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Focus Area Enhancements and Initiatives
School Improvement
Programme (SIP) and District
Transformation Programme
Malaysia Education Blueprint 2013 - 2025
Appendix III: National Dialogue Feedback
The success of the SIP in GTP 1.0 confirmed the importance of targeting weaker schools and providing
them with coordinated support to improve. This effort will continue under GTP2.0 through the District
Transformation Programme with focus on greater empowerment and accountability of the State
Education Department or JPN and District Education Offices or PPDs. These are at the frontline and
closest to the schools and therefore best placed to support schools. Initiatives include:
▪ Revising the role of JPNs and PPDs to empower them and make them accountable for providing
support to the schools;
▪ Creating standard KPIs at the school, district, state and national levels via new dashboards and
rankings; and
▪ Targeting interventions towards schools that need it most. For example, deploying more full-time
teachers coaches to district offices to support schools, regular performance dialogues at the level of
states, districts and schools to instil discipline in monitoring, problem-solving and following through
on actions, etc.
PPDs will be supported with additional training and resources to fulfil their new roles and platforms will
be established for PPDs to share best practices.
Principal Career Package The New Deal initiative from GTP 1.0 that rewarded high-performing school principals and head teachers
proved to be an effective mechanism to motivate and incentivise school leaders, and will be continued in
GTP 2.0. Additional initiatives on principal succession planning and principal fast-tracking will be added,
specifically:
▪ The selection process for principals will be optimised and shortened in order to identify successors for
an outgoing principal, ideally six months before actual retirement date;
▪ Creation of a centralised system to recruit from a candidate pool whose readiness has been preassessed;
▪ Revision of incentives to attract quality candidates to rural schools;
▪ Providing support to help principals transition into a new school; and
▪ Clear competency-based criteria as basis for selection, evaluation, promotion and continuous
professional development of principals will be established.
Teacher Career Package Better equipping and rewarding teachers for delivering high student outcomes remains a core objective.
Additional initiatives have been added to GTP2.0 towards this goal, namely:
Upskilling of English language
teachers
▪ New competency-based pathways to create exciting career opportunities for teachers, including fasttracking
for high performers;
▪ Creation of a single unified evaluative instrument focusing on teaching and learning, combining best
elements from the five existing evaluation instruments, and incorporating student outcomes;
▪ Continuous Professional Development (CPD) Masterplan to provide tailored support to each teacher;
and
▪ New standards for CPD, new entry standards and monitoring mechanism for recruitment of new
teachers , and career-long support and evaluation of teachers.
The objective of this focus area is to remedy the standard of English language proficiency of Malaysian
students by improving the way the language is taught in schools and by raising the proficiency and skills
of English language teachers. Consequently, all English language teachers will have their proficiency in
English language assessed. Remedial programmes have been put in place to retrain English language
teachers that do not meet international proficiency standards.
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