Belize Social Investment Fund – BSIF continues to empower teachers with skills training to achieve educational excellence.
Certification Exercises for teachers who successfully completed training in Early Childhood Development (ECD) and Quality Child Friendly School Initiative (QCFSI) will be held in the Southern District at the United Community Primary School in San Roman, Stann Creek District at 10 a.m. on Friday June 24.
The school project was designed to strengthen teachers’ skills in order to prepare them to deliver the curriculum in a more effective and efficient manner. Furthermore, training teachers in Early Childhood Development will provide opportunities and experiences for three and four year old children to learn in a safe, secure, comforting, caring, stimulating and multicultural environment for children of Santa Cruz and surrounding communities.
The purpose of this early childhood training is to empower teachers as well as sensitize parents so as to develop children in the preschool stage of Santa Cruz Village in the following context: socially, culturally, spiritually, emotionally, mentally, physically, and intellectually through play, child centered activities, and child focused programs to support a healthy holistic child development.
It is envisioned that teachers being trained, will have a positive impact, and encourage children to play in order to communicate, develop, explore, discover, experiment and inquire about the world. Children will also be stimulated to learn to acquire developmentally, appropriate skills, concepts, positive attitudes, and values that will become the foundation for a smooth transition into primary school and their life cycle.
The Belize Social Investment Fund in recognition of forging strategic partnership as it relates to capacity building of Belize’s human resources; collaborated with the Ministry of Education, Culture, Youth and Sports. Thus, the 12 weeks training was administered by Stann Creek District Education Center.
The Early Childhood Education training project is an initiative undertaken by BSIF in contributing to the empowerment and strengthening of the education system in the South. It is being funded by the Government of Belize as a Sub-Project under the Basic Needs Trust Fund 7, Caribbean Development Bank.
Belize Social Investment Fund is government’s poverty-reduction flagship addressing the basic needs of Belizeans through socio-economic initiatives and community empowerment.
