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REAP to fill education gaps left by pandemic - Barbados Today

The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) has partnered with the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) and the CARICOM Secretariat to develop a recovery programme to assist more than one million Caribbean students who experienced learning challenges due to disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.The programme Let’s REAP (Learning Recovery and Enhancement Programme) includes a developmental certification training exercise for teachers to give them the requisite tools to help students overcome learning challenges. Three thousand teachers are expected to start training next month.During a Zoom launch on Wednesday, Assistant Secretary General for human and social development at the CARICOM Secretariat, Alison Drayton, described Let’s REAP as an important initiative following the experience of COVID-19 during which many students across the region were disenfranchised.“Gaps in educational access equity, quality and relevance were exposed significantly as the students and families struggled to gain and maintain access through technological connections. Teachers were challenged to secure equitable relevant and quality educational learning outcomes through technology-mediated pedagogical interventions,” she said.

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