NDLI: The Malaysian Teacher Standards: a look at the challenges and implications for teacher educators

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Author	Goh, Pauline Swee Choo
Copyright Year	2011
Abstract	Talks of education transformation to improve the quality and outcomes of education in Malaysia culminated in the articulation of standards for teachers. The all new Malaysian Teacher Standards (MTS) launched in 2009 is to establish ‘high competency’ standards for the teaching profession and to increase the status of teachers in Malaysia. This article briefly describes the standards that concern teachers and teacher educators alike. It is proposed that there are three challenges to the standards system that teacher educators may face. First, on transforming ingrained beliefs, values and biased perceptions of teaching that student teachers bring to the teaching institution. The second centers on the rhetoric-reality gap of the MTS itself, while the third challenge involves the actual training of teachers. Given these three challenges, this article also outlines several avenues for teacher educators to consider as they set out to better understand and re-design teacher education programs in this standards-based era of educational transformation. The discussion of the challenges and the proposed resources to meet the challenges are by no means exhaustive or acts as a conclusion but rather to create awareness for further discussion and analysis of the implications proposed in this article.
Starting Page	73
Ending Page	87
Page Count	15
File Format	PDF
ISSN	15702081
Journal	Educational Research for Policy and Practice
Volume Number	11
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	15731723
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2011-05-21
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Malaysian Teacher Standards Teacher quality Teacher education Teaching standards Educational transformation Student teachers Education (general) Educational Policy and Politics International and Comparative Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Sociology and Political Science Education

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