The Erdiston Teachers' Training College is located in Pine Hill, Bridgetown, Barbados.
[1] Around 1912, Codrington College, under the direction of Principal Anstey, commenced delivering teacher training.
The Rawle provided teacher training not just to Barbadians but to individuals from other parts of the West Indies.
The first class of students at Erdiston consisted of 16 men and 16 women, all in-service elementary teachers.
[4] However, in 1958, the one year emergency training programme was introduced focussed on practising but untrained teachers.
In 1983, Erdiston was a key player in the First Education Development Project, funded by the Government of Barbados and the World Bank.
Later, in line with a later education reform initiative, The Education Sector Enhancement Programme (ESE), often referred to as EduTech 2000,[5] Erdiston undertook to train and re-train teachers to upgrade their skills and provide for a teaching pedagogy based on constructivism and student-centred learning.
This is a part-time, in-service post-graduate diploma programme for practising teachers who have university degrees but have not participated in professional education related to pedagogical techniques.
[8] The same publication reported that in pre-primary (ages 3 to 5), primary, secondary and special education, 63% of teachers were trained while 37% were not.
[10][11] In November 2020, Erdiston signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Toronto, Canada's George Brown College to promote student study abroad options, faculty exchanges, and joint research.
[14] A project team was established which involved staff from the Ministry of Education which led to a proposal for the amalgamation.