Looks like I can't wait for 2012 to start blogging again :) Too long a rest is numbing my brains to be honest. First, I want to share this national convention on Lesson Study, a Teacher Division Programme under the NKRA initiative to improve teacher quality.
| (courtesy: The Star Online) | |||||||||||||||
Dr Azian with (from right) Prof Isoda, Prof Insprasitha and Prof Kuno at the seminar.
THE Education Ministry has asked 289 secondary schools (under
Band 6 and 7 of the school ranking system) to adopt the “Lesson Study”
programme in an effort to improve teaching practises.
The
programme under the Professional Learning Community (PLC) concept, is a
new initiative under the Ministry’s New Key Result Area (NKRA), which is
aimed at improving the education system in the schools.
Band 6 and Band 7 is reserved for the lowest-performing schools in the school ranking system.
Dr
Azian Abdullah, director of Southeast Asian Ministers of Education
Organisation - Regional Centre for Education in Science and Mathematics
(Seameo-Recsam) said the programme initiated by the Teacher Training
Division (TTD) was aimed at improving the educators’ teaching methods
and brought about a better learning experience among students.
“The
programme has been adopted in Japan for over a century and is now being
applied by teachers in schools here,” she said when opening the two-day
‘National Open Class Lesson Study 2011’ seminar at the Seameo-Recsam
premises in Penang.
The programme involves three stages of
implementation where a participating teacher would be selected to
prepare the learning tools to teach the students. The teacher would then instruct and coach the students under the close observation of her colleague. Professional
Development Sector (PDS) deputy director Sukeman Suradi said four core
subjects, English, Mathematics, Science and History were chosen for the
programme. PDS is a sector under TTD.
Prof Hiroyuki Kuno
from Aichi University of Education in Japan and Prof Maitree Insprasitha
from Khon Kaen University in Thailand were invited to deliver talks
during the two-day seminar. Also present was Prof Masami Isoda from
University of Tsukuba in Japan who is an expert in Lesson Study.
The Thinking Teacher
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