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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 />
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