Teacher Education in Trinidad

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Teacher Education in Trinidad and Tobago (1936-1902) At the end of the 19th century there was a short period between 1845-1851 where Trinidad was entirely without a teacher training college. This occurred because the collapse of the Mico Charity Training School in Port of Spain and the beginning of the first government teacher training insinuation in 1852 on Woodbrook estate near Port of Spain. From that point the government always had at least one government teacher training institution. In 1851 the government claimed the right to carry on the felid of teacher training. They did not want the felid of teacher training to become a monopoly. There was the commencement of the dual system in 1870 and this did not affect the government’s decision to be at the centre of teacher training. The British government helped fund the Mico Charity training school in Port of Spain from 1836-1845 as a provision to educate ex-slaves immediately after emancipation and the same was done in Jamaica and Antigua. When this was done teachers from various islands was brought to these countries for training. Training schools in Trinidad and Jamaica was closed because of lack of funds and at that time Antigua retained regional dimension. Immediately after post-emancipation in Trinidad the Mico Charity teacher trainers were knowledgeable about the latest methods in infant training and school organization but they were not exclusive trainers of teachers. Most of their funds went into the organization of their own primary schools which provided a base for their teacher training efforts but this created completion with the churches epically the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of Englind. The Mico Charity schools were coeducational which means that they would have to train teachers without regarding their religion. However, on a
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