Friday December 18, 2009
Twenty to be chosen as model schools
TWENTY high performing schools will be identified for the others in the country to emulate and elevate their quality.
The 20 high-performing schools are one of the four thrusts of the Education NKRA Laboratory that will be announced by the Prime Minister in January 2010.
Out of the 20, 14 will be secondary schools while six will be primary schools.
Schools aspiring to be under the high performing schools category, will undergo a detailed evaluation to qualify, in which a ranking system will rate schools based on the Standard Quality Education Malaysia pre-requisites.
“We will also be focusing on bringing up head teachers who will be primary agents of change as they have a significant impact on students,” said the Laboratory leader Datuk Noor Rezan Bapoo Hashim.
To raise literacy and numeracy rates, a special literacy and numeracy curriculum has been designed to cater for the needs of special children.
“We want to increase the number of remedial teachers in the country from one teacher per school to one teacher to 15 students,” she said yesterday.
“Through upskilling, redeployment and with the new intake of graduate teachers, we can fill in the demand for this need of remedial teachers,” Noor Rezan said to a question.
One participant, who wished to be named only as Foo, said the changes looked good, but much more could be done.
“What I see are incremental changes. There should be a total revamp of the system,” he said, adding that just having a policy is not enough.
While many applaud the high performing schools plan, some raised concerns over the missing emphasis on English in the NKRA, as the policy of teaching Mathematics and Science in English will end in 2012.
Answering that, Noor Rezan said although it might not be in the NKRA, the matter would be addressed in the new strategy to uphold Bahasa Malaysia and strengthen English.
“It will run as a separate programme in tandem with what we are doing here,” she said.
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