The document summarizes the key differences between the Kurikulum Standard Sekolah Rendah (KSSR) and Kurikulum Standard Sekolah Menengah (KSSM) curriculums in Malaysia. KSSR focuses on developing students' basic language skills and was implemented in 2011, while KSSM aims to better prepare students for the job market and was launched in 2017. Both curriculums have advantages like improving skills and assessments, but also disadvantages such as increased workload for teachers. Suggestions are provided to address issues like providing teacher training support.

1. DED 2013 PHILOSOPHY OF
EDUCATION
PROJECT
Differences Between KSSR
and KSSM

2. GROUP MEMBERS
TAYATUL ADAWIYAH BINTI TAUFEK
SHARMILAH A/P SELVARAJAN
REBEKAH GAN
NOORHAYATI BINTI ZAKARIA
NUUR AMIERA BINTI ZAINAL ABIDIN

3. Introduction

4. KURIKULUM STANDARD
SEKOLAH RENDAH
(KSSR)

5.  To reorganized ready-made curricular
 Equips students with sufficient
knowledge, skills and relevant values
 The implementation of KSSR - to ignite a
genuine interest in English subject

6. • CONTENT STANDARD (standard kandungan)
A specific statement that students should
acknowledge and practise in schooling
duration
• LESSON STANDARD (standard pembelajaran)
A criteria dictation where it can be
measured by every content standard.

7. • English Subject
Highlights on literature & mathematical, spiritual
values and self-welfare
• English Teacher
New type of teaching materials such as songs,
charades, choral speaking
• Language Arts Module
To promote edutainment and language appreciation.
• New Concept Of Evaluation
PBS ( Pentaksiran Berasaskan Sekolah)
Teachers have to evaluate students’ achievements
online

8. Advantages
of KSSR

9. • Improving student’s skill, educational emphases and
the way of assessment towards students and
organization.
• Development of basic language and improving
student’s level of proficiency
• Focuses 5 skills
- reading, writing, listening, speaking &
language arts
-Combined listening and speaking skills
-Teacher-centered learning
-Teacher carry out the activity in classroom
-This activity should have student’s response
towards various material in classroom

10. Students
• Developing students’ interpersonal
and intrapersonal

11. Teachers
Teacher’s roles
• Identify the students’ potential
• Create fun learning environment in classroom
Improvement In Assessment on Student’s Academic
• one - one assessment individually
• creates the students profile to evaluate the students
through language development
• able know identify student’s ability and improvement
in their academic easily.

12. Two Stages of KSSR
STAGE ONE STAGE TWO
• Year 1, 2 and 3
• No longer focused on
grammar
• More stressed on
developing basic
language to build their
proficiency in learning
language
• Year 4, 5 and 6
• Emphasize grammar in
their learning

13. Disadvantages
of KSSR

14. • The role of the teacher become harder and
burdening due to having a lot of paperwork
to be done in short of time
• Number of English period increased -
Teacher become more stressful and restless
• Increased paperwork - makes the teachers
feel burden
• Lacking of English teachers - Periods for
English class has been increased

15. Lack of Knowledge in ICT
• Senior Teachers - Facing problems in
completing their student’s assessment
• It is hard for them to key in the band of the
student’s achievement without ICT knowledge
• It becomes more stressful when the servers are
down
• It is hard for the teacher to complete the
evaluation of their students if it happens –
reducing their quality family time

16. FEEDBACK ON KSSR

17. USE OF TECHNOLOGY IN CLASSROOM LEARNING
• makes lessons especially language classes to be
live and interesting
• Helps both teachers and students to teach and
learn effectively
Teacher’s Roles
• to build students’ character by instilling
moral values through language lesson
• to mould students’ inner morality as they learn
to use the technologies wiser and intelligently
• encourage students to apply their acquired
knowledge and skills

18. SUGGESTIONS & COMMENTS ON
KSSR

19. Suggestion
Ministry of Education
• Reduce the evaluation period of students’ comprehension
by teachers in classroom
Comments
• PBS only give priority to assess students’ writing skill
than other main skills such reading, listening and
speaking skills
• Reform and design a s proper version of education system
that are more flexible in time to work for teachers

20. KURIKULUM STANDARD
SEKOLAH MENENGAH
(KSSM)

21. • to pursuit of economic growth and national development
Government + Ministry of Education
• think the way to improving our educational system in
Malaysia
• decided to launch new KSSM and revise the KSSR in 2017
• to develop a new national education blueprint
• emphasis on
-problem based and project-based work
-streamlined set of subjects or theme
-formative assessments
• supports an accelerated learning pathway for high-performing
students to complete

22. • SPM (Sijil Pelajaran
Malaysia) - 4 years
• UPSR (Ujian Penilaian
Sekolah Rendah)
- 5 years

23. ADVANTAGES OF KSSM

24. • embeds a balanced set of knowledge and skills
• an upgrading of English skills among teachers
• the study method will be reviewed to add
activities like role-playing, stimulations,
discussions, and small-group assignments.
• academic and career counselling services build
into the secondary school timetable

25. DISADVANTAGES OF KSSM

26. • Operational proficiency in English – much lower
• Students will inherit a world fraught with
challenges, from environmental degradation to armed
conflict
• Lessons did not sufficiently engage students, and
followed a more passive, lecture format of content
delivery
• Today’s principals received no preparatory or
induction training before or during their formative
first three years of principal ship
• Both national and international data suggest that
Malaysian schools are spreading across a wide
performance spectrum

27. POSITIVE & NEGATIVE
EFFECTS OF KSSM

28. TEACHERS STUDENTS

29. TEACHER
Positive effects
• Raising and reinforcing entry standards into teacher
training programmes
• Teachers are able to improve the effectiveness of
pre-service and continuous professional development
• Teachers are able to develop exciting new career
pathways that support fast-tracking based on
performance and competencies along with opportunities
for redeployment for consistent underperformers

30. NEGATIVE EFFECTS
• Teachers are not able to focus on their teachings
as they have to spend most of their time on
administrative work
• Slow run of internet in schools, teachers find it
a troubled to key in the data of each students
• Not all teachers are well equipped with the
knowledge of technology devices

31. STUDENTS
POSITIVE EFFECTS
• Every child in Malaysia, regardless of wealth, ethnicity
or background, deserves equal access to a quality
education that will enable the students to achieve his
or her potential.
• all students will have the opportunity to attain an
excellent education
• Malaysian school system aspires to halve the socio-economic,
urban-rural and gender achievements gaps in
student outcomes by 2020
• uniquely diverse nation has been to foster unity
• being able to lead and work effectively with others is
critical

32. POSITIVE EFFECTS
• Operationally proficient in Bahasa Malaysia as the
national language and language of unity, and in English
as the international language of communication
• inculcate strong ethics and spirituality
• sense of national identity
• make significant gains in their development irrespective
of their background
• learn in an environment where the fundamental belief
• have a richer school experience, both academic and non-academic,
so that they can excel in life
• have greater say in shaping their learning experience

33. NEGATIVE EFFECTS
• have to get used to the style of learning
whereby they no longer should focus on
teacher centred way of learning attitude
• students might find it hard to cope with
the new approach
• national examinations and assessments will
be revamped to enhance on high level
thinking skills

34. FEEDBACK ON KSSM

35. Malaysia national philosophy of education
• students in Malaysia have been used with
the ‘spoon-fed’ due to passive learning
Malaysia Kini
• it is good because it aspires to further
maximize students’ outcomes within the
current budget level
Star Online
• this new curriculum is good because it is
to lay out clear learning standards so that
students and parents understand the
progress expected within each year of
schooling

36. SUGGESTIONS &
COMMENTS ON KSSM

37. Comments
• New curriculum standards better compared to the
old one
• It is hard to adapt something new - they are used
to old system
• It is hard for the teacher to change the current
delivering to the students by using the new
curriculum
• Teachers may not have the skills to develop the
higher-order thinking skills in their students
• Assessment that tests higher-order thinking skills
causes depression in students’ examination
performance in the short term.

38. Suggestions
Government should provide a special training for
teachers:
showing how to use the standardized scheme of work and
lesson plan
modelling active learning pedagogies promoted in the
lesson plans.
assessment and moderation
New education curriculum should:
standardized and linked scheme of work, lesson plans
and student materials for all core subjects

40. KBSR KSSR
INTRODUCTION 1982 2009
PREVIOUS SYSTEM
KLSR
(Kurikulum Lama
Sekolah Rendah)
KBSR
IMPLEMENTATION
1982 - Primary
1983 - Secondary
2011
SKILLS
Reading, Writing and
Arithmetic
Reading, Writing
Arithmetic and Reasoning
Skills
ASSESSMENT
Summative
- UPSR
Formative
- PBS
AIM OF ENGLISH
LANGUAGE
Learning of basic skills
Promoting skills for
development

42. • KBSM did not focus on the importance
of students’ preparations to face
outside world including employment
part. However, the new KSSM system
seems to have that in it
• The hours promoted in KSSM are also
differ

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