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This PowerPoint is a run through of a section of the Jamaica vision 2030 document which speaks to secondary graduates who leave school under-qualified. It gives some statistics and issues as well as the government's plans to alleviate these issues.
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The Issues and Solutions
Secondary school leavers do not attain standards necessary to access further education, training and/or decent work and be productive and successful Jamaicans
Presented by: Stephen Jones, Rhoal Wright, Shevanese Walsh
VISION 2030 JAMAICANATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN
Issues Affecting High
schools
Low Attendance = Chronic Underachievement
Attendance/Yr
Present Absent
65%35%
Students Perform Below their Grade Level
Grade Level
Above Below
40-50%
40 – 50% Below their grade Level
Approximately 300,000 children
50%
Qualified Secondary Graduates
Qualified Secondary Graduates
Qualified Not Qualified
20%
80%
How do we Alleviate?
Establish and implement curricula to
create internationally competitive
Jamaican graduates with skills,
competencies, values and attitudes,
and interests which meet globally
accepted norms.
Equip all faculties especially science and the vocational areas with appropriate equipment.
Establish standards for secondary schools. For example: class size, qualifications and skill requirements of teachers, and resources to support the curriculum.
Everyone Can Learn:
Implement and sustain a system of early detection and referral of children with special needs
Everyone Must Learn
Develop and implement a strategy aimed at improving performance for the lower secondary level (Grades 7-9)
Create and maintain an efficient Teaching Framework to enhance CSEC performance
Create mechanisms that
would enable the school
system to integrate new and
emerging technologies and
ideas to improve the teaching
and learning process.
Maintain ICT training and
certification programme for
the secondary school
community (students,
teachers/administrators).
Establish Monitoring and Evaluation and Quality Assurance measures (e.g. establish M&E services at each Regional Education Authority)
Create opportunities and programmes to enable
students to be responsible, caring and recognize
the importance for contributing to the
community, committing to service in the wider
community in which they live.
Institutionalize a structured Citizenship Education (Character Education/Values and Attitude Programme) within the curriculum for implementation in all
Train and equip teachers with the necessary skill for implantation
Provide adequate instructional and resource manuals and materials to support this programme.Institutionalize a Learning Mentorship programme
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