Teacher Training: Malaysian Scenario

In Malaysia, secondary school teachers are trained by Government funded universities and primary school teachers through 27 Institutes of Teacher Education located across the country. In the pre service level students are required to take a compulsory course on technology and teaching and learning and an additional subject of computer aided instruction. The study of these courses and subjects enables them to acquire competencies in using ICT based materials for transacting the content in the classrooms.

At the in service level the training programmes of one- to five-day duration are organised to update teachers about the content, new development and practices. Also provision has been made for the non graduate teacher to acquire a degree thorough an open university.

Among the initiatives undertaken by the Malaysian Government to improve professional development of teachers in the context of ICT include:
  1. The Smart Teacher Training Course.
  2. 14 weeks of Professional Development of teachers in ICT.
  3. A one year full time specialist training.

The Ministry of Education with support from different agencies such as Microsoft and UNESCO has made an attempt to develop the capacity of persons to work as ICT leaders, who could use ICT in teacher training courses. Through the Malaysian grid for learning programme,  teachers are able to have access to teaching learning materials. To overcome the funding constraints the Government made a budget provision of RM 12,888 million for ICT related programmes.

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Read through the article "Teacher Professional Development in Malaysia: Issues and Challenges" by Hazri Jamil, Nordin Abd. Razak, Reena Raju and Abdul Rashid Mohamed.

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Go through the article "Malaysia's Experience in Training Teachers to Use ICT" by Bismillah Khatoon Bhinti Abdul Khader.

List :

  1. The objectives of Teachers' Continuing Professional Development in ICT (BBPT).
  2. The anticipated skills to be acquired by the teachers in using ICT.
  3. The feedback of the teachers who participated in BBPT Programme.


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Please read the report titled "Microsoft Partners in Learning Programmes in Five ASEAN Countries" (p.23). This article discusses the case studies of training teachers of ASEAN countries to use ICT. The study examines the impact of the programme in facilitating the integration of ICT into education among five countries, namely Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.

Source: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0015/001567/156757e.pdf (Accessed 22March 2012)


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