Program Tingkat Pencapaian Semua Sekolah Diperkenal(berita asal)

02 Mac, 2010

Program Tingkat Pencapaian Semua Sekolah Diperkenal

PUTRAJAYA, 2 Mac (Bernama) -- Kementerian Pelajaran akan memperkenalkan Program Memperbaiki Sekolah-sekolah bagi membantu meningkatkan tahap pencapaian kesemua 10,000 sekolah di seluruh negara.

Timbalan Perdana Menteri Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, yang juga Menteri Pelajaran, berkata tumpuan program berkenaan adalah terhadap sekolah-sekolah yang tahap pencapaian mereka kurang memberangsangkan terutama di kawasan luar bandar dan pedalaman.

"Kita akan perkenalkan program ini nanti supaya tiada pihak yang membuat andaian Sekolah Berprestasi Tinggi (SBT) merupakan sekolah elit, dan Kementerian Pelajaran hanya hendak membantu 20 buah sekolah berkenaan.

"Kita ada 10,000 buah sekolah di seluruh negara, kita hendak jaga semua.

Yang penting sekolah-sekolah di tahap yang belum maju di bawah 40 peratus, pencapaian mereka dapat ditingkatkan," katanya pada perhimpunan bulanan Kementerian Pelajaran di sini Selasa.

Turut hadir dua Timbalan Menteri Pelajaran, Datuk Dr Wee Ka Siong dan Dr Mohd Puad Zarkashi.

Muhyiddin berkata Kementerian Pelajaran juga bercadang memberikan imbuhan kepada pengetua, guru besar serta guru yang berjaya meningkatkan tahap pencapaian sekolah masing-masing menerusi program berkenaan, sama seperti yang diberikan kepada pentadbir sekolah itu di bawah SBT.

"Kalau hendak memastikan sekolah itu meningkat prestasinya, yang penting, (adalah kemampuan) kepimpinan sekolah tersebut termasuk pengetua, guru besar dan guru-guru.

"Kalau sekolah berkenaan hendak mencapai tahap SBT mungkin mengambil masa lama tetapi kalau mereka dapat tingkatkan 10, 20 atau 30 peratus pencapaian, boleh dianggap berjaya.

"Pengetua, guru besar dan guru-guru seperti ini akan diberikan imbuhan dan insentif kerana mereka terbukti berjaya meningkatkan kecemerlangan sekolah masing-masing dan berhak mendapat imbuhan itu," kata Muhyiddin.

Beliau menolak andaian bahawa pemilihan 20 buah sekolah sebagai SBT sengaja diaturkan, sebaliknya, matlamat program itu ialah menjadikan SBT sebagai penanda aras kepada sekolah-sekolah lain di seluruh negara untuk mencapai tahap tertinggi.

Muhyiddin juga berkata Bahagian Seni, Sukan dan Ko-Kurikulum Kementerian Pelajaran akan dirombak, bagi membolehkan aspek sukan diletakkan berasingan daripada yang lain, dalam usaha untuk memperkasakan sukan di sekolah-sekolah.

Muhyiddin, yang juga Pengerusi Jawatankuasa Kabinet Mengenai Sukan, berkata kementerian bercadang menjadikan sukan sebagai kurikulum atau aktiviti wajib di sekolah dan bukannya ko-kurikulum seperti sebelum ini.

Untuk itu, katanya, guru terlatih dalam bidang sukan akan diperbanyakkan manakala pembangunan infrastruktur akan diberi perhatian.

"Jumlah guru terlatih dalam bidang sukan sekarang tidak mencukupi. Jadi dalam tempoh peralihan ini, kita boleh jalinkan hubungan strategik dengan Majlis Olimpik Malaysia, Majlis Sukan Negara dan persatuan-persatuan sukan (untuk melatih pelajar-pelajar ini) dan kita berikan mereka elaun," katanya.

Muhyiddin berkata beliau memberikan tumpuan terhadap bidang sukan kerana ia bukan sahaja dapat membentuk sahsiah pembentukan seseorang pelajar itu tetapi bidang berkenaan juga mempunyai prospek yang besar.

Beliau juga menggesa kakitangan Kementerian Pelajaran supaya mewujudkan satu sistem komunikasi yang lebih mantap dengan rakyat, ibu bapa dan pertubuhan-pertubuhan yang mempunyai kepentingan terhadap sistem pendidikan negara dalam usaha memantapkan lagi bidang berkenaan.

--BERNAMA

March 02, 2010

School Improvement Programme To Help Raise Performance Of Schools

PUTRAJAYA, March 2 (Bernama) -- The Education Ministry will introduce the School Improvement Programme to help raise the performance of schools nationwide.

Deputy Prime Minister and Education Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said on Tuesday the programme would focus on schools with not so inspiring performance, especially those in the rural and interior areas.

"We will introduce this programme so that no one makes the assumption that the high performance schools (HPS) are elite schools and the Education Ministry only focuses on helping the 20 such schools.

"We have 10,000 schools nationwide. We want to take care of all of them. It's important to raise the performance of schools whose achievement is less than 40 per cent," he said at the ministry's month assembly here.

Present were the two deputy education minsiters, Datuk Dr Wee Ka Siong and Dr Mohd Puad Zakarshi.

Muhyiddin said the ministry also proposed to reward school principals, head teachers and teachers who succeeded in raising the performance of their schools through this programme, just like what was given to administrators of the HPS.

"The most important component to raise the performance of a school is the school leadership, including the principal, head teacher and teachers.

"It may take a long time for a school to achieve the HPS status but if it can raise its performance by 10, 20 or 30 per cent, it is regarded a success.

"Such principals, head teachers and teachers will be given rewards and incentives because they have proven to be successful in raising the performance of their respective schools and deserve to be rewarded," he said.

Muhyiddin dismissed the assumption that the selection of the 20 HPS was orchestrated, saying that the aim of the HPS was to set a benchmark for other schools in the country to achieve the highest standard.

On another matter, Muhyiddin said the ministry's Arts, Sports and Co-curriculum division would be revamped with sports being placed separately in efforts to strengthen sports in schools.

Muhyiddin, who is also chairman of the Cabinet Committee on Sports, said the committee planned to make sports a currucilar or compulsory activity in schools instead of co-curricular as was the practice now.

To achieve this, the number of teachers trained in sports would be increased and the development of sports infrastructure would be given attention.

"There are not enough trained sports teachers now. So, in the interim, we will form strategic ties with the Olympic Council Malaysia, National Sports Council and sports associations (to train the students) and we will pay them an allowance," he said.

He said he was focusing on sports because it could not only build the character of students but also had huge prospects.

He urged the ministry staff to set up a stronger communication system with the people, parents and organisations with a stake in the nation's education system to further strengthen sports.

-- BERNAMA