The Guyana In-service Distance Education Programme

This programme was developed by the Ministry of Education to increase the competence of the large number of untrained, underqualified junior secondary and community high school teachers who need to upgrade their knowledge and skills in Mathematics, Integrated Science and English Language. Thus, in its initial delivery, it focused on these subjects and Teaching Methods. At present it focuses on Mathematics, Integrated Science, English Language and Social Studies. The distance mode was selected because the school system could not afford to lose from the classroom at any one time, the large number of teachers involved. http://www.col.org/SiteCollectionDocuments/2_conf_proc_Anderson.pdf