Looking for top teachers

 KINGSTON, Jamaica – The search has begun to identify and award excellent educators, islandwide, as part of the Jamaica Teaching Council’s (JTC) efforts to reward excellence. The awards will be part of activities to celebrate International Teachers’ Day on October 5. “We hope that our Jamaican public will come out and celebrate our teachers,” Director of the JTC, Dr Winsome Gordon, said.She added that education officers were already on the search for excellent teachers and that this year was special, because the Council would be offering an award, in each of the 65 quality education circles, for special education teachers, to encourage them.“The education officers are responsible for identifying the teachers, because they work with them but they are going to look at the work of those teachers, their results and results do not necessarily mean that the students are getting A’s, because we have to look at the cognitive performance and the affected domain and we have to look at how children are shaped by those teachers,” she said. “We look for planning, innovation, creative ways of teaching… any research that the teacher may have carried out having identified a problem in the classroom,” she explained. (Jamaica Observer)