Teachers with only Associate's Degrees or less told to ‘upskill’ themselves
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The Acting CEO was speaking during Professional Day 2024 on Monday, August 26, 2024, when she revealed that one of the Ministry of Education’s main goals is to transition away from positions held by those with only an Associate’s Degree or less.
“So teachers in Grade 1 and 2 positions, we encourage you all to seize every opportunity to upskill yourselves in preparation for these changes,” she said at the event held at Eileene L. Parsons Auditorium, H. Lavity Stoutt Community College (HLSCC) in Paraquita Bay.
Opportunities for advancement are there
Crabbe also informed that HLSCC will be rolling out its Bachelor of Education Programme in 2025. As well, Walden University, a partner of both the Education Ministry and the BVI Teachers Union, is working on a special programme for teachers from the VI.
Professional development & licensing
Educators were also assured the ministry will continue to support their professional development efforts, ensuring they all have access to the required 60 hours of training through the Institute of Education at HLSCC.
Mrs Crabbe further revealed that the Education Ministry is “actively aligning” its regional standards to allow VI educators to obtain licenses that are recognised locally, regionally and internationally.
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26 Responses to “Teachers with only Associate's Degrees or less told to ‘upskill’ themselves”
time to break free from this crap
There's enough funds & tech to have a community chicken coop or even a wild coop system where you place scraps inside and the chickens lay in structures. If that is a dumb idea OK, we can come up with at least 1 good idea.
Community is what fed people before... now every man wants to get educated to do it themselves. When the dollar crashes & financial market upturns, people are starving despite education. Following the dollar we have shifted from manipulation of nature to manipulating that dollar out of a next person's hand.
Meanwhile someone is out there printing the paper relentlessly for free while we grind our lives away. Try to trade paper money with a ancient person and they will say what the hell am I supposed to turn this into? Fire, toilet paper?
I was fortunate to attend Erdiston Teachers college In Barbados and until THE FUNDAMENTALS of Subject. Matter. Predicate is understood along with Classroom management; There will always be the challenge of lesson Preparation/ Delivery / Application and Testing . Degrees are great —TEACHERS NEED TO BE TRAINED as Doctors do INTERNSHIP
This idea that you can take high school graduates, give them a couple courses at the community college and plop them in the classroom is a cheap-out. Hire and pay qualified staff.