TEACHERS TRAINED

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Twenty teachers from Trinidad and Tobago have completed intensive training in how to better support students with dyslexia. The workshop was made possible through a partnership between the Dyslexia Association of Trinidad and Tobago, Republic Bank, and the Methodist Church Board. Elizabeth Williams has more in this report.

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00:00Now we had 20 teachers from around Tobago, from the different primary schools.

00:08Actually, we had 19 from Tobago.

00:10Trinidad was sold, was booked, was oversubscribed.

00:15And one teacher from Point 14 moved to Tobago to do this workshop.

00:20The intensive training included hands-on student-teacher interaction

00:25and they focused on strengthening language skills to better support dyslexic learners.

00:32It entailed them learning how to conduct a classroom assessment, how to assess these students.

00:38Then we had children come for one hour every day.

00:42So they assessed, they worked in pairs, they assessed these students for one hour every day

00:50and that went over two days.

00:53And then after the assessment, they started implementing what they were learning

01:00for the rest of the last teaching was today, for the rest of the program.

01:06Tutor with the Dyslexic Association of Trinidad and Tobago, Denicia Harisanti,

01:11said while the program was challenging, it proved to be rewarding for the participants,

01:17all of whom received certificates of completion.

01:20I think that's the joy of this because it allows us to see where in areas

01:27where we may have been encountering difficulties, there are strategies to help us to overcome such.

01:35And for the teachers, they would have spoken about the amount of homework

01:42because it's a very intensive course and I think that's where the difficulty lies

01:47because it's like a semester course in a three-week program.

01:51The closing ceremony took place at the Scarborough Methodist Primary School.

01:56Elizabeth Williams, TV6 News.

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