Adequate training, guidance urged in Education Week Launch
Education Minister Myron V. Walwyn said students always needed to be shown support and be guided in the right direction. He expressed a belief in the adequate training of early child care providers and stated the importance of moulding young minds as being integral to a child’s subsequent academic performance.
“We want to ensure that when those young students move on to primary and secondary (school) that there is a strong foundation upon which we can build,” Hon. Walwyn said.
In giving students the best chance of success, he added, the government will continue to ensure the training of public educators and to also invest in them so that they can lead the ‘culture of excellence’.
While urging the need for a continuous competitive environment, the Education Minister stated, “We can no longer leave (children) in the shadows and bound them to a life of inequality and social repression… we can no longer ignore the needs of these children.”
Hon. Walwyn noted that our young people do not need another hero, but instead, “we need to help them find a way home to prosperity, their full potential and through literacy and education, we need all our citizens to find just that.”
“The cornerstone to the development of any country or nation is education,” said Acting Premier Dr The Hon. Kedrick D. Pickering on the occasion of the launch of Education Week 2013.
He assured that Government’s commitment to education is very real while adding that education accounts for some 18.71 percent of the government’s budget. Dr Pickering exhorted students in attendance to be better today than they were yesterday.
This year’s Education Week Theme is ‘Creating A Culture of Excellence Through Prevention and Intervention’ and with this in mind, he urged that persons seize every educational opportunity to learn, develop and grow so that a place could be guaranteed in “this competitive world” whether personally or professionally.
According to the Acting Premier, “If we allow ourselves to become divided, especially along political lines, then we are going to destroy ourselves in the process.” Consequently, he added, we must not see disagreement as being negative, but rather, as being positive and a way to enhance not only ourselves, but the world around us. He pointed to the current Secondary School debates and said there was much to be learnt when we delve into the causes and effects of things in an effort to effectively address them.
Meanwhile, Acting Chief Education Officer, Mrs Jillian Douglas-Phillips said, “We must be vigilant, we must revisit and we must keep abreast of the best practices in education through reading and action research…”
She asked rhetorically, whether educators are catering to gifted students of the Territory. “Do we know who these gifted students are? Are we ensuring that learning is taking place or are we just trying to get to the end of the curriculum?” she asked amidst some other searching questions for educators in the Territory.
She encouraged parents to remain alert and observe their children both at work and at play. “What you think is of little importance, may be the root to a problem, that with time, can be an impediment to learning,” she offered.
She also urged parents to discuss any concerns that arose about their children with guidance counsellors at their schools.
There were also several dances, skits and songs from students of various schools around the Territory that offered much entertainment to the audience at the opening ceremony of Education Week.
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21 Responses to “Adequate training, guidance urged in Education Week Launch”
How much longer are we going to let Myron send the country to hell in a hand basket????…time to march people two more years of this is just too much!!!!
Feeling a bit exposed are we?
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