Smart School,vision School

CURRENT EDUCATION Education Act 1996 Smart Schools Vision School KIA 2M prepared by : Maryam Nur Syaheeda Wahib Mohd. Shahril Izwan Mustafa Mohd. Nur ‘Izzuddin Mohd. Zain Raizatul Akmal Rujunaidi

This act have 16 parts. • Part 1: PRELIMINARY • Part 2: ADMINISTRATION • Part 3: NATIONAL EDUCATION ADVISORY COUNCIL • Part 4:NATIONAL EDUCATION SYSTEM • Part 5:ASSESSMENT AND EXAM1NATION • Part 6:HIGHER EDUCATION • Part 7:PRIVATE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS • Part 8:REGISTRATION OF EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS • Part 9:REGISTRATION OF TEACHERS • Part 10:THE INSPECTORATE OF SCHOOLS • Part 11:FINANCE • Part 12:APPEALS • Part 13:REGULATIONS • Part 14:OFFENCES AND PENALTIES • Part 15:MISCELLANEOUS • Part 16:TRANSITIONAL AND REPEAL

o One of the seven flagship applications that are part of Malaysia’s Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) project. o This will be done by creating a group of 90 pilot Smart Schools by 1999. o The objective of this programme is all 10,000 of Malaysia’s primary and secondary schools will be Smart Schools by 2010. o It entails aligning the curriculum, pedagogy, assessment and teaching-learning materials in a mutually reinforcing, coherent manner

CURRICULLUM  Shall be meaningful, socially responsible, multicultural, reflective, holistic, global, open-ended, goal-based and technological.  It shall promote holistic learning, allowing children to progress at their own pace, and catering for students’ varying capabilities, interests and needs.  It will seek to ensure that children are educated with critical and creative thinking skills, inculcated with appropriate values, and encouraged to improve their language proficiency.

The curriculum will be designed to: • help students to achieve overall balanced development • integrate knowledge, skills, values, and correct use of language • state explicitly intended learning outcomes for different ability levels • offer multidisciplinary, thematic, and continuous learning • foster the knowledge, skills, and attitudes appropriate for success in the Information Age.

PEDAGOGY  The Smart School pedagogy will seek to make learning : -more interesting, motivating, stimulating, and meaningful -involve the children’s minds, spirit, and bodies in the learning process - build basic skills to prepare children for greater challenges over time -and cater for a range of needs and capabilities among the students.

The pedagogy shall:  use an appropriate mix of learning strategies to ensure mastery of basic competencies and promote holistic development.  accommodate individual different learning styles, so as to boost performance.  foster a classroom atmosphere that is compatible with different teaching-learning strategies.

ASSESSMEN T  To help realise the National Philosophy of Education.  It shall be element-based and criterion-referenced to provide a more holistic and accurate picture of a student’s performance.  Teachers, students and parents will be able to access on-line assessment items.  Smart School assessment will be flexible and learner-friendly,  assuring the quality of the assessment information by using multiple approaches and instruments.  It will lead to living certification, which will not only attest to a student’s cumulative accomplishments but will also be open to continued improvement on a lifetime basis.

TEACHING LEARNING MATERIALS  Smart Schools will need teaching-learning

materials designed for the new teaching strategies.  These materials will accommodate students’ differing needs and abilities, resulting in fuller realisation of their capabilities and potential, and allow students to take greater responsibility for managing and directing their own learning.

Fully equipping a school might include the following:  Classrooms with multimedia courseware and presentation facilities, and e-mail or groupware for collaborative work.  Library/Media Centre with a database centre for multimedia courseware, and network resources like access to the internet.  Computer laboratory for teaching, such as Computer Studies as a subject, and readily accessible multimedia and audiovisual equipment.  Multimedia Development Centre with tools for creating multimedia materials and catering to varying levels of sophistication.  Studio/Theatrette with a control room for centralised audiovisual equipment, videoconferencing studio, preview room for audio, video, or laser disc materials.  Teachers’ Room with on-line access to courseware catalogues and databases, information and resource management systems, professional networking tools, such as e-mail and groupware.  Administration Offices capable of managing databases of student and facilities, tracking student and teacher performance or resources, and distributing notices and other information electronically.  Server Room equipped to handle applications, management databases, and web servers; provide security; and telecommunications interface and access to network resources.

 Vision Schools are primary schools which are based on the concept of learning together in the same area without concerning races or religions  This concept means that two or three different schools with different course will be placed in same area with each school having their own building which can be linked each other by the link-way

 Malaysia has 5 Vision Schools which have operated successfully, in present: • Kompleks Sekolah Wawasan Pekan Baru, Parit Buntar, Perak • Kompleks Sekolah Wawasan Taman Aman, Alor Setar, Kedah • Kompleks Sekolah Wawasan Tasik Permai, Pulau Pinang • Kompleks Sekolah Wawasan USJ 15, Subang Jaya, Selangor • Kompleks Sekolah Wawasan Pundut, Seri Manjung, Perak

 The ministry had introduced the "early intervention classes for reading and writing (KIA 2M)” to provide basic skills for Standard One pupils in national and vernacular schools.  This is also to identify those students who are actually handicapped in reading and writing, a disability better known as dyslexia and ensure that they are sent to special schools to deal with such disability.

FOCUS ON “P&P” STRATEG Nomination Test Straining Planning Teaching Assessment Further action

TECHNIQUE S

Using various techniques are so important in order to; attract pupils, maintain their attention and encourage their inquiries, in achieving the lesson Objectives. The techniques included :  Drills  Guidelines  Questioning and answering  Playing the roles  Singing  Acting  Quiz

The process of mastering the basic skills for reading and writing will be more effective if the pupils get more various opportunities to help them understand certain concepts. Therefore, the teachers are responsible in planning various techniques, ABM and activities so that the pupils will have better understanding during the lesson.