Joint Board of Teacher Education/Institute of
Education Projects
Funded projects increase the capacity of the Institute of Education
(IOE) and the Joint Board of Teacher Education (JBTE) to
- Promote professional development in teacher education;
- Increase the output of research of the Institute on teacher
education;
- Introduce innovations and support reforms in teacher education
and other parts of the education sector;
- Provide affordable material to support the teacher education
curriculum;
- Revise and update syllabuses and curricula;
- Respond to needs and emergencies expeditiously.
Members of staff of the IOE direct these funded projects and take
full responsibility for the quality of the projects and for their
implementation. Project coordinators, consultants, and other project
staff are employed from project funds. The JBTE/IOE manage several major
projects designed to facilitate, inform and support early childhood,
primary and secondary education by reforming or strengthening teacher
education. They include the following:
Reform of Secondary Education (ROSE)—Teacher Training Component
(1994-1999)
Funded by the World Bank and the Government of Jamaica. Directed by
Errol Miller.
This project focused on providing in-service teacher training to over
5,000 teachers of grades 7-9 in 124 project schools. The aim was to
provide teachers with the knowledge needed to implement the revised
lower secondary curriculum of the Ministry of Education.
Child Focus I (1996-1999)
Funded by the World Bank. Directed jointly by Rose Davies (Institute
of Education) and Janet Brown (Caribbean Child Development Centre).
This project established an Early Childhood Resource Centre at the
UWI under the aegis of the Institute of Education; developed a training
and accreditation system for early childhood workers at levels 1—3; and
developed a manual of early childhood development occupational standards
in collaboration with the National Council on Technical and Vocational
Education and Training (NCTVET) and HEART Trust/ National Training
Agency.
Child Focus II (2001-2004)
Funded by the Inter-American Development Bank. Directed by Sian
Williams, Caribbean Child Development Centre; consultant, Rose Davies,
Institute of Education.
A continuation of the work initiated in Child Focus I, this project
funded the development and implementation of a Master of Education
Programme in Early Childhood Development at the School of Education,
UWI; the preparation and publishing of a new resource text,Learning
Outcomes for Early Childhood Development in the Caribbean,by two IOE
members of staff, Donna Chin Fatt and Rose Davies.
Improving Educational Quality II (2000-2002)
Funded by the United States Agency for International Development. Directed
by Errol Miller. Other members of staff of the IOE who servedas
consultants were Marceline Collins-Figueroa, Vileitha Davis-Morrison,
Clement Lambert and Ceva McPherson-Kerr.
The project’s objective was to help create the tools for building
skills and knowledge among pre-service teachers that would help them to
successfully utilize the new primary school curriculum being implemented
in Jamaican schools. This project focused on four areas: language arts,
mathematics, science and social studies.
Primary Education Support Project—Revision of Teachers’ College
Primary Curriculum (2002-2004)
Funded by the Inter-American Development Bank. Directed by
ErrolMiller. IOE consultants were Vilma Charlton, Hyacinth Evans,
NadineScott and Joan Tucker. Other consultants were Rev. Ambrose Findlay
andBrian Heap, adjunct external examiners.
The aim of this project was to revise six subjects in the Jamaican
teachers’ college primary curriculum to incorporate the knowledge and
competencies demanded by the revised curriculum being implemented by the
Ministry of Education, Jamaica.
Sustainable Teacher Environmental Education Project of the
Joint Board of Teacher Education and the Environmental Action
Programme (ENACT) of Jamaica (2000-2004)
Sponsored by the Canadian International Development Agency and the
Government of Jamaica. Directed by Marceline Collins-Figueroa. Project
coordinators were Rose Davies of the Institute of Education, Lincoln
Phipps of Shortwood Teachers’ College and Doreen Parris of Church
Teachers College.
This project focused on establishing environmental education in
teachers colleges. Syllabus revision was carried out in the JBTE
Secondary Science Programme and the Early Childhood Programme. The
project pioneered a whole-college approach that led to the “greening” of
two entire college environments through curricular and extra-curricular
activities.
Sustainable Teacher Environmental Education Project II (STEEP II,
2005-2007)
Funded by the governments of Canada and Jamaica. Directed by
Marceline Collins-Figueroa The project seeks to incorporate
environmental education for sustainable development (EESD) into the
policies of JBTE and teachers’ colleges and spread the whole-college
approach to EESD, which was pioneered during STEEP I, into other
colleges.
Caribbean Centre of Excellence for Teacher Training (CCETT)
(2002-2009)
Funded by the United States Agency for International Development.
Directors: Errol Miller (2002-2006), and Stafford Griffith (2006- ); Deputy Directors: Marcia Stewart (UWI, Mona),
and Arthur Richardson (UWI, Cave Hill).
This centre is one of three established in Latin America and the
Caribbean under the Summit of the Americas Initiative. It seeks to
provide innovative leadership to strengthen reading instruction in the
early grades. CCETT uses a training-of-trainers approach to increase the
number of teachers that it will impact, provides a clearinghouse of
teaching materials, uses information and communications technology to
facilitate information-sharing among institutions, and increases the
scope of teachers’ access to training. The project began its operations
in Jamaica, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, expanding to
Belize and Guyana in the second year.
JBTE/Global Fund Project (2005-2007)
Directed by Marcia Stewart and Vileitha Davis-Morrison; involves all
the staff of the Institute of Education.
The project aims to develop, implement and institutionalize a Health
and Family Life Education HFLE: HIV/AIDS curriculum for student
teachers; implement whole-college and outreach approaches to HFLE:
HIV/AIDS education in four colleges; develop teaching/learning resources
to facilitate the infusion of HIV/AIDS education concepts, themes and
activities into JBTE curricula.
Materials Production Unit
The Materials Production Unit (MPU) (1995-1999; 1999-present) is a
project of the Joint Board of Teacher Education. It was established with
seed funding from the Multicare Foundation. The original project was
intended to determine the feasibility of publishing low-cost,
high-quality
textbooks pertinent to Caribbean culture for students attending
teachers’
colleges and other tertiary institutions by establishing a small
publishing
unit. The project was a success, and MPU continues to provide low-cost
textbooks and other materials for use in teachers’ colleges and schools.
The materials are written or developed by members of staff of the IOE
and of teachers’ colleges. The MPU is managed by Barbara Matalon |
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