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Dr Garth Anderson, Dean, Teachers' Colleges of Jamaica
There's some resistance emerging in response to the proposal for the Jamaica Teaching Council (JTC) to evaluate the performance of teachers.
The Teachers' Colleges of Jamaica has responded, saying it is impractical for the Council to monitor teachers in more than a thousand public schools as well as numerous private institutions.
Dr Garth Anderson, Dean of the Teachers' Colleges of Jamaica, told Radio Jamaica News that the evaluation of teachers must be carried out at the local level, within schools.
Characterising teacher evaluation as "an intimate matter between you and your immediate supervisor," he argued that it was impractical for such an exercise to be carried out centrally.
The proposal in the bill was therefore "a far overreach," he asserted, stressing that such evaluations "must be left at base".
The bill to establish the JTC is currently being reviewed by a Joint Select Committee of Parliament.
The bill is intended to establish a governing body for the teaching profession and institute a regime for the licensing and registration of all government-paid teachers.
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