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▪ Enhanced practicum in vocational programmes through<br />
greater private sector collaboration: The Ministry is working<br />
with the industry to implement industry recognised curriculum<br />
in its vocational colleges. A key component of this curriculum<br />
is practicum placements to provide students with relevant work<br />
experience.<br />
▪ Ministry transformation beginning with best leaders<br />
placed in pivotal JPN and PPD positions: The Ministry<br />
is redefining the roles of the JPN and PPD. Instead of being<br />
predominantly administrative managers, the JPN and PPD will<br />
be empowered to provide direct (and tailored) support to schools.<br />
With this redefinition of roles, the Ministry will deploy capable<br />
employees to the critical positions of JPN and PPD leaders.<br />
Wave 2 (2016 to 2020): accelerate system<br />
improvement<br />
The focus during this phase will be to accelerate the pace of<br />
improvement by consolidating gains made during the first wave, and<br />
addressing each of the fundamental levers that underpin the execution<br />
ability of the Ministry. To this end, improvements will be made in the<br />
following areas during this period:<br />
▪ Enhance teacher coaching and support: The Ministry will<br />
further strengthen the CPD programmes offered, allow for further<br />
individualisation of CPD plans, and improve the delivery of both<br />
academic and non-academic components of the curriculum.<br />
▪ Competency and performance-based progression, enhanced<br />
career pathways and improved pre-service training rolledout:<br />
The Ministry will launch a revised pre-service teacher education<br />
curriculum in IPGs that better reflects the new competencies<br />
expected of teachers. It will also discuss with MOHE incorporating<br />
similar curriculum at IPTAs. It will roll out faster progression<br />
based fully on merit and competency rather than tenure and an<br />
integrated professional development system linked to performance<br />
management. Enhanced pathways will be developed to allow teachers<br />
to progress based on interests and skills. Teachers who consistently<br />
underperform, despite concerted support, will be redeployed to other<br />
school-based functions such as data or discipline management.<br />
▪ New secondary and revised primary curriculum rolled<br />
out: The Ministry will roll out the new KSSM, and an updated<br />
KSSR, in 2017. This curriculum will still stress student-centred and<br />
differentiated teaching, but have a greater emphasis on problembased<br />
and project-based work, a streamlined set of subjects or<br />
themes, and formative assessments. The new curriculum will also<br />
support an accelerated learning pathway for high-performing<br />
students to complete the SPM in four rather than five years and<br />
the UPSR in five rather than six years. Additionally, clear learning<br />
standards will be laid out so that students and parents understand<br />
the progress expected within each year of schooling.<br />
▪ Peralihan class ended, options for increased <strong>Eng</strong>lish<br />
language exposure piloted and additional language<br />
provision strengthened: The peralihan class, which provided<br />
remedial support for students struggling in Bahasa Malaysia<br />
will be stopped, with the expectation that students will receive<br />
remedial support at an earlier stage. Next, the Ministry will<br />
explore introducing options to promote increased <strong>Eng</strong>lish<br />
language exposure such as expanding the compulsory <strong>Eng</strong>lish<br />
Literature component in secondary schools. Once the Ministry<br />
has strengthened the standards of Bahasa Malaysia and <strong>Eng</strong>lish<br />
language in the current school system, it will look into ways to<br />
encourage the learning of additional languages. For example, it will<br />
train and deploy more Chinese, Tamil and Arabic language teachers<br />
to primary and secondary schools.<br />
▪ ICT innovations: With the basics in place the Ministry will start<br />
to explore how innovations, particularly relating to distance and<br />
self-paced learning could be used to expand access to high quality<br />
teaching regardless of a student’s location or skill level.<br />
▪ Enhanced programmes for groups with specific needs:<br />
Groups such as Indigenous and other Minority Groups (IOM), gifted<br />
and talented students, and special needs students frequently have<br />
needs that are not sufficiently catered to in the mainstream system.<br />
During Wave 2, the Ministry will roll out an accelerated learning<br />
pathway option for high-performing students, and a gifted and<br />
talented programme for the top 1% of every student cohort. The<br />
Ministry will also strengthen existing programmes for special needs