Project Description
During the last five years, the teaching and learning process within the Turks and Caicos Islands has seen unprecedented disruptions caused by hurricanes and the more recent COVID-19 pandemic. As a response to possible learning losses, The Department of Education, in collaboration with CDB, CARICOM, and OECS, are working to realign learning and create educational leaders who can create and use diagnostic assessments to identify gaps in learning and develop school-based intervention plans.
The Turks and Caicos Islands Literacy and Numeracy Recovery and Enhancement Programme is guided by the objectives of CDB, CARICOM, OECS Learning Recovery, and Enhancement Programme (Let's Reap) with added objectives from the Ministry of Education TCI.
Project Components
- Leadership and accountability
- Management and communication
- Regional and national partnerships
- Teacher Support and Facilitate Teacher Professional Development
- Diagnostic testing and student learning plans
- SPED, specialist teachers and educational psychologists / counsellors
- Resources and curriculum
- Support for parents and caregivers
- Community organisations
Activities relating to the nine components will be evident in various projects and activities coming out of the Department of Education. Stay Tune!!
Why Literary and Numeracy
A resilient foundation in literacy and numeracy is critical for every child and young person. It supports their ability to participate in education, reach their fullest potential, and contribute effusively to their respective communities.
Literacy and numeracy reinforce other complex skills, such as the evolution from 'learning to read' to 'reading to learn, allowing children to engage with the entire school curriculum.
- Literacy is defined as students' ability to interpret and create texts with appropriateness, accuracy, confidence, fluency, and efficacy for learning in and out of school and participating in the workplace and community.
- Numeracy is the knowledge, skills, behaviours, and dispositions that students need to use mathematics in a wide range of situations. (source: www.education.vic.gov.au)
Let's REAP! seeks to "Recover, Improve and Transform education in the Caribbean."
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