Educator urges ongoing training for teachers

After parking their canoes, the children of Wallaba Primary head to school.

A well-known Guyanese educator and poet is advocating continual classroom training for teachers as a means of improving the country’s education system, since teachers are the foot soldiers of the system and if they are not good at what they do then the system will fail.

“Our teachers are not trained on the ground. I am not talking about Cyril Potter College of Education [CPCE]. I am talking about in-service, in-house training in the school,” Peter Jailall said in a recent interview with the Sunday Stabroek.

Jailall, who has over 42 years of teaching