More than fifteen hundred new teachers graduated this morning from the Cyril Potter College of Education (CPCE) in various disciplines.

The 90th graduation ceremony which was held at the Guyana National Stadium saw a marked increase in the number of trained teachers from the Hinterland.

Some 1,297 women and 205 men graduated in five disciplines. 602 teachers graduated in Primary education, with an additional 447 graduating in early childcare.

Further, 169 teachers graduated from the Secondary academic programme, and a further 251 graduated from the pre-vocational programme and 32 from the GTE/TTE programme.

Another 51 teachers received training in special education needs and disabilities.

Education Minister Priya Manickhand urged the teachers to deliver higher quality of education to students with the training they received.

She said the country now has more trained teachers in every Region, and the more than 1500 teachers were graduating at a time when the country needs them the most.

“Every trained teacher that we put in front the classroom ought to give us a higher quality of delivery of education to the children, because in any large enough component of human beings, you will find those who are excellent and interested in learning and doing better and bringing out the best of those under their care and you will find some lazy people,” the Minister of Education says.

The Minister said expanding the CPCE has impacted education delivery in the classroom, adding that it has inspired the Government to continue with large investments in training and development for teachers. All of these measures, she explained, will ultimately result in smaller class sizes leading to more individualized teaching and more specialities.

“So, I hope you understand that the large training that we are investing in are having impact on we teach and the quality of education that we are supposed deliver,” the Education Minister stated.

Meanwhile, Vice Principal of CPCE, Ms. Tasmin Henry, said the introduction of technology at the college has had a positive impact in getting more teachers into the college. She noted that teachers from far flung Regions who, up until a few years ago, had no chance of attending the CPCE are among those now graduating. 

“Through these initiatives, teacher trainees at Monkey mountain for example are now accessing the college’s Moodle platform . Additionally, systems have been instituted for the delivery of learning materials and resources to CPCE centres across the country, specifically those with limited access to the college’s learning management system,”

The teachers were urged not to be distracted by ‘outside noise’ but to strive to ensure that practice what was taught to them in the classroom.

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