Academic Achievements
- Graduate Certificate in Adult Learning, Walden University
- Certificate in Principles and Practices of Educational Institutional Leadership Management, University of New Brunswick
- Master of Science Education – Literacy Studies, Walden University
- Master of Education – Educational Technology and English Language Teaching, The University of Manchester
- Bachelor of Arts Degree – English, Spanish, The University of Guyana
- Certificate in Education, The University of Guyana
- Trained Teachers’ Certificate, Cyril Potter College of Education
Areas of Research and Professional Interests
- Language and identity in Teacher Education
- Themes of identity in Caribbean and African American Literature
- Literacy Practices of In-Service Teachers
- Improving the quality of Teacher Education
- Special Education - Understanding the challenges of high incidence learning needs
Papers and Ongoing Research
- Student voices: Insights of Final Year Students’ views on Practicum at the University of Guyana (2016)
- Teacher instruction in reading fluency (2016)
- Centering vocabulary in the teaching of comprehension (2015)
- Servant Leadership (2014)
- No place like home – Displacement in Ramabai Espinet’s “The Swinging Bridge” (2012)
- Against Silence and Forgetting: George Lamming and Edwidge Danticat (2011)
- Connecting “Shadow” and “Dream” in Danticat’s Farming of Bones (2011)
- Teaching English as a Second Language: Exploring the Psyche of the Creole Speaker (2010)