This article has been migrated to: Guyana’s Trained Teacher’s Certificate is Totally Useless in the USA on the Guyana, South America official website.
30th of January, 2022. Guyana, South America
Last updated: December 18, 2022 at 16:33 pmDear Editor,
Going through my belongings I brought from Guyana 4 years and 364 days ago, I came across my teacher certification. Sad to say it did nothing for me in New York.
All those years I toiled…going to classes after work and coming home late at nights, crammed in minibuses in the hot afternoon sun going up the Corentyne — 5 days a week, all those pedagogical courses, content courses, countless assignments, presentations, and exams that you had to write pages and pages to explain your answer….
The Government had good intentions, but if you are teaching in Guyana and want to migrate to the USA in the long term, think carefully what you are doing in Guyana in terms of studies, because it’s a different ballgame when you come here.
The Cyril Potter College of Education is doing the Associate Degree in Education today along with the programme I graduated from in 2006. You show this document to NY State Dept of Education and it means nothing to enter the system here. It’s as cheap as the paper the college gives you.
This just shows how broken the Education system of Guyana is, and how much work it would need to fix it. Guyana is not preparing teachers for world-class and first-world-class teaching.
Respectfully,
Leon Jameson Suseran
I ‘m sorry to learn of your experience.I also have a Trained Teacher’s Certificate from Guyana and upon my return to college in the USA during the early :I was fortunate to 90’s; I was fortunate to receive 33 credits by the Board of Equivalency.It all depends on each circumstance.It can definitely be a waste of time and money having to retake courses already completed.Have had that experience as well.Thank you for sharing!