The Education Ministry will soon employ graduates with CGPA of 2.75 and above as teachers. Additionally, those who have active involvement in the extra-curricular activities in colleges and universities will be given preference during the selection process for teachers.
The measure is taken as an additional effort to produce quality teaching professionals who are competent enough to carry out their duties and in return produce quality students. In the past, teachers have also been enrolled for a number of training programs to improve their competency and effectiveness in job.
Such training programs include Teacher’s in-Service Training (Latihan Dalam Perkhidmatan), foreign studies program (e.g. Mandarin and French) and a special program to nurture the so-called excellent teachers and school principals (guru dan pengetua cemerlang). To date, close to 500,000 teachers have been enrolled into various programs. Some have also been sent to Beijing Foreign Studies University to learn Mandarin and University Franche-Comte for French.
Further steps have been taken to improve the level of English competency among teachers in Malaysia. Activities such as story telling, public speaking, English camp, drama and others have been organized to achieve the objective.
At the moment, aspiring graduates who are interested to join the teaching force can do so via the following:
SPM leavers: Kursus Perguruan Lepasan SPM (KPLSPM)
Interested SPM leavers can apply for KPLSPM online, where they will undergo a 4-year training course. At the end of the 4-year tenure, students who graduated will receive a Degree of Education, majoring in a field they have chosen during enrolment.
Degree holders: Kursus Perguruan Lepasan Ijazah (KPLI)
KPLI is a more popular path for landing teacher’s job, where graduates can also send their application online.
Application forms can be found online in the Education Ministry website here.
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KPLI is definetly not a good idea. Just because there are many unemployed graduates, that doesnt mean that they can take “short-cuts ” in order to be employed. Furthermore, the teaching profession requires interest, commitment, proper training, exposure, knowledge in the field itself and much more. I myself have enrolled for the teacher’s training course and it took me 6 years to complete. I just dont understand, how can the KPLI students learn the same course in only 1 year? and how much can they learn in 1 years time? And how many parents out there are willing to send their children to this group of KPLI teachers? Teaching is a noble profession and it is not for thoso unemployed graduates who happens to have no choice but to teach.
Well…it all depend on how you see it.
All KPLi spent 4 years in their universities life. Although their major might / might not suit the education sector but some of them do have the will to teach. Furthermore, graduates from overseas are more creative when comes to presenting ideas. KPLi have advantages due to their working experiences, they way they see and communicate with people.
KPLSPM also spent 4 years in maktab. They are all well-train to be teachers but might lack of working experience. Furthermore, if facing certain social problems, some KPLSPM (what I see) just freeze and don’t know how to handle things.
its your opinion prem. go and take kpli. you will knoe what kpli’s do. its their decision to take the degree 1st. some kpli’s has a good result on their exam. =p
I agree with Prem. KPLI is taken for granted. Teaching needs passion. I don’t think we can find passionate people in the bunch of graduates who thought of it as their last resorts.
agree
well, it depends on the individuals as well… what if a fresh engineering graduate from California State University humbly applied for this program and willing to contribute and give back to community by educating the kids not only out-of-textbook way and reach out by teaching them new method such as applied science or educating the students in good command of english, not all graduates from foreign colleges are stingy… do this graduate have to study another extra 6 years to pass the program… well sometimes we cannot see thing in whole collective p.o.v…
The most important characteristics are sikap/attitude
minat/aptitude, sabar/patient, dan ghairah/passion akan
pekerjaan mendidik, mengajar, menyayangi dan suka
kepada P&P dan kepada pelajar2 serta mestilah patuh
kepada profesion perguruan itu!
it is obvious that teachers are not a professional jobs now. it has been downgraded that graduates with cgpa as low as 2.75 are allowed to apply for the teaching courses. as a future teacher who has been in the teacher training college and then university for the past 5 years, i propose that government should expect better graduates to apply for the course as teaching is not easy and it involves the future of the next generation.
i agree with ‘future teacher’. Even as a graduate myself, not from education degree but i do have interest in teaching. I obtained cgpa above 3.75 in a local university here. I believe those who should be allowed to enroll in teaching course must at least obtain the cgpa of 3.00, so as not to tarnish the teaching profession and at the same time ensure the quality of teachers-to-be.
Government should change the process of selection by looking at candidate softskills not their CGPA.The selection must be made base on the candidate skills and experiences not base on how well they can memorize facts from their textbooks. Picking candidates base on CGPA is so 1992.