Teacher Education Institute coming next year — Premier Fahie
A teacher education institute is said to be one of the main focuses of the Andrew Fahie-led administration in the coming year.
The Premier made this announcement during his budget speech yesterday and said it will be among a number of other educational programmes for the sector, some of which were hampered by COVID-19 this year.
Premier Fahie said the Institute will have responsibility for teacher training at various levels to include new teachers. It will also offer professional development for teachers and administrators at the ministry and school levels, in addition to a teacher licensing programme.
According to the Premier, the Institute will be in place by September 2022.
He said professional development sessions on the creation of and use of online assessments, differentiated instructions, and online lesson planning and versatility in the use of the various online platforms were conducted during 2021.
Such efforts, he said, will continue next year to further strengthen the teaching and learning process and student outcomes.
More math and literacy programmess coming
Premier Fahie said the Ministry of Education expanded its Reading Literacy Programme to Grade 4 in September 2020 and to Grade 5 in September 2021 and promised that by September 2022 grades 6 and 7 will be also be added to the programme.
By September 2022 the review and adjustment of the early childhood programme for grades ‘K’ and ‘1’ should be completed to include more scheduled language and math literacy and the integration of science and social studies concepts into the language and math lessons, the Premier promised.
The Minister for Education, Dr Natalio Wheatley will elaborate on these and other works regarding education at a later time.
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The rest of us should also go on a sick out in order to get stuff done in this country
@ Heckler, come with us on the road, we rooting for you but you need to be present!
This is not new. This was going on at HLSCC for years. The question is, what happened to that programme. We like to pretend that these are ‘Eureka’ moments, after the foundation that was layed before has been destroyed. We will continue to have these challenges when there is no acknowledgement of our history. A society who refuses to learn from it’s past is doomed to failure.
Teaching is no longer an attractive job. Many of the current teachers intend to seek opportunities in other professions. How do you plan to make teaching opportunities more inviting? Perhaps some thought should be given to this question as restarting a training school will be pointless if there are few pull factors.
Andrew, Andrew, Andrew. How much longer do you think you can go on fooling the people of these islands? You know you don’t care anything about our children’s education. You don’t care about anything or anyone so long as you can continue to r**e our country. As far as you are concerned, Fahie for Fahie and nay God help everyone else. Shut up and go sidung.