Georgetown: With effect from July 21 the National Centre for Education Resource Development (NCERD) commenced its Continuous Professional Development (CPD) courses for teachers across the country.
The programme which is now entering its fourth year is designed to enhance teachers’ capacity to deliver the school’s curriculum. The programme targets teachers at the Nursery, Primary and Secondary levels.
More three hundred teachers were in attendance at an opening ceremony, held at NCERD for Georgetown and Regions 3, 4 and 5 teachers. The gathering of educators were addressed by Mrs Jennifer Cumberbatch, Director of NCERD and Melicita Bovell, Technical Advisor to the Ministry of Education.
According to the Director of NCERD, Jennifer Cumberbatch, the courses are being delivered to refresh teachers’ knowledge, improve content areas and introduce new methodologies necessary for the effective and efficient teaching/ learning process. It forms part of capacity building and support activities to meet the needs of the teachers.
This upgrading programme will target the following subjects in the school’s curriculum -Literacy, Mathematics, Special Needs Education, Classroom Management, Teaching of Composition and Comprehension, Guidance and Counselling, Drama and Physical Education, Portuguese, Multigrade Teaching/Differentiated Learning and Health and Family Life Education among others.
This year the programme will be expanded to cover all ten administrative regions and Georgetown. Sessions will be held at North West Secondary School in Region 1, Anna Regina Secondary School in Region 2, St Aloysius Primary in Region 6, Learning Resource Centre Region 7, Parmakatoi Secondary School Region 8, Department of Education and Arapaima Primary School in Region 9 , Mc Kenzie Primary Region 10. NCERD and St Stanislaus College will host those teachers from Regions 3, 4, 5 and Georgetown.
This is the first time that NCERD has its July/August CPD programme in all the regions across Guyana. A total of approximately one thousand nursery, primary and secondary teachers will participate in the programme this year.
The programme will be delivered by team of instructors drawn from a pool of experienced head teachers, senior and qualified teachers in Nursery and primary and secondary and officers of the Ministry of Education who have had several years of teaching experience. The programme will be held from July 21- 25 and from August 4-8, 2014.|
