Since Yesterday, and for the rest of the week, The National Resource Center for Inclusive Education - or NARCIE, as it is known - has been conducting training with the representatives of Bridgewater State University to impart new teaching techniques to educate special-needs children.
We caught up with them this afternoon to find out what this training is all about.
Here's what one of the representatives told us about the workshop:
Dativa Martinez, Director - Education Support Services
"The training that we are having today is in collaboration with Bridgewater State University - the national resource center for inclusive education is working on training for teachers in learning disabilities and for children that have attention deficit disorders. The training is to help teachers to gain skills in how to work with children that have these conditions and also it is a training of trainers. The trainees that are participating in this workshop are going to be expected to pass some of their knowledge and skills that they are gaining now to other teachers - come August when we have it for continuous professional development."
"The training is taking place from yesterday June 18th and it's going to be finish on Friday, so it's a one week training but it is packing an entire course into one week, so the teachers are really working very hard on this training."
And one special-needs student performed excellently. Rowan Garel exemplified the goals of NARCIE, but according to the director, there were other special-needs children who performed well on this year's Primary School Examination - even if their names were not trumpeted.
Dativa Martinez, Director - Education Support Services
"Indeed Rowan did well, but across the country we have other students that also took the PSE with some special arrangements be that extra time, needing of calculators or maybe somebody to read or write just so that they could have access the exam. Many other students did well and quite a number of our students are transitioning to secondary schools because of the support and assistance they are getting through this service that this unit provides."
