Engaging Students Post COVID-19

A great task lies ahead for educators once school reopens in September. Students had spent months trying to adapt to the virtual learning environment but in a matter of months, they will back in the classroom. Education Minister Karl Samuda says educators will now have to find new methods of engaging students in the classroom.

“When they can’t quite understand as they would have been able to if they were attending classes, you would have to reach out and be more patient. We have to get Guidance counselors to be engaged with them because no matter how simple it appears, they have been affected.”

Samuda was speaking at Tulloch Primary in Bog Walk, St Catherine. The school is the latest beneficiary of internet service from ReadyTv. Samuda says he is aware that many children were not able to get access to the internet and might not be up to date with subjects.

“We have alot of work to do and we have to pay particular attention to it. I want to thank the teachers who have diligently reached out and on whom everything depends.”

Meanwhile, Chief Executive Officer of ReadyTv Chris Dehring says the technology that will be used to provide internet services at Tulloch primary is state of the art.

“What Covid-19 has done is to expose the fact that we Jamaica is a small third world country and our infrastructure is just that but it gives us the impetus to improve it and certainly the Ministry has embarked upon that in a number of ways.”

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