{"id":21993,"date":"2020-05-06T11:07:15","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T16:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/?p=21993"},"modified":"2020-05-06T11:07:16","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T16:07:16","slug":"teachers-day-message-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/teachers-day-message-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Teachers\u2019 Day Message 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Education\nWeek 2020 is being celebrated by the Jamaica Teachers\u2019 Association under the\ntheme: <strong>\u201cPromoting Digital Transformation\nand Positive Values and Attitudes:&nbsp; Imperatives\nfor Redefining 21<sup>st<\/sup> Century Education.\u201d&nbsp; <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\nis indeed timely and relevant especially during this global Pandemic caused by\nCOVID-19.&nbsp; Teachers and students\naccustomed to daily interactions in the classroom are now forced to operate in\na virtual learning environment using the various Online Learning Platforms and\nmeans of communication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Teachers have always risen to the challenges that confront the education system but now more than ever their creativity and innovativeness have come to the forefront.\u00a0 This COVID-19 situation also highlights the need for all students to have access to devices and the internet in order to fully benefit from continued schooling.\u00a0 Unless that is possible students will not experience the interactive learning environment that will increase their knowledge and deepen their understanding at all levels of the system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Education\nwill never return to what we have been accustomed to but this Pandemic has\nhighlighted the need for the teachers in the lives of our children.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As\nwe grapple with the various issues impacting the system we must express our\ngratitude to the teachers of Jamaica and especially those serving in our\nAnglican Schools for empowering our students and making our schools, \u201c<strong>Schools of Choice.\u201d<\/strong>&nbsp; We salute you all.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>HAPPY TEACHERS\u2019 DAY!<br>Keep safe.<\/strong><br><em>Ena Barclay (Mrs.)<br>Director \u2013 Anglican Schools.<br>May 6, 2020<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education Week 2020 is being celebrated by the Jamaica Teachers\u2019 Association under the theme: \u201cPromoting Digital Transformation and Positive Values and Attitudes:&nbsp; Imperatives for Redefining 21st Century Education.\u201d&nbsp; It is indeed timely and relevant especially during this global Pandemic caused by COVID-19.&nbsp; Teachers and students accustomed to daily interactions in the classroom are now forced&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":610,"featured_media":21994,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-schools","ctfw-has-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/610"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21995,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21993\/revisions\/21995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}