69 educators graduate from Education Management Certificate Course

Sixty-nine educators from Regions Four (Demerara-Mahaica) and Eight (Potaro-Siparuni), on Tuesday graduated from the Ministry of Education’s Education Management Certificate Course.

The educators, who began the course in 2019, were celebrated for completing the two-year course which was created to improve the management skills of educators across Guyana at a small graduation ceremony hosted in the Queen’s College auditorium.

These included 67 educators in the Region Four Education district and two from Region Eight’s Education district.

The programme was executed through the National Centre for Educational Resource Development (NCERD). It is a specialised course designed to improve teachers’ leadership skills and is open to Heads of Departments, Senior Teachers, and Head Teachers.
The course was completed over a two-year period, from 2019 to 2021.
Delivering the feature address, NCERD Director Quenita Walrond-Lewis encouraged the educators to be the leaders to rebuild, recapture and restore the education sector.
She noted that one of the key factors influencing effectiveness is the nature of leadership and management. Hence, quality leadership and management are fundamental factors in changing the status quo.
The NCERD Director highlighted that proper leadership skills are needed now more than ever to guide students on the path to becoming valuable and contributing citizens.
She urged them to adapt to change in the prevailing environment. She pointed out that over the last few years, the education sector has been transformed, particularly by the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic not only highlighted several challenges in the sector but also provided the opportunity for more creative means of education delivery.
The course saw two educators sharing the Valedictorian award. School Boards Directors, Deonarine Hardat and Jessica Goodchild in their remarks encouraged their batch mates to be an example of excellence towards the holistic development of the nation’s children.
The graduating teachers were from nursery, primary and secondary schools across the education district.