{"id":15216,"date":"2011-11-18T09:17:50","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T14:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=15216"},"modified":"2011-11-18T09:46:08","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T14:46:08","slug":"quality-of-teaching-is-poor-and-weak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/11\/quality-of-teaching-is-poor-and-weak","title":{"rendered":"Quality of Teaching Is Poor and Weak"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15219\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15219\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15219\" title=\"student\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/student.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/student.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/student-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15219\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Quality of teaching in public schools is poor and weak<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Two of the indispensable ingredients necessary for a child\u2019s successful education are a home life conducive to learning and good teaching in school.<\/p>\n<p>Improving the quality of family life is a rather complex matter, admitting no easy or short-term solutions.<\/p>\n<p>Our concern today is the quality of teaching in our public school system.<\/p>\n<p>There are many excellent teachers in the system who have dedicated their lives to the education of generations of young Bahamians.<\/p>\n<p>Through mastery of their subject matter as well as a passion for imparting this knowledge, these teachers have contributed significantly to national development.<\/p>\n<p>Today, many teachers find themselves in the position of having to act as surrogate parents for student\u2019s whose home lives are extraordinarily difficult.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the range of disciplinary problems confronted by teachers makes an already challenging profession even more difficult.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the quality of much of the teaching in our public schools is poor and weak. Why is it that some of our students in Family Island schools with small classroom sizes and a superior student-teacher ratio, still leave those schools with weak literacy and numeracy skills?<\/p>\n<p>It comes back to the quality of the teaching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite many good and dedicated teachers, the quality of teaching in our public school system is poor and weak, and many students leave lacking basic literacy and numeracy skills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[21,140,51],"class_list":["post-15216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-educational","tag-schools","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}