With administrators continuing to be on the edge of their seats, to see whether there will be a surge in teacher migration come August, Dr. Nigel Clarke, minister of finance and the public service, has reiterated that Jamaica spends the second highest on education among the Caribbean territories.
While speaking at the closing ceremony for the week-long Caribbean Union of Teachers’ (CUT) 41st Biennial Conference, which was held at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel on Friday, Clarke referred to the World Bank’s and UNICEF’s Public Expenditure Review of the Education Sector in Jamaica 2021which stated that in 2019 education in Jamaica…
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Machine Learning Definitions, Types, Examples and Applications
By: Lavanya Singh, Technologies Writer
Machine learning, a potent field within artificial intelligence, empowers computers to learn from data and autonomously make predictions or decisions, without the need for explicit programming. It focuses on the development of algorithms and models that can automatically identify patterns, extract insights, and make informed predictions based on large datasets. By leveraging statistical techniques, mathematical optimization, and computational power, machine learning algorithms can process vast amounts of data and uncover complex relationships and trends.
Machine learning has revolutionized various industries, including healthcare, finance, marketing, and transportation. It is employed in diverse applications such as image…
The Online Reading Tool You’ve Missed Out On –
Creating an intensive lesson plan is a pressing job, especially for some teachers who juggle multiple classes from different grades. You don’t want to accidentally use a 3rd Grade material to teach a 4th Grade class.
No worries. Read theory is the hero every English teacher needs.
It is not a literal ‘theory’ for reading. It is a helpful website that provides materials to improve students’ reading and comprehension abilities.
How Did Read Theory Emerge?
It all started with a passionate English teacher who made his own teaching materials and shared them with his colleagues via his website.
As time…
5 Essential Strategies for ESL Teachers –
What can educators do to improve student learning? Here is where Culturally Responsive Teaching comes into play.
Culturally Responsive Teaching is also called Culturally Relevant Teaching. Nowadays, educators aim to implement Culturally Responsive Teaching rather than Traditional Teaching Methods.
Essentially, the main purpose of implementing Culturally Responsive Teaching strategies in ESL classrooms is to create an inclusive, safe, and immersive educational environment.
The Importance of Culturally Responsive Teaching
There are so many different approaches to teaching. To name a few, we have student-centred, self-paced, teacher-centred, and many more.
However, for Culturally Responsive Teaching, educators revise their instruction to help diverse…
How Machine Learning Can Improve the Customer Experience
Machine learning is a promising technology for improving the customer experience. why? It’s simple: because it can predict customer behavior. Prediction as a capability is the Holy Grail for foreseeing each customer need and personalizing products and services accordingly. From the consumer’s perspective, when ML’s ethical pitfalls are avoided, prediction can be the ultimate antidote to the information overload that we all face every day. By deploying ML to predict which content is most relevant for each individual, customers can receive better recommendations, less junk mail, very little inbox spam, and higher quality search results, among many other things. These…
Biden Education chief: GOP uses schools ‘as a means to divide’
Education Secretary Miguel Cardona highlighted Democrats’ efforts at “parent partnership” in an op-ed for Newsweek this week, indirectly hitting back at Republicans who are trying to paint Democrats as uncaring about parental rights in education.
“From Day One of President Joe Biden’s tenure, we have made authentic parent engagement a top priority, not only embedding the needs of parents and families into most of our programs, but also creating new opportunities for parents to engage directly with the Department of Education and with their own school communities,” Cardona wrote in his opinion piece, titled “We are Raising the Bar for…
The Education Department’s new third-party services definition won’t go into effect until September
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Acknowledging widespread concern from colleges, contractors and associations, the US Department of Education is pushing back by four months — until September — the start date for a broadened definition of organizations that are third-party servicers under federal financial aid programs.
Third-party servicers are entities that administer any part of colleges’ Title IV federal financial aid programs. Being defined as a third-party servicer comes with additional regulatory requirements, such as compliance auditing. Third-party servicers are also jointly liable for violations of federal…