Pn Long Kwai Ling using high order questioning techniques to help students to think critically and to draw inferences from the guided result table.
Pn Lee Bee Swan guiding the students to explore and gather information/data from the activity/experiment.
Fun, meaningful and collaborative learning
Cik Lee See Mee enquiring about the students’ results and using question techniques to encourage students to think critically.
Learning was active, fun and effective. Students interest in the learning objective is arroused
Biology specialist and knowledgeable others
I am inspired and energized by Lesson study. Lesson study helps in professional development. In lesson study, teachers collaborate, share our knowledge, co-plan, observe, critique the lesson, discuss professionally and redesign lesson plans to make their goals for student learning effective and fun. It significantly helps to improve teaching and learning in the classroom. In fact, lesson study makes me think, restructure and reorganize my thoughts about classroom practices. It ensures that classroom practices are improved collaboratively so that learning is fun and effective.
Currently, the National Standardized Public exams are going to be kept at a minimum to discourage exam centric learning and tuition culture. Lesson study in schools will help to turn the Malaysian education culture to a system that is more innovative and creative. There will be less questions testing simple factual recall, which promotes rote learning of superficial knowledge. Instead, questions that require justification of answers or problem solving to foster higher order thinking skills will be implemented. Students will be given more projects where they are graded for original thought, collaborative work and presentation skills. These are the abilities needed in the K-economy where wealth is generated by creating new knowledge, not regurgitating old knowledge. With this change in educational culture, Malaysian will be able to compete in an innovation-led economy as they will be well prepared to think out of the box and be actively encouraged to gather knowledge.
“Quote: “If Malaysia is to compete in an innovation-led economy, our education system will
have to be drastically changed as we need to think out of the box.”
The Star, Sunday 29th April 2012
Assoc Prof DR William K. Lim
Faculty of medicine and Health Sciences,
University Malaysia Sarawak, Kuching