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1000 teachers to be trained for online platform 

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April 21, 2021
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Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand

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Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand has welcomed the launch of the online learning platform for the delivery of education, which would see some 1,000 teachers being trained initially.
Speaking during Tuesday’s virtual launch, Minister Manickchand said the COVID-19 pandemic showed education systems around the world how unprepared they were to deliver education in non-traditional ways.

Manickchand noted that the pandemic has forced the ministry to adapt.
“We have looked at every possible way of delivering education that is not traditional and by traditional, I mean a trained teacher standing in the classroom delivering education using a blackboard and chalk.
We have had to refashion our Learning Channel to deliver education according to the curriculum in a timetabled way to all who can receive that channel. We have had to look at how we use the radio which is still the main way in which people communicate especially in the deep hinterland regions of our country.”

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The ministry also produced, printed and distributed worksheets to 170,000 students across the country in only a few weeks.  Minister Manickchand said the Ministry found a serious deficit in the number of tablets and devices in the student and teacher population, and lack of internet connectivity with bandwidth that would allow teaching and reception countrywide.
“We particularly began to build out smart classrooms with the entire facility cameras, moving cameras, screens television screens internet connectivity with the hope that we can use the method of from one to many.
Education and the way we deliver it and the way we engage with our stakeholders, parents’ teachers’ students are going to change tremendously and I don’t believe it’s going to take very long,” she said.
The Minister said the lessons learned over Covid has allowed the Ministry to reflect on all the procedures previously employed, determining what can be kept, as well as provide the opportunity to expand, learn and teach in new ways.
Ms. Quenita Walrond-Lewis, Director of National Centre for Education Resource Development in her presentation said the Ministry’s online initiative is supported by the Global Partnership for Education, UNICEF and consultants from the Tablet Academy of the United Kingdom.

She noted that the initiative is a component of the COVID-19 Accelerated Funding Project (AFP), which seeks to support the continuity of learning for pupils across Guyana in whatever form.
Ms. Walrond-Lewis said the initial phase will target 1,000 Grade Seven teachers and their students in the four core subject areas. The roll-out would involve training 60 master teachers on the platform, who would then train and support other teachers in a cascading model. To facilitate this, these educators would be given laptops with the accompanying software – the Microsoft Office 365, a three-software solution.

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The system will cater for teacher and students notes assessments, group work meetings and live classes while allowing the Ministry to set security policies for students and teachers.
The forum also heard the Tablet Academy was selected through an open bidding process. It trains more than 36,000 teachers annually, supports more than 1,500 schools and provide students with STEM enrichment workshops in Minecraft, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, which are delivered remotely. On Wednesday there will be a free webinar between 10-11 am titled ‘Art of the Possible’ which will introduce teachers to Microsoft themes and their uses. (DPI)



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