Professional Documents
Culture Documents
OUMH2203
LECTURER NAME
ELLEN DRABBLE
STUDENT NAME
MATRIX NUMBER
650704055064001
IC NUMBER
650704-05-5064
PHONE
0196413122
shidarembau@gmail.com
CENTRE
1. PURPOSE OF PROPOSAL
1.1 Introduction
In education, research has shown that teaching quality and school leadership are
the most important factors in raising student achievement. For teachers and school and
district leaders to be as effective as possible, they continually expand their knowledge
and skills to implement the best educational practices. Educators learn to help students
learn at the highest levels.
A professional development is a must nowadays due to the needs of keeping up
with many educational issues revolves around teaching professions. Teachers in todays
world are under a growing pressure to perform a high quality teaching in classroom.
We have to take a glance of the National Education Philosophy which is
emphasizing on the essentials of teaching profession in Malaysia.
Education in Malaysia is an ongoing effort towards further developing the
potential of individuals in a holistic and integrated manner so as to produce individuals who are
intellectually, spiritually, emotionally and physically balanced and harmonious, based on a
firm belief in and devotion of God. Such an effort is designed to produce Malaysian citizens who
are knowledgeable and competent, who possess high moral standards and who are responsible
and capable in achieving a high level of personal well-being and being able to contribute to the
betterment of the family, society and nation at large.
Malaysian Educational policy is the transformation of the National Philosophy
and as documented in the Ministry of Education circular 1988, the policy focuses on
improving the quality and increasing the quantity of output to meet the workforce
requirements as well as to produce disciplined citizens who have high moral values and
good work ethics. It is designed to equip students with essential skills in a holistic and
integrated manner so as to produce individuals who meet the requirements of the
National Philosophy of Education and are functionally literate.
In this crisis also I would like to specify qualities of ideal teacher. An ideal teacher
has the following qualities to face drastic changes in educational system. An ideal teacher
should be:
1. Honest in their duties.
2. Confident in his/her profession.
3. Approach to modern techniques in teaching by using teaching learning materials.
4. Prepare a plan before teaching lesson to students in efficient manner.
5. Establish confidence in parents about their children's education.
6. Mingle with society to share his/her views with them.
7. Intimate the progress of every student at every moment to parents to know the learning
disabilities in the children.
8. Make the students to respect, like and feel free to ask any doubts they get.
2.2 Expected benefits
Professional development is the only means for teachers to gain such knowledge.
Whether students are high, low, or average achievers, they will learn more if their
teachers regularly engage in high-quality professional development, and heighten the
professional quality of teaching.
Professional development is most effective when it occurs in the context of
educators daily work. When learning is part of the school day, all educators are engaged
in growth rather than learning being limited to those who volunteer to participate on their
own. School-based professional development helps educators analyze student
achievement data during the school year to immediately identify learning problems,
develop solutions, and promptly apply those solutions to address students needs. The
same things will occur in teachers professional development. All teachers record will be
checked by the officer monthly and their achievement will be awarded at the end of the
year.
(5) increase the ability to monitor students work, in order to provide constructive
feedback to students and appropriately redirect teaching.
2.4 Suggested program for teacher
As this program will benefit the teachers in all subjects teaching and fields, the
activities that are suit with their needs have ben design along way in this program
throughout the year. Below are the suggested activities involves :
courses/workshops (e.g. on subject matter or methods and/or other education-related
topics);
education conferences or seminars (at which teachers and/or researchers present their
research results
and discuss education problems);
qualification program (e.g. a degree program);
observation visits to other schools;
participation in a network of teachers formed specifically for the professional
development of teachers.
individual or collaborative research on a topic of professional interest; and
mentoring and/or peer observation and coaching, as part of a formal school
arrangement.
The Module that will be Used
Teacher centered
- Classroom teaching observing
- Grouping and brainstorming in program
activities
- Action Research in school
- Teaching reflection
- Teacher group / peer group collaboration
The modules will be offered at a number of intervals during 2014 and will require a
minimum commitment equivalent to 20 hours over a two-week period.
Round
1
2
3
4
5
Program dates
19 May - 30 May 2014
30 June - 11 July 2014
11 August - 22 August 2014
8 September - 19 September 2014
29 September - 10 October 2014
The lifetime learning program for teacher is a continuous program for a long time based.
Teacher will get benefit on their positive tracked record every month and it will benefit their
students too. Their knowledge will also being refreshed each time reflection being made by the
observer of their teaching in classroom.
2.4.1
The teachers need longer hours of training to be able to acquire a high level of
competency of ICT in teaching. Though ICT is part of the curriculum in teacher training
colleges the teachers have not achieved sufficient confidence when it comes to
integrating it in teaching. Further efforts have to be taken to ensure that the teacher
education students have the necessary level of confidence and also the competence to
integrate ICT in their classrooms.
3. ADVANTAGES
OF
CONTINUOUS
PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT
card and their lesson plan will be checked to ensure they have new ideas in classroom
everyday.
5. CONCLUSION
Education has always been of the highest priority in Malaysia as it strives to attain the
status of developed nation. The Malaysian government invests a large proportion of its
annual expenditure on education in terms of both its infrastructure and provision and the
investment in human resource development. With globalization and high paced technological
developments worldwide, Malaysia too heightens its endeavor to remain in the forefront with
the current developments.
The Ministry of Education and its agencies caters towards the training and retraining
of its teachers to accomplish its vision and mission. Teachers in Malaysia have become the
driving force to raise the capacity of knowledge and innovation and nurture the first class
mentality among their students. Measures have been taken by the government to enhance
quality education training to be in par with international best practices. While keeping in pace
with the frequent changing trends the teacher professional development has undergone a
tremendous change and advancement for the betterment of the society and nation at large.
The teacher training curriculum has been strengthened to develop teachers as competent
managers of teaching and learning. Teachers have become efficient to a greater extent in the
use of ICT to create and implement innovative teaching techniques though, a handful of
hardcore teachers have refused to be part of the change.
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