Be More Creative With Home School Lessons Teachers Told

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An Orang Asli village headman says some families do not have MyTV decoders to follow education TV programmes. (Bernama pic)BIDOR: Teachers should be more creative in conducting home-based teaching and learning sessions to ensure that no student is left behind, deputy education minister Mah Hang Soon said today.
He said there is a need to find creative ways of delivering lessons because some schoolchildren, especially in rural areas, have problems in getting internet access.
He said the education ministry is aware of problems that have arisen since the home-based schooling programme (PdPR) was implemented and is looking for ways to overcome them.
“Since the reimplementation of the movement control order, various efforts have been undertaken by the ministry, schools, parent-teacher associations and communities to improve the PdPR approach,” he said on a visit to Kampung Chang Lama, Sungai Gepai, here.
As an example, he cited teachers from SMK Syeikh Abdul Ghani who would visit their Orang Asli students every week to make sure that none of them get left behind.
He also called on teachers to work together with parents to ensure smooth running of the PdPR sessions.
Kampung Chang Lama headman Dahil Yok Chopil said about 95 students in the village have problems following home-based lessons because of network constraints.
Most houses in the village do not have MyTV decoders for digital television broadcasts which would allow them to watch educational television programmes such as TV Pendidikan.
He urged the authorities to find ways to solve the issues faced by students in the village to avoid them from losing interest in learning. - FMT

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