Script writing workshops to see several educators benefitting

A series of script writing workshops will see several educators across the country benefiting in an effort to help them prepare educational radio content to be aired by EdYou FM (99.7 FM).

The education ministry disclosed that  EdYou FM radio station forms part of the education ministry’s mission to provide the nation’s youths with equitable access to education, despite their geographical location.  It was revealed that the workshops target educators at different levels in the core subjects: Mathematics, English, Science, and Social Studies.

The National Centre for Educational Resources Development (NCERD), Acting Coordinator, Distance Learning and Information Unit, Ayanna Waddell revealed that the training will equip participants with the necessary skills to craft radio content to capture the attention of young learners.

Waddell noted that this, will then ensure that there are sufficient materials to be broadcast on the 24-hour radio station, once it is officially launched by June month-end.

The acting coordinator stressed that while the agency has set no fixed number as it relates to training, it is an ongoing process with the intent to train as many teachers as possible.  She noted that last year, several educators benefitted from this workshop, and from that batch, 11 teachers were selected to complete a two-week advanced scriptwriting workshop for 2022.

It was announced that each training session was facilitated by Communications Specialist Dr Rovin Deodat.

“From this batch, we have one nursery, and the remainder were primary and secondary teachers to get some scripts out for the coming term.  So, in the future, we do hope to pull in more (teachers) because we want to start one for teachers who would have not written before, and give them the kind of training and techniques that these teachers know,” Waddell explained.

The acting coordinator pointed out that so far, materials for primary level core subjects are covered with an aim to do the same for nursery and secondary level core subjects.

“For us now, it’s building both the nursery and secondary because we had nothing in the past for them, but with the new radio station and the scope and reach that we have, we know we need to capture all the levels, so for the secondary schools, it’s now getting everything on stream basically for us because we are starting from scratch,” Waddell declared.