Queen’s College teacher honoured for years of contribution

Nov 10, 2013 News

Miss Elizabeth Eloise Williams would say that becoming a lawyer has always been her calling in life but the numerous students who have had their lives transformed by her presence and instructions would contest that. The work and contributions of this educator was celebrated by the Queen’s College family in a momentous valedictory ceremony on Friday.
In an interview with Kaieteur News, Ms. Williams ,who provided the college with over ten years of service said that “she started teaching as an accident but it became her passion.”

Ms. Elizabeth Williams

Ms. Williams joined the Social Studies Department of Queens College in February, 2002. While functioning as a History and Social Studies teacher, she took the time to further qualify herself at the University of Guyana and obtained a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History as well as a Post Graduate Degree in Education, majoring in Social Studies.
This career minded woman then became a trained graduate mistress and started teaching Caribbean Studies in 2004. Ms. Williams however noted that being a trained teacher was by no means the end of her road; she wanted more and believed that she could have achieved it.
Focused on the prize of academic fulfillment, Ms. Williams was convinced that her dreams would not have been accomplished until she pursued her life-long ambition of becoming a lawyer. So in 2008 she embarked on the journey in pursuit of her dream.
Against the backdrop of becoming a strong advocate for women Ms. Williams pursued and obtained her Latin Legum Baccalaureus (LLB), Bachelor of Law at the University of Guyana in 2013.
At present, Ms Williams is the Head of the Social Studies Department at the Bishops’ High School.
The ceremony in honour of this stalwart educator was truly phenomenal as students heralded her unstinted contribution for more than a decade.
This teacher believes that contemporary methods of teaching are necessary to ensure that every student learns at his/her level. Her many students at the ceremony reminisced on how Ms. Williams “would make Christopher Columbus, the Buccaneers and Privateers “come alive,” in the classroom.”
Many gave speeches, preformed poems and dances in an effort to not only bid her goodbye but also to show the appreciation befitting such a longstanding teacher. Tributes highlighted Ms. Williams’ passion for teaching, knowledge and humanity as “she always went above and beyond the call of duty to help others.”