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Jan 01, 2011 News
Olato Sam, who served for three years as advisor to the Minister of Education, has been appointed to fill the post of Chief Education Officer.
The position has been a thorny one for the Ministry after Genevieve Whyte-Nedd spent a prolonged period as the Acting Chief Education Officer and was never confirmed. She proceeded on retirement leave a few months ago.
Sam’s appointment was announced by Minister of Education Shaik Baksh yesterday. Sam is a former student of Queen’s College.
He attended Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania and graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in a special major—“Sociology, Anthropology and Education” and with a Pennsylvania Teachers Certificate in the area of Social Studies.
Sam taught at Walton High School as a teacher of Social Studies and English Literature.
He then became the Coordinator of the Alternative Education Programme for the education district at MS 144.
He continued his studies at New York University and earned a Masters Degree in International Education with a concentration in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Sam returned to Guyana as the Director of the New Millennium Institute and introduced the phonetic based literacy instructional programme through the Reading for All Learners Programme (RALP), currently being used in the school system nationwide.
He also served as a lecturer at the University of Guyana’s School of Education and Humanities in the Departments of Foundations and Education Management and Curriculum and Instruction.
In June 2006 he became the Head of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction and served in that capacity for one year.
In 2007 he moved to the Ministry of Education as the Technical Adviser to the Minister of Education and has served in that capacity since then.
He is also the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Cyril Potter College of Education (CPCE) and was instrumental in introducing a number of education initiatives including designing, implementing and coordinating the Teacher Education Improvement Project being funded by the World Bank.
Baksh also announced two other appointments. Donna Chapman has been appointed as the Deputy Chief Education Officer while Melcita Bovell was appointed the Assistant Chief Education Officer, Secondary.
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