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teachers<br />

Subtopic Example topic raised in the<br />

National Dialogue<br />

Quality The Ministry should raise<br />

the profile of the teaching<br />

profession to make it a<br />

profession of choice and ensure<br />

a high standard of quality.<br />

Focus The Ministry should ensure<br />

that teachers spend more<br />

time on teaching activities<br />

and less time on non-teaching<br />

activities, and should employ<br />

non-teaching staff for<br />

administrative work.<br />

Training The Ministry should provide<br />

teachers with continuous<br />

professional development<br />

and inculcate a culture of<br />

continuous learning and<br />

improvement among teachers<br />

to attain world-class teaching<br />

standards.<br />

Performance<br />

management<br />

The Ministry should improve<br />

the teacher evaluation system,<br />

and link it to performance in<br />

order to raise the quality of our<br />

teachers.<br />

The Ministry should give<br />

teachers recognition for taking<br />

the time and effort to gain a<br />

higher qualification (such as a<br />

Masters or Ph.D.).<br />

The Ministry should base<br />

teacher allowances on their<br />

roles and responsibilities.<br />

The Ministry should improve<br />

residential facilities for<br />

teachers in rural areas.<br />

Malaysia Education <strong>Blueprint</strong> 2013 - 2025<br />

Appendix III: National Dialogue Feedback<br />

Ministry response/action Reference<br />

The Ministry will revitalise the teaching profession by: (i) raising the<br />

bar for entry; (ii) increasing investment in continuous professional<br />

development and teacher support; (iii) enabling fast-track<br />

progression based on competency and performance, not tenure; (iv)<br />

enforcing redeployment to non-teaching roles or voluntary exit of<br />

consistently under-performing teachers; and (v) formalising different<br />

career tracks based on teachers’ skills and interests.<br />

The Ministry will reduce teachers’ administrative burden by<br />

streamlining existing data collection and integrating management<br />

information systems to eliminate duplicate requests and to simplify<br />

the data entry process. The Ministry will also gradually redeploy<br />

some teachers into dedicated support, data management and analyst<br />

roles.<br />

As described above, the Ministry will enhance continuous<br />

professional development by developing its portfolio of training<br />

programmes to explicitly link training to competency requirements.<br />

The Ministry is also focusing on school-based training and coaching<br />

such as the deployment of full-time SISC+ for teachers in Band 5, 6,<br />

and 7 schools.<br />

The Ministry is developing a single instrument that clearly articulates<br />

the competencies expected of teachers, particularly with regard<br />

to teaching and learning. This instrument will be used during the<br />

annual evaluation, replacing all existing instruments. The Ministry is<br />

also committed to moving to a competency- and performance-based<br />

progression system, instead of one based primarily on tenure.<br />

The Ministry is refining the existing career pathway and progression<br />

system, and will take into consideration the competencies yielded by<br />

higher qualifications.<br />

The Ministry will review salaries and allowances on an ongoing basis<br />

to ensure fair compensation corresponding to workload, competency<br />

levels and student outcomes achieved.<br />

The welfare of teachers is an important focus area for the Ministry.<br />

The Ministry will first upgrade basic infrastructure facilities for all<br />

schools such as water and electricity supply, and ensuring structural<br />

safety. Once this has been achieved, the Ministry will focus on<br />

baseline infrastructure improvements, which includes improvements<br />

to residential facilities.<br />

Chapter 5<br />

Chapter 5<br />

Chapter 5<br />

Chapter 5<br />

Chapter 5<br />

Chapter 5<br />

Chapter 6<br />

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