This document discusses the challenges of implementing smart schools in Malaysia. It begins with defining smart schools as learning institutions that have been reformed to prepare students for the digital age using technologies like multimedia. The goals of smart schools are outlined as developing well-rounded individuals, nurturing strengths, creating a tech-savvy workforce, increasing education access, and encouraging stakeholder participation. Some challenges are resistance from senior teachers accustomed to traditional methods, lack of infrastructure in rural schools, insufficient technical support staff, unwilling parents, and students wanting spoon-fed learning instead of discovery. Overcoming these obstacles requires commitment from the Ministry of Education to provide resources, training teachers, gaining parent cooperation, and adapting student expectations.

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2. CHALLENGES OF
IMPLEMENTATIONS
OF SMART SCHOOL IN
MALAYSIA

3. INTRODUCTION
What is smart school ?
Malaysia smart school is a learning institution that has been systemically
reinvented in terms of teaching-learning practices and school management in
order to prepare children for the Information Age.
History of Smart School
The smart school is prepared with all the technologies that are needed to extending
from the school level up to the nation level, Smart school is equipped with
technology that can facilitating teaching and learning process such as multimedia,
and assists the school management. It provides all-round development with
provision for individual abilities, offering a broad curriculum for all, with electives
that is vertically integrated, multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary. Next, it
emphasizes intellectual, emotional, spiritual and physical growth.

4.  Goals of smart schools in Malaysia.
• The smart school initiative has five main goals which focus on the need to develop
a skilled work force for the Information Age and to promote the goal of the
National Philosophy of Education.
All round development of the individuals
(intellectual, physical, emotional, spiritual)
Provision to develop individual strengths and abilities
Produce a thinking and technology-literate workforce
Democratize education
Increase participation of stakeholder

5. CHALLENGES OF IMPLEMENTATIONS
OF SMART SCHOOL IN MALAYSIA
Leadership and top
management
• The most challenging part
to build a smart school are
top management which
may refer to the Ministry
of Education that wants to
improve our education
system to be better and
effective. But how
committed they are?
Teachers
• From previous studies
which found out that a
teacher especially senior
teachers who has been
used to the traditional
methods of teaching face
difficulties to adapt
instructional technology.

6. Lack of infrastructure,
support materials and
accessibility
• Slow internet access
• There are also some
schools that does not
have complete ICT
equipment in their
school especially for
those schools in the
rural area.
Lack of skill,
technology support
and technician
• Each computer lab
will need at least a
technician if there is
any problem
• However, almost
every school where
there are no skilled
technician to solve
this problem.

7. Parents
• Some of the parents
are unwilling to
cooperate while some
of them assumed that
is the responsibility of
the teacher in school
as they already sent
their children to
school
Students
• Students have no
choice on what to
learn and when to sit
for exam.
• Students were always
hoping that every
material is provided
by their teacher and
not obtain nor
discover by
themselves

8. CONCLUSION
• Smart schools implementation is supposed to ease the teaching
and learning process and also improve our education system
• It is not easy to implement smart schools in Malaysia. There are
challenges that need to be face by the students, parents, teachers
and also the Ministry of Education.
• All students, parents, teachers and also the Ministry of Education
need to play their role effectively so that the implementations of
smart schools in Malaysia will be successful.

9. •Ministry of Education have to provide a complete computer infrastructure and
internet access for the teaching and learning methods especially in the rural area.
•Next, teachers also need to accept this changes for a better teaching and learning
process.
•Other than that, parents also need to monitor and teach their children on the new
way of teaching and learning process and does not only depends on the teachers.
•Last but not least, students also have to accept the new changes in the education
system as it is for their own good.
•Smart schools concept brought more excitement in the learning and teaching
process as both teachers and students can explore more on the topic they were
teaching or learning.

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