{"id":334877,"date":"2025-01-03T16:30:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T20:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=334877"},"modified":"2025-01-03T16:30:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T20:30:36","slug":"targeted-support-needed-to-bridge-education-gap-for-boys-in-caribbean-say-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/targeted-support-needed-to-bridge-education-gap-for-boys-in-caribbean-say-experts\/","title":{"rendered":"Targeted support needed to bridge education gap for boys in Caribbean, say experts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_334879\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-334879\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-334879\" src=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/unnamed-642x427.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-334879\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L-r) Lanre Chin, Mentorship Officer at the Jamaica Teaching Council, Alice Dalrymple, Kalinago Development Officer Dominica, Dr Maria Zielger, CDB Gender Specialist, Dr Verna Knight, Coordinator B.Ed Programme, and Coordinator Eastern Caribbean Joint Board of Teacher Education, The University of the West Indies Cave Hill, and Barbadian Senator, Andwele Boyce. Photo credit: Caribbean Development bank<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>To tackle the growing disparity in educational outcomes between genders in the Caribbean, experts are advocating for specialized mentorship for boys, more inclusive teaching strategies, and robust training in skills and entrepreneurship. They also emphasize the necessity of strengthening partnerships between schools and families, as boys are currently more than twice as likely as girls to repeat grades or drop out from primary and secondary education.<\/p>\n<p>Boys throughout the region face unique hurdles at every educational level. Data from UNESCO reveals that for every 100 men enrolled in tertiary institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean, there are 124 women, in stark contrast to the global average of 113 women for every 100 men.<\/p>\n<p>This pressing concern was brought to light during the keynote address titled &#8220;Education for All: Creating Inclusive, Gender-responsive and Learner-centred Systems in Education&#8221; at the Regional Symposium and Policy Dialogue on Transforming Education, which took place in the Cayman Islands from October 2-4, 2024. The event brought together over 150 education officials from the region, including Dominica&#8217;s Alice Dalrymple, Kalinago Development Officer, as well\u00a0 Minister for Education, Human Resource Planning, Vocational Training and Nation Excellence, Octavia Alfred, who was a featured speaker.<\/p>\n<p>Experts on the panel pinpointed various obstacles leading to boys&#8217; educational disengagement, including outdated teaching methodologies, a scarcity of male educators and mentors, and societal pressures mandating that young males assume breadwinner roles at an early age, often due to absent fathers.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Verna Knight, who coordinates the B.Ed Program and the Eastern Caribbean Joint Board of Teacher Education at The University of the West Indies Cave Hill, shared vital insights on fostering inclusive, gender-sensitive education. She stressed that merely providing access to education is insufficient for ensuring academic success.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\u201cIn today&#8217;s 21<sup>st-<\/sup>century educational era, we have learned that educational access cannot be assumed to mean educational success for every child. In many classrooms across developing countries, one-third of our students are known to be physically present but disengaged from learning. They are in school but achieving no greater academic success than the child who is out of school,\u201d\u00a0 remarked Dr Knight.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Lanre Chin, the Mentorship Officer at the Jamaica Teaching Council (JTC), using the country as an example, highlighted Jamaica\u2019s experience, noting that despite around 20% of the national budget being allocated to education, boys\u2019 disengagement has led to troubling incarceration rates.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\u201cInstead of solely focusing on academic performance, the system can pivot towards more practical skills. We are in an environment with several needs. The system should be creating entrepreneurs, not workers, so the mindset of the boys needs to be shifted. This is why they\u2019re not being engaged,\u201d Mr. Chin said.<\/p>\n<p>To foster greater engagement among boys and aid in the development of practical skills, the JTC has initiated strategies such as establishing mentorship networks, targeted skills training, extracurricular activities, and income-generating opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>The panel of specialists also proposed enhanced support systems across early childhood, primary, and secondary education. Key suggestions included universal evaluations at critical entry points to swiftly identify learning needs, providing educators with ongoing data from assessments to tailor in-class support, and fostering strong alliances between schools and families to promote learning beyond the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>Additional recommendations called for public campaigns to encourage active parental involvement, compulsory mentorship programs for new educators, continuous professional development for teachers to respond to diverse student needs, and the collection of national data to monitor educational trends, enabling policymakers to enact well-informed reforms.<\/p>\n<p>The Regional Symposium and Policy Dialogue on Transforming Education convened experts and policymakers to collaboratively envision the future of Caribbean education and devise actionable strategies for achieving sustainable, gender-sensitive, and learner-centered educational reform. This event was organized in concert with the Caribbean Development Bank, in collaboration with the CARICOM Secretariat, OECS Commission, The University of the West Indies, and the Ministry of Education in the Cayman Islands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&nbsp; To tackle the growing disparity in educational outcomes between genders in the Caribbean, experts are advocating for specialized mentorship for boys, more inclusive teaching strategies, and robust training in skills and entrepreneurship. 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