In its quest to address the shortage of science teachers in the public education sector, the Ministry of Education has introduced a programme to ramp-up its quota of qualified teachers in this regard.This move, according to the Ministry’s Science Coordinator, Petal Punalall-Jettoo, comes in recognition of the fact that the most important resources are the qualified science teachers. “As a country we are short of teachers… even as a Region we are short”.She said that the challenge is not unique to the Region,Wholesale Jerseys China, as it obtains internationally, even in developed countries like the United Kingdom and the United States. She noted that there is a global demand,Wholesale Adidas Hockey Jerseys, “so our science teachers will get the pull to go elsewhere where salaries are much better than here.”With a view to dealing with this challenge, Punalall-Jettoo said that the Ministry had strategically started looking at the data from the University of Guyana and the Cyril Potter College of Education, where it was observed that sufficient graduate teachers in science are not being produced.Moreover,Cheap NHL Jerseys, moves were made to introduce a non-graduate programme for science teachers within the school system who were willing to teach science.The programme is so designed that the Caribbean Examinations Council’s syllabi for Chemistry, Physics and Biology are used, whereby they are divided into modules and “we teach the teachers the same content at a higher level and they experiment so that they can go back and teach the children the required content.”This undertaking, according to Punalall-Jettoo,China NFL Jerseys, was of utmost importance “because waiting for us to be supplied with graduate teachers,Wholesale Jerseys From China, we will be losing a lot of our children in that period. So this is the initiative taken by the Ministry to help to solve the problem of a lack of science teachers.”According to the Science Coordinator,Cheap Jerseys Free Shipping, with the advent of technology, there are many ideas that can be explored in terms of connecting classrooms,Cheap Jerseys Online, even with international consultants, which allow for easy access to skills and knowledge. As such she noted that science today is not merely limited to the walls of the classroom.“It is really giving us solutions with respect to where we can go as a country in terms of the Science Education Programme.”The non-graduate programme, which spans a period of 18 months, was kicked into gear in 2009 and an initial batch has since graduated and bolstered the Science-teaching capacity of the education sector.A second batch has since commenced the programme in Regions Two and Six.