This story provides a good example of the variety of ways in which Canada-Caribbean cooperation in the area of education can take place.
“I feel strongly that, anytime teachers can join and learn from each other, we become stronger as a union.” That is how Hylin MacLaren, a Canadian primary teacher, summarised her experience participating in workshops in Guyana in the framework of the Canadian Teachers’ Federation (CTF) Project Overseas.
Julian Cambridge, Vice-President at the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) in charge of training/professional development sessions, confirmed the success of the partnership with CTF in the framework of Project Overseas.
In July 2023, Canadian teachers and Guyanese colleagues from the GTU worked together for two weeks to provide local teachers attending workshops with ready-to-use activities, ideas and strategies, as well as the means to work with material locally available or with no material at all. “The fact that teachers can leave the workshops and implement those activities, those ideas in their classrooms the next day makes this cooperation development experience a sustainable one”, MacLaren underlined.
Since 1962, Canadian teachers have collaborated with colleagues in developing countries through the CTF’s Project Overseas to improve teaching and learning, and to promote equitable, high quality, publicly funded education for all. In 2023, CTF sent 15 teams of four Canadian teachers to 12 different countries, for a total of 60 cooperating teachers. MacLaren was one of them. For her third project – her first one happened in 2017 –, she went to the Rupununi region, in the south-west of Guyana, bordering the Brazilian Amazon.
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Education International Web posting, January 12, 2024
Excellent initiative
Congratulations.
Did you ever consider partnering with the Bahamas Union of Teachers.?
If not please consider same.
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