15,000 Caribbean Educators to get Training to recover from COVID

By Sherrica Thompson

Staff Writer

The Caribbean, September 16, 2022 – Approximately 15,000 educators in the region will be trained under a newly implemented programme, the Learning Recovery and Enhancement Programme (Let’s REAP) to assist students in overcoming the learning losses caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The training programme, expected to begin the first week in October, will improve the competencies of five cohorts of educators in three modules over two years.

This initiative is being facilitated by the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat, and the OECS Commission.

Upon successful completion, participants will receive a certificate from the University of the West Indies (UWI) Joint Boards of Teacher Education.

The 45-hour course will focus on three core components of Let’s REAP: Leadership and Accountability, Assessment and Differentiated Instruction, and Communities of Practice (CoP).

The Let’s REAP programme was launched in July 2021, and it had input from the CARICOM Regional Network of Planning Officers (RNPO), the Caribbean Union of Teachers (CUT), and the Caribbean Association for Principals of Secondary Schools (CAPSS), and the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC).