This document outlines the history and objectives of the Textbook Division in Malaysia. It was originally established in 1969 to manage textbooks and was known as the Textbook Bureau. Over the years it has been restructured and renamed. The division now has 7 sectors and its objectives are to ensure accurate and quality textbook procurement, production, and adequate textbook supply to schools. It produces textbooks, teacher guides, CD-ROMs, Braille textbooks, and talking textbooks to meet the needs of students.

1. PRESENTED BY

3. 1969 Managed by the School Division .
1971 The management was reverted to the Education Planning &
Research Division
1972 Known as the Textbook Bureau & operated as an independent
entity responsible to the Director General of Education Malaysia
1975 Implementation of the Textbook Loan Scheme by the Textbook
Bureau
1983 Implementation of the Textbook Loan Scheme in Religious
Secondary Schools
1988 The name Textbook Bureau was changed to Textbook Division
pursuant to a resolution of Education Planning Committee Meeting
No 102 on 15th July 1988
2002 The Division was restructured from 3 to 7 sectors in accordance
with the school Division

5. OBJECTIVES
1. To ensure the procurement of textbook
is accurate to the Treasury Instructions.
2. To ensure quality certified textbook
based on a set of quality control
process.
3. To ensure adequate textbooks
supplied to the designated school.

8. THE INTEGRATED CURRICULUM FOR PRIMARY
SCHOOLS TEXTBOOK PACKAGES (KBSR)
INTRODUCTION
• It prepares pupils with the knowledge to face
globalization in the 21st century.
• The textbooks are written based on the National
Philosophy of Education, the Integrated Curriculum for
Primary Schools Syllabus and the Curriculum
Specifications for the Integrated Curriculum for
Primary School Subjects.
• The writing of the textbook packages must fulfill the
requirements of the National Philosophy of Education
and the Objectives of Primary School Education which
should help develop the potential of the pupils in a
holistic, balanced and integrated manner.

9. Textbook Packages are:

10. THE INTEGRATED CURRICULUM FOR SECONDARY
SCHOOLS TEXTBOOK PACKAGES (KBSM)
It consist of this following components and their
COMfPuOnNEcNtTioS ns: FUNCTION
TEXTBOOK/MODULES -Translate the fundamentals required by the
Syllabus and the Curriculum Specifications .
- Provide knowledge in the form of concepts,
facts and principles.
- Facilitate and promote critical and creative
thinking skills as well as thinking skills and
thinking strategies.
SCIENCE PRACTICAL BOOK - Guide the pupils in conducting Science
practical and writing scientific report of
experiments
CD-ROM - Supplement the textbooks.
- Reinforce the pupils understanding of
specific topics learned from the textbooks.
TEACHER’S GUIDE - Assist teacher in planning and using the
textbooks affectively in teaching and learning.

11. CD-ROM MyCD
INTRODUCTION
 The production of textbook CD-ROMs is in line with the
programmatic of Teaching and Learning Science and
Mathematics in English which was entrenched by the
government in 2003.
 Publication of textbook CD-ROMs was in response to the
government’s call to increase ICT applications in the
teaching and learning processes.
 As a result, new textbooks are published together with
CD-ROMs as a packages.
 There are two types of CD-ROMs:
 The pupil’s CD-ROMs or MyCD
 Teacher’s CD-ROMs

12. THE RATIONALE FOR PRODUCING
TEXTBOOK CD-ROMs
• The producing CD-ROMs is in line with the
requirements of the Teaching and Learning of
Science and Mathematics in English.
• The government’s effort to encourage the use
of ICT starts in schools.

13. BRAILLE AND TALKING TEXTBOOK
PROGRAM
• BRAIILLE TEXTBOOK
It is a transcription of textbook from the normal text
to Braille Code System using a various combination of
six dots.
• TALKING TEXTBOOK
It is a textbook reproduced in the form of audio for
the visually impaired pupils.
It is produced based on the
standard Digital Accessible
Information System (DAISY).

14. THE RATIONALE FOR PRODUCING BRAIILE AND
OF TALKING TEXTBOOK PROGRAM
• To provide Braille Textbook to visually impaired
pupils in schools special needs integrated
throughout the country.
• To facilitate the visually impaired pupils in
accessing knowledge as their peers in the main
stream schools.
• To encourage the use of
textbook among pupils and
teachers in the special needs
education.

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