Education Ministry to enhance monitoring of classrooms, teaching – DCEO

Deputy Chief Education Officer (Administration), Fazia Baksh has announced that the Education Ministry will enhance its monitoring of classroom activities and teachers’ performance, in a bid to achieve improved results in the future.
She made this disclosure during the recent announcement of National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) results, citing that teachers are responsible for developing the abilities of children.
“In an effort to ensure improved results incrementally, there will be more emphasis on the monitoring and supervision of classroom teaching and teachers’ continuous professional development. Teachers need to be fostered continuously to achieve the required competencies because teachers have roles to grow and nurture students’ abilities professionally,” Baksh revealed.
Added to this will be refurbishments to not just the physical settings but the curriculum. The Ministry has been aiming to achieve equity among learners regardless of the respective variables involved.
The DCEO posited, “There will be infrastructural enhancement and upgrades to the curriculum so that every child has equal access to learning regardless of the school the attend. Such strategic interventions by the Ministry of Education will auger well for the improvement in performance of our students regardless of race, class or culture across Guyana.”
In 2018, the curriculum reform process commenced after it was found that the framework was not reviewed in some three decades.
The Cyril Potter College of Education (CPCE) has also committed to having 100 per cent trained teachers in classrooms across Guyana by 2025 – a goal which was set in the Education Ministry’s strategic plan. Guyana’s teaching capacity received a timely boost earlier in the year when over 800 persons graduated from the college in 2022, marking the largest group of graduates in the institution’s history.
Two categories of untrained teachers currently exist in the education system: those who are eligible for admission at CPCE and those who are not. The latter is being upgraded, so that they can enter the college programme.
Also, by 2025, the Education Ministry is working on achieving universal secondary education, bridging the divide in education quality across the country by providing students with proper facilities to participate in additional subject areas.
It signed several multimillion-dollar contracts to rebuild Christ Church Secondary School, St George’s High School, and St Mary’s Secondary School.
Last week, contracts totalling over $3.4 billion were signed for the construction of the Tuschen, and Hosororo Secondary Schools in Regions Three (Essequibo Islands-West Demerara) and One (Barima-Waini), respectively.
Most recently, the US$5.15 million Good Hope Secondary School on the East Coast of Demerara and the GY$585 million Abram Zuil Secondary School on the Essequibo Coast were also commissioned. (G12)