Education Minister urges teachers to embrace new paradigm
Teachers must continue to reimagine education and embrace a new paradigm, Education Minister Sharie de Castro urged.
While speaking at the recent Educators Professional Day forum, the Education Minister said this new paradigm must also celebrate diversity and accommodate various learning styles.
Minister de Castro stated that reimagining education in the territory has been at the core of her ministry’s endeavours.
She argued that educators must ensure each child’s light is nurtured and encouraged to shine brightly. To accomplish this, educators must discard the outdated notion of education as a rigid structure where every child must fit a specific mould.
“Education should not take a one-size-fits-all approach,” de Castro said. “It should be a personalised journey that caters to the unique needs, strengths, and passions of each student. We must recognise that children are not uniform products on an assembly line, but individual stars that shine with distinct brilliance.”
She called on educators to cast aside the notion of schools as factories and students as products.
Such a view, she said, restricts innovation, stifles flexibility, and diminishes the uniqueness of each learner.
“Instead of doing what we have done in the past, let us embrace our schools as gardens, where the individuality of each student is recognised, cultivated, and allowed to flourish,” the Education Minister urged.
She noted that once educators commit to doing this, schools around the territory will blossom as educators nurture creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving, recognising in the process that each young mind has something extraordinary to offer.
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Does she even know what she is trying to say?
Kids graduating from school with:
1 – the ability read and properly write (and not just in the present tense).
2 – basic maths skills.
3 – a positive work ethic.
CAR REPAIR, CREDIT CARD AND PHONE BILLS?
Embrace it like how her boyfriend embraced the covid grant to pay his credit card bill and how her mother embrace the covid money to repair her care while she was already making 10, 000 per month from a consultancy and her pension combined.
FIANCE’ GETTING BELONGERS BEFORE THEM TIME?
Perhaps the education minister needs to ask her friends and family (including the boyfriend whose name was conveniently blacked out) to hand back the money she gave them for now reason so we can use that money to better education.
As long as she is not taking blame for STEALING from the people and making it right, she should keep her mouth shut and simply resign.
This lady has lost touch with BVI reality.
Sl**ande and she are running a race to see who could be the worse minister for education.
sl**ande win that easy
2nd Term around is worst than the 1st. True colours and characteristics simply shining through. Mr. Dawson should have been selected for Ministry of Education and Culture. This lady should have continued to be a minister in training as a junior minister or back bencher. Whom ever is guiding, consulting or pushing her, it’s demeaning. Reading is fundamental and necessary in every life. Where is the encouragement of such in S.T.E.A.M.? Having chess integrated into school curriculum is the same as when a former Education minister said that he was going to make Mandarin a part of Primary Schools curriculum. What some persons are interested in personally should not bare relevance to our future leaders.
The new paradigm is the same as the ole one