To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly Chief Sec­re­tary and Sec­re­tary for Ed­u­ca­tion Kelvin Charles says in or­der to keep stu­dents up-to-date with the school cur­ricu­lum, the THA is now cre­at­ing an on­line teach­ing plat­form.

He said spe­cial em­pha­sis will be placed on stu­dents prepar­ing for the 2020 Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment, Caribbean Sec­ondary Ed­u­ca­tion Cer­tifi­cate and Caribbean Ad­vanced Pro­fi­cien­cy Ex­am­i­na­tion.

He was speak­ing at this week’s post-Ex­ec­u­tive Coun­cil me­dia brief­ing at the Ann Mitchell Gift Au­di­to­ri­um, Scar­bor­ough Li­brary on March 25.

Charles said nine To­ba­go teach­ers will be trained to use the on­line ed­u­ca­tion­al plat­form, which will of­fer “per­son­alised learn­ing en­vi­ron­ments for stu­dents.” They will load videos and oth­er forms of learn­ing ma­te­r­i­al on­to the plat­form, he said.

“We are al­so en­cour­ag­ing col­lab­o­ra­tion be­tween the teach­ers of the SEA class­es,” he said.

Charles al­so said the THA is urg­ing prin­ci­pals and teach­ers to pre­pare learn­ing pack­ages for stu­dents, who are ex­pect­ed to re­main at home un­til April 30 in the first in­stance.

Oth­er ed­u­ca­tion pro­grammes, based on the syl­labus, are avail­able on­line and on var­i­ous tele­vi­sion sta­tions, the Ed­u­ca­tion Sec­re­tary said.

He al­so out­lined, how stu­dents, who usu­al­ly re­ceive school feed­ing, can ben­e­fit from one of the gov­ern­ment’s so­cial re­lief pro­grammes.

Charles said the THA’s wel­fare de­part­ment is work­ing with prin­ci­pals to de­ter­mine which fam­i­lies will be giv­en the Food Cards.

“We will col­late in­for­ma­tion from the schools... along with da­ta about par­ents and their con­tact num­bers...We will or­gan­ise the da­ta and make rec­om­men­da­tions so that the stu­dents...can ac­cess those food cards.”

He said that the pro­gramme will ben­e­fit on­ly na­tion­als of T&T.