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WHEN walking down the street it is difficult to avoid listening to people in conversation as they walk by and it is equally difficult to avoid noticing how the highly qualified Head Mistress of St Ignatius Secondary School has resigned because of flagrant disrespect for her by a bad teacher. I humbly appeal to all education officials to pull their weight in ensuring that this never happens again as the Head Mistress is returned to this school so the delivery of quality education can continue.
Hundreds of students of the St Ignatius Secondary School on November 23, 2012 protested the sudden resignation of the head mistress and a request made by two other teachers for immediate transfer following the ongoing problem with the disrespectful teacher at the school.
I was pleased that the Technical Adviser to the Minister of Education Mr. Olato Sam intervened and resolved the matter in favour of the hard-working headmistress, so there will be no repetition of this kind of attitude by any other disrespectful teacher at any other school.
For progress to be made at St Ignatius Secondary School the “desk attitude” of this particular rude and disrespectful teacher will certainly have to change.
The Senior Education Officers in Lethem and Georgetown will have to visit and host monthly reading tents for these trainee teachers in the depressed communities, including the hinterland regions. It is only through initiatives such as these that tangible results will be achieved in improving work relations between Head Masters/Head Mistresses and teachers.
The government has spent close to $2.5 billion over the past years to improve learning resources in the education sector. There is still inadequate human resources as a major constraint in the hinterland and we cannot allow a highly qualified and trained headmistress to resign because of one teacher. The use of innovative technology will address some of these problems. This school has a distance-learning programme targeting students from primary to tertiary level through this head mistress. This school, through its information technology programme, intends to make about 50 per cent of primary, secondary school Amerindian students computer literate in the next five years.
The delivery of quality education requires quality teachers and continuous professional development. As I stated above, it was clear that nothing or little was done in St Ignatius Secondary School to address the needs of the headmistress.
Emphasis is now being placed by Mr Olato Sam on ensuring that this never happens again in the education system and support the performance at the secondary level to improve the quality of education offered at this school.
Hundreds of students of the St Ignatius Secondary School on November 23, 2012 protested the sudden resignation of the head mistress and a request made by two other teachers for immediate transfer following the ongoing problem with the disrespectful teacher at the school.
I was pleased that the Technical Adviser to the Minister of Education Mr. Olato Sam intervened and resolved the matter in favour of the hard-working headmistress, so there will be no repetition of this kind of attitude by any other disrespectful teacher at any other school.
For progress to be made at St Ignatius Secondary School the “desk attitude” of this particular rude and disrespectful teacher will certainly have to change.
The Senior Education Officers in Lethem and Georgetown will have to visit and host monthly reading tents for these trainee teachers in the depressed communities, including the hinterland regions. It is only through initiatives such as these that tangible results will be achieved in improving work relations between Head Masters/Head Mistresses and teachers.
The government has spent close to $2.5 billion over the past years to improve learning resources in the education sector. There is still inadequate human resources as a major constraint in the hinterland and we cannot allow a highly qualified and trained headmistress to resign because of one teacher. The use of innovative technology will address some of these problems. This school has a distance-learning programme targeting students from primary to tertiary level through this head mistress. This school, through its information technology programme, intends to make about 50 per cent of primary, secondary school Amerindian students computer literate in the next five years.
The delivery of quality education requires quality teachers and continuous professional development. As I stated above, it was clear that nothing or little was done in St Ignatius Secondary School to address the needs of the headmistress.
Emphasis is now being placed by Mr Olato Sam on ensuring that this never happens again in the education system and support the performance at the secondary level to improve the quality of education offered at this school.
