State Education Dept calls for revival of LPBS school-based training for teachers
Fatimah (left), with Serina on her left and Rakayah her right, chairs the meeting at her office.
KUCHING: The state Education Department will table a proposal to the Education Ministry today on reviving the School-Based Teachers
Training (LPBS) programme, which was discontinued in 2005.
According to Welfare, Women and Family Development Minister Datuk Fatimah Abdullah, the three-year course is aimed at realising the state’s target of having 90 per cent of its teaching workforce to comprise Sarawakians by 2018.
Apart from this, LPBS will enable Sarawak to produce the numbers and at the same time, match the teachers with the primary school subjects that they have learned and taken command of throughout the programme.
“The participants will each receive a teaching certificate upon completion of the programme. Under the proposal, local (Sarawak) teachers would only have to fill vacancies based on their teaching subjects.
“Say one (non-Sarawakian) geography teacher is transferring out of Sarawak, another (Sarawakian) geography teacher would have to take his or her place. This is where it gets to be a challenging task,” Fatimah said during a press conference at her office here yesterday.
The minister also pointed out that the state Education Department projected a decline in primary school teachers by 1,633 in 2018, due to transfers.
“The most drastic would be the (projected) shortfall of 490 teachers of Islamic Studies, 120 teachers of Physical Education, and 100 teachers for Rehabilitation Classes.
“The only way to tackle this shortage is to have LPBS programme again in Sarawak.”
Fatimah also disclosed that 782 primary schools teachers from Peninsular Malaysia had applied for transfers out of the state next year. The number, she added, was expected to increase to 1,042 transfers for 2017, and 1,303 for 2018.
At present, there are 5,212 teachers from the peninsula serving in Sarawak.
Fatimah said apart from LPBS, the department would also be looking at credited teachers who had completed their course at teachers education institutes (IPGs) nationwide and universities within the three-year period.
On secondary school teachers, the minister viewed this sector as being less problematic than those for primary schools. Nevertheless, she stressed on the priority of producing quality teachers to ensure that they would be able to produce quality students slated for the nation’s human capital development.
The press conference was also attended by state Education Department director Rakayah Madon, Institut Aminuddin Baki director Serina Sauni, Sarawak Bumiputera Teachers Union president Ahmad Malie and Sarawak Teachers Union president Jisin Nyud.
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My comments:
It is learning through teaching and teaching through learning just as what Confucius said (教学并进)。 What can be better than School-Based Teachers Training Programme? Why was it disconnected in the first place?
Never let 1 person or 2 from remote area to remote control us especially the 1who knows so little about education pointing their index finger /that 1-like finger to direct us.
Teachers should be more assertive and adamant on the ground which they know best. Don't compromise in anyway for any bad policy which serves no purpose but the lust and fancy of the power wielder.
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