Education Perspective (Express newspaper columns)

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    The 21st Century School
    (Daily Express, 2007) Yamin-Ali, Jennifer
    This article examines the strategies that should be employed by the modern school in order to better manage the achievement of professional standards and to meet the increased expectations of stakeholders
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    The ABC of Violence
    (Daily Express, 2004-02) Herbert, Susan
    This article reflects on the fate of children who exist in conditions of abuse and squalor in their home environment, and who enter the school environment from this background. It provides a list (from A to Z) of the actions endured by these children which result in them becoming violent when there have been either no interventions or when the interventions were unsuccessful. The articles provides suggestions on how educators should respond to such children
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    Action Research and Teacher Education, Part 1
    (Daily Express, 2006-10) Worrell, Patricia
    Part 1 of this article notes that the School of Education at the St. Augustine Campus of The University of the West Indies (UWI) has included an action research component as a core element of its certificate and diploma programmes as one means of addressing the demand for more effective programmes of teacher education. However, it is also noted that the benefits of action research are not being realized in schools because of the negative reactions experienced by student teachers returning to schools and attempting to implement action research interventions. It is suggested that teacher education institutions should seek to design interventions that will include whole schools in the cycle of research
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    Action Research: Fruitful Collaborations, Part 2
    (Daily Express, 2006-11) Worrell, Patricia
    The second part of this article makes the case for collaborative action research as one way to help to ensure that positive changes occur in schools and classrooms. It makes suggestions for the specific arrangements that need to be put in place to ensure fruitful collaboration
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    Alcohol Education 101
    (Daily Express, 2006) Brathwaite, Brader
    This article seeks to prepare citizens for the introduction of the breathalyser in Trinidad and Tobago by explaining how the blood alcohol concentration (BAC) is determined
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    …and Spiders are not Insects
    (Daily Express, 2003-06) Herbert, Susan
    This article uses a personal experience to illustrate the resilience of students' prior concepts in science education. It suggests that teachers who embrace constructivism as a philosophy of knowledge should continue to elicit students' prior understandings, but also try to help them to become aware of, and understand, the different constructed understandings of phenomena they encounter by deliberately confronting their prior knowledge
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    Another Look at Indiscipline in our School System
    (Daily Express, 2002-07) Hackett, Raymond S.
    This article examines the culture of Trinidad and Tobago as a factor in the problem of indiscipline in schools, as well as the issue of student control in schools. It then offers recommendations for addressing the indiscipline in schools in Trinidad and Tobago
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    Are Parents Doing it Right?
    (Daily Express, 2003-12) Maharaj-Sharma, Rawatee
    This article examines the parent-teacher relationship and the impact this relationship can have on the child, if not properly managed. It is suggested that there comes a time when the role of parents as teachers of their children is not as significant as the role of teachers at school, and that the parents need to become teacher facilitators who work behind the scenes to equip their children with the attitudes and understandings that will make them good students at school and good children at home
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    Arresting Violence and Indiscipline
    (Daily Express, 2005-03) Pierre, Phaedra
    This article examines the trend of increasing indiscipline and violence in the school system of Trinidad and Tobago and the various ways in which this is manifested, including student-student aggression and student-teacher violence. It identifies some of the reasons for this trend and makes recommendations on how the school system could play its part in addressing the crisis
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    Art, Politics, and the End of Education, Part 3
    (Daily Express, 2008-06) Khan, Steven
    Part 3 of this 4-part article argues that, through our education project, we must establish clearly the link between what is learnt and the responsibilities of individuals to other individuals, to their societies, and to other societies. It advises that we must find ways and means to link educative projects to the most basic of human desires as well as the most noble of human aspirations
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    Biophilia
    (Daily Express, 2009-03) Khan, Steven
    This article reflects on the value of biology education
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    Blogging as an Educational Tool
    (Daily Express, 2006) James, Cynthia
    This article examines the blog as a teaching tool
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    Building Bridges Between School and Community
    (Daily Express, 2003-02) Herbert, Susan
    This article identifies some of the initiatives undertaken by the Ministry of Education in Trinidad and Tobago in response to calls from the general public for quality education. However, it notes that there appears to be resistance to changes required on the part of the general public, including education practitioners. The paper therefore identifies some underlying beliefs, values, and norms that may be guiding the expectations of stakeholders, and makes suggestions for strategies to address these
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    Building Strong Cultures
    (Daily Express, 2004-03) Worrell, Patricia
    In this article, the author reminisces about the characteristics of her primary school that demonstrated what is now valued as a "strong school culture."
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    Bullying in Schools
    (Daily Express, 2007) Brathwaite, Brader
    This article discusses the problem of bullying in schools. It identifies some of the risk factors and warning signs, as well as possible methods of tackling the problem
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    Business in Education
    (Daily Express, 2009-03) Khan, Steven
    This article discusses the ideas advanced by Raymond E. Callahan in his 1962 book "Education and the Cult of Efficiency." The book presents an in-depth social-historical analysis of the personalities and sociocultural forces that influenced the actions of educational administrators in the first three decades of the 20th century, and through which business values, practices, and ideology had come to influence the culture of educational administrators and schools. The article argues that this analysis is relevant to Trinidad and Tobago and the Caribbean
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    Calming Fears About CAPE
    (Daily Express, 2003-06) Worrell, Patricia
    This article addresses the fears of educators, students, and parents in Trinidad and Tobago about the country's participation in the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) administered by the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC). It locates the reason for this fear in the absence of an effective communication strategy for the diffusion of the innovation, and provides suggestions on the elements of such a strategy
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    Can Trinis Learn to Speak Spanish Fluently?
    (Daily Express, 2004) Morris, Jeanette
    In seeking to answer the question of whether citizens of Trinidad and Tobago could ever become bilingual, this article briefly reviews the history of modern language teaching in Trinidad and Tobago, with particular reference to Spanish. It notes that despite all efforts, students still exhibit a lack of interest in learning Spanish. Suggestions are offered on what needs to be done if Spanish is to become the second language of Trinidad and Tobago
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    Caring and Effective Classrooms
    (Daily Express, 2009-04) Khan, Steven
    This article presents the core findings of a 2008 review of the international literature, which synthesized the best available evidence on how teachers create effective learning communities in mathematics classrooms
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    Caring for Ourselves
    (Daily Express, 2007-12) Khan, Steven
    Reflecting on personal experiences, this article argues that teachers have a responsibility to care for themselves in order to avoid burnout, and to teach their students, by their examples, how to care for themselves by nourishing healthy relationships