The Jamaica Teaching Council Act 2022

Abstract

An Act to recognize and promote teaching as a profession; to contribute to improving the quality of teaching and learning in Jamaica by regulating the entry and standing of members of the teaching profession; to establish and maintain the registers of teachers and the Role of Instructors; to establish and maintain the professional standards for teacher competence and practice; to regulate the professional conduct of teachers to ensure, in the public interest, that teachers are fit and proper persons to teach; to create an enabling environment for the continuing professional development of teachers; and for those purposes to establish a body to be called the Jamaica Teaching Council; and provide for connected matters.