Two-hour orientationfor Teachers of Government Primary and Secondary Schools
Twenty-six overseas teacherswill enter the government school system in September. Two Caymanianeducators are also returning to the classroom from post-graduatestudies.
On Wednesday, August 28,the Education Department hosted a two-hour orientation for newteachers assigned to primary and secondary schools, as well asperipatetic and special needs positions. The department has recruitededucators from the rest of the Caribbean, the United Kingdom andCanada and will use this meeting to bring staff up to date onpersonnel and finance practices.
Among those in attendancewere 12 new primary school staff. They are Valrie Lindo who isheaded to John A. Cumber; Orville Moore and Charlayne Knight-Casimirewho will teach at Red Bay; Mopsie Crawford and Benedict John willtake up positions at Bodden Town Primary; while returning CaymanianErica Greenidge is headed to North Side. Peripatetic posts includemusic teachers Johanna Lewis and Sandra MacDonald, as well ascounsellor Annie May Seymour, another returning Caymanian. Inthe Sister Islands Maylyn Beckford and Verna Wilson are headedto Creek Primary, and Veronica Juman-Khan to Little Cayman.
At the high school levelthere are some 13 new educators, namely information technologyteachers Desmond Campbell and Wendy Weise, physical educationteacher Selvin Rose and art teacher Darnell Walker. School counselorDonovan Myers, home economics teacher Sandra Douglas, Englishteacher Billy Hanson, technology teachers Ian Hemmings and DesmondWhite, as well as science teachers Dereck Mejias and Michael Peartwill join John Gray. Meanwhile counsellor Michael Dotzko and religiouseducation/social studies teacher Yvette Gordon-Gayle are headedto Cayman Brac High.
Other new faces includeAlternative Education Programme personnel Sharlene DeMerchantand Leslie Williams, as well as Lighthouse School teacher HeatherLyn.