Guyana Digital School offers free live lessons to support students

The Education Ministry of Guyana launched a program to provide free live reinforcement classes through the Guyana Digital School (GDS) for students in Grades One to Eleven.

This initiative aims to help children improve their skills in mathematics and literacy outside of regular school hours. The ministry created the platform to complement traditional classroom teaching by using a blended learning approach.

While the school already offers digital libraries and recorded lessons, these new live sessions allow students to interact with trained educators to ask questions and seek clarification on difficult topics. The program seeks to ensure that a child's academic success does not depend on whether a family can afford private tuition. Parents and students face some challenges with the new system, such as keeping younger children focused during online sessions.

To help with this, the GDS Director encouraged parents to link their email addresses to student accounts to monitor progress. The ministry plans to use regular monitoring and assessments to determine if the students are making progress in the subjects where they need the most help.