Azlan Othman
The COVID-19 pandemic has led schools and its leaders to make change to the landscape, along with approaches to teaching and learning, said Acting Director- General of Education at the Ministry of Education (MoE) Marina Chek binti Bujang.
“The MoE must ensure that school leaders will continue to be ready to cope with 21st Century educational transformation and tackle dynamic changes towards the Fourth Industrial Revolution (IR 4.0),” she said, during the opening of the School Leaders Convention at the International Convention Centre (ICC) in Berakas yesterday.
The MoE, through its Department of Educators Management, in collaboration with the Department of Schools, is hosting the two-day dialogue session, with the participation of 191 government primary and secondary schools, as well as sixth form centre leaders, cluster heads, and department heads at the MoE.
“The School Leaders Convention will continue on February 25 and 27 next year, focussing on two components which emphasise 21st Century skills guidelines, including a blended learning framework, the fine-tuning of the learning support framework and the presentation of school incentives for public examinations such as Primary School Assessment (PSR), GCE ‘O’ and ‘A’ levels,” said Marina Chek.
“These improvements will add value to the School Leaders Convention as a platform and give opportunities to school leaders and the Ministry of Education to enhance ties and strengthen collaboration for a better understanding of the components to be proposed at the School Leaders Convention next year.”
Meanwhile, Acting Director of Educators Management at the MoE Hajah Noridah binti Abdullah said, “The dialogue platform aims to explain the crucial role of leaders in guiding educational activity at schools and at the ministry, as a follow-up of the learning support programme development that has been and will be implemented in schools; and as a preparation for school leaders in supporting the ministry’s efforts in introducing educational transformation following the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in e-learning, and to outline a blended learning framework.”
A continuation of the School Leaders Convention held in February this year, the dialogue session is themed ‘Quality Leaders, Quality Education’ and focusses on creativity and innovation as sub-themes.
The session features several presentations and workshops which discuss guidelines for the implementation of 21st Century skills, learning support programmes and blended learning.
