2. The main focus of SBCD remains on the school and is needs.
• - The school is a natural location for curriculum development to take place.
• - Teachers are natural participants in the process.
For SBCD to succeed, need to identify good learning environments.
Teachers to acquire new skills and new ways of thinking
With SBCD, curriculum development can become the medium for profesional
development.
SBCD is a practical activity that engages teachers in reflecting on their own
practise, taking risks with new and innovative practices and seeking to improve
programs of teaching and learning.
in practical terms, SBCD produces materials for teachers to use in schools and
teachers learn from the process that produces the materials. SBCD could form the
basis of a comprehensive program of profesional renewal for all teachers at some
stage in their career.
3. Schools and education authorities cannot manage SBCD on their own.
SBCD giving an opportunity for developing collaborative relationships between
education authorities, schools and higher education institutions.
SBCD can equips teachers with skills of curriculum analysiss, curriculum policy
development and materials creation.
Both employers and employees need to think carefully about how to do the work of
schools more effectively, more efficiently and with a greater payoff for students.
Educators and policymakers should agree we need to prepare students for 21st
century.
Young people in schools can only benefit from a process that makes their teachers
more highly skilled and more knowledgeable
5. AUSTRALIAN COMPARISON MALAYSIA
Education Departments (state
and federal) Curriculum
Corporation
Agency initiating
curriculum
development
Curriculum Development Centre
Consulting with committees
representing stakeholder
groups; consulting with media
(press); consulting at school
level with parents, community;
surveying schools to review
policy, school pilots.
Input of
Stakeholders in
Curriculum
Development
Participating in curriculum
design; adopting resolutions and
suggestions from seminars,
conferences, and workshops;
issuing memorandums
Civics and social studies Curriculum focus Single medium of instruction
Core subjects for all.
Languages of migrant groups Languages National language as medium of
instruction. Ethnic language for
school instruction at primary
level.
6. AUSTRALIAN COMPARISON MALAYSIA
Rent or Purchase by Parents Provision of Textbooks and
Other Materials
Provide by goverments
Parents and Local
Community
Community Support for
Curriculum Developmen
PTA, Local Community,
NGO, Bussiness Comunity
Structured observation;
written and standardized
test
- Report student progress;
curriculum development
Assessment Paper-and-pencil tests;
teacher observation folios;
practical work.
- To report student
progress; diagnosis;
teaching effectiveness
Yes, at 12 - Certification;
entry to higher education
External Examination
System
Standard 6 –UPSR
Form 3 – PT3
Form 5 - SPM