JAPTIM 2016-2017 Work Plan Seminar
THE BRUNEI TIMES
Secondary schools commended
for exams
Thursday,
October 22, 2015
By Amanda
Yap
Acting
Director of Schools Zaman Hj Gapar (L)
presents a certificate to one of the
school principals
during the JAPTIM 2016-2017 Work Plan Seminar
at the
Sengkurong Sixth Form Centre.
BANDAR
SERI BEGAWAN
TWENTY-FIVE government
secondary schools were yesterday awarded certificates of appreciation for their
results in the 2014 Brunei-Cambridge GCE O and A Level exams.
Seven
government secondary schools classified as Category One “Performing Schools”
were honoured for achieving public exam results that were above the national
target.
The
schools were Duli Pengiran Muda Al-Muhtadee Billah College (Maktab Duli),
Paduka Seri Begawan Sultan Science College (Maktab Sains), Pengiran Jaya Negara
Hj Abu Bakar Secondary School, Pengiran Anak Puteri Hjh Masna Secondary School,
Sufri Bolkiah Secondary School, Sekolah Tinggi Perempuan Raja Isteri (STPRI)
and Sayyidina Hasan Secondary School.
Ten
Category Two “Progressing Schools” also received recognition for achieving
better results of five per cent and above in 2014 compared with 2013.
An
additional eight government secondary schools also received certificates for
improved results last year compared with 2013 and were deemed Category Three
“Promising Schools”.Acting Director of Schools Zaman
Hj Gapar presented certificates of appreciation to the schools’ principals
during a work plan seminar for school leaders at the Sengkurong Sixth Form
Centre.
According
to the Ministry of Education (MoE), the schools were selected based on a number
of criteria that were jointly determined by both the Department of Schools and
the Committee of Principals and Deputy Principals from Government Secondary
Schools (JAPTIM). A total of 6,844 students sat for the GCE O level exams last
November while 2,797 sat for the GCE A level exams. The sultanate has 35
government secondary schools.
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Seminar focuses on exam
results
Thursday,
October 22, 2015
Amanda
Yap
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| Some of the school leaders attending the JAPTIM 2016-2017 Work Plan Seminar listen to a speaker. |
BANDAR
SERI BEGAWAN
MORE than
100 school leaders yesterday convened for the first day of the Principals and
Deputy Principals from Government Secondary Schools Committee (JAPTIM) work
plan seminar aimed at improving Brunei-Cambridge GCE O and A Level exam results
in the country.
The
two-day seminar at the Sengkurong Sixth Form Centre is part of a work plan that
aims to see government school students achieving a 60 per cent rate in getting
five O levels and above and a 70 per cent rate in getting three A levels and
above in 2017.
JAPTIM
Chairman and Rimba Secondary School Principal Hj Malai Shah Eran Syed Hj Yussof
said the seminar aimed to provide a clear direction for all school leaders on
the Ministry of Education’s aims and target for 2017 and onwards.
Participants
will also be able to review and re-emphasise their roles to improve the
performance of their schools by centering on the designated five focus areas as
well as use the seminar as an avenue to work collaboratively in developing
effective strategies and programmes towards achieving the O and A-Level
targets.
Following
the seminar, every school leader is expected to submit a sound work plan for
effective implementation to their respective schools which will enable the
alignment of the schools’ programmes and strategies with the MoE’s programmes
and initiatives, he said.
Hj Malai
added that a book called ‘Success Stories Revealed’ will also be given to all
school leaders at the end of the seminar which contains reports from performing
schools in 2014 for their reference.
“School
leaders are the agents of change. They (bring) changes to their respective
schools with purpose; that is to improve the performance of the school to the
desired target,” he said.
“(This
seminar) is all about the students – the bar is raised to a level recognised by
the MoE, and we are here to close the gaps to achieve better.
“Thus, we
school leaders are responding to the MoE’s priority on putting ‘students’
matters above all’ and the slogan ‘Raising the Bar and Closing the Gap’,” Hj
Malai said.
MoE
Acting Director of Schools Zaman Hj Gapar urged school leaders to always think
of research and improve strategies for internal evaluation at their schools by
implementing adjustments to improve the quality and standard of internal
evaluations.
He also
urged them to carry out “work-reviews” and “target setting” from time to time
to continuously improve their quality of performance and to strengthen skills
and knowledge in observation and feedback processes to improve teachers’
performances.
He also
reminded school leaders to enhance parental involvement in students’ learning
through Parent-Teacher Association activities as well as systematic and
purposeful meetings.
As part
of the seminar, two keynote addresses were delivered by Universiti Brunei
Darussalam (UBD) Director of Institute of Leadership, Innovation and
Advancement (ILIA) Dr Shamsiah Zuraini Kanchanawati Hj Tajuddin and UBD Dean of
Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah Institute of Education (SHBIE) Dr Jainatul Halida Hj
Jaidin.
The MoE
Director of the Inspectorate Department Tan Lian Lian also conducted a sharing
session before additional sharing sessions on effective leadership practices and
strategies among the seminar participants took place.
The
Brunei Times
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Tingkat keputusan menjelang
2017
Pelita Brunei
Oct 22,
2015
Oleh
Abdul Rahim Haji Ismail
BANDAR
SERI BEGAWAN, 21 Okt – Pengetua, timbalan pengetua serta ketua kluster sekolah
menengah kerajaan disyorkan supaya sentiasa berusaha memahami dan menjiwai
kelima-lima bidang fokus yang digariskan Kementerian Pendidikan.
Bagi
mencapai matlamat tersebut, kepimpinan, pengajaran dan pembelajaran, kehadiran
dan faktor sosial, akauntabiliti dan pengurusan, selain prestasi serta pemboleh
berjalin (Cross Cutting Enablers) merupakan elemen yang amat penting dalam
memberikan panduan kepada semua pemimpin sekolah untuk mencapai sasaran
Kementerian Pendidikan.
Faktor-faktor
ini merupakan sasaran bagi peringkat sekolah rendah dan menengah yang
ditetapkan kementerian tersebut dalam usaha merealisasikan hasrat Wawasan 2035
iaitu sekurang-kurangnya 90 peratus murid mencapai gred A hingga C, 60 peratus
pelajar mencapai sekurang-kurangnya 5 ‘O’ Level menjelang 2017.
Saranan
itu dibuat oleh Pemangku Pengarah Sekolah-sekolah, Kementerian Pendidikan,
Awang Zaman bin Haji Gapar pada majlis perasmian Seminar Pelan Kerja 2016-2017
yang diadakan di Pusat Tingkatan Enam Sengkurong, hari ini.
Tetamu kehormat (tengah) bersama
Haji Malai Shah Eran.
Awang Zaman menyampaikan anugerah kepada pengetua
sekolah yang berjaya.
Dr. Shamsiah Zuraini Kanchanawati
menyampaikan ucaptama seminar.
Lebih 70 orang
pengetua, timbalan pengetua dan ketua kluster dari lebih 30 sekolah menengah
kerajaan seluruh negara menghadiri seminar dua hari yang dianjurkan bersama
oleh ahli Jawatankuasa Eksekutif Jawatankuasa Pengetua-pengetua dan Timbalan
Pengetua Sekolah Menengah dan Maktab Kerajaan Negara Brunei Darussalam (JAPTIM)
dan Jabatan Sekolah-sekolah, Kementerian Pendidikan.
Hadir
sama ialah Pengerusi Jawatankuasa Eksekutif JAPTIM 2015-2017, Haji Malai Shah
Eran bin Syed Haji Yussof, Pengarah Institut Kepimpinan, Inovasi dan Kemajuan
(ILIA), Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Dr. Shamsiah Zuraini Kanchanawati binti
Haji Tajuddin, Pengarah Jabatan Kenaziran, Pegawai Tugas-tugas Khas Kanan
(Korporat) dan Pemangku Pegawai Tugas-tugas Khas Kanan (Profesional).
Seterusnya,
beliau menyarankan para pentadbir yang hadir memikirkan, meneliti dan
memperbaiki strategi-strategi penilaian dalaman sekolah dengan melaksanakan
penyelarasan bagi meningkatkan standard dan kualiti penilaian dalaman.
Awang
Zaman mencadangkan supaya dilaksanakan penyemakan tugas dan menentukan sasaran
pencapaian dari satu penilaian ke penilaian seterusnya.
Beliau
mahu pemimpin sekolah memperkukuhkan lagi kemahiran dan pengetahuan dalam
pencerapan serta maklum balas yang dapat meningkatkan prestasi pengajaran guru
dengan mengadakan sesi penerapan yang sistematik.
Akhir
sekali, beliau turut menyarankan supaya pihak sekolah dapat mempertingkatkan
lagi pembabitan para ibu bapa dalam pembelajaran pelajar melalui aktiviti
Persatuan Ibu Bapa dan Guru-guru (PIBG) serta sesi perjumpaan yang sistematik
dan terarah.
Ujarnya,
matlamat Jabatan Sekolah-sekolah dalam memastikan kejayaan para pelajar adalah
sejajar dengan slogan Kementerian Pendidikan, iaitu ‘Raising The Bar And
Closing The Gap’, harus dijunjung dan dijadikan inspirasi oleh semua pemimpin
sekolah.
Sehubungan
itu, katanya seminar tersebut dirangka untuk memberikan hala tuju yang jelas
kepada semua pemimpin sekolah supaya dapat bekerja secara kolaboratif agar
mencapai kejayaan dalam peperiksaan GCE ‘O’ Level .
Para
peserta Seminar Pelan Kerja itu juga diharap dapat mengenal pasti amalan-amalan
pendidikan dan strategi yang berkesan dalam penghasilan satu pelan kerja yang
berkesan, sekali gus mampu merealisasikan usaha untuk mencapai sasaran 60
Peratus 5 ‘O’ Level dan 70 Peratus 3 ‘A’ Level menjelang 2017.
Majlis
turut diselajurkan dengan upacara penyampaian tiga kategori anugerah, iaitu
Anugerah Sekolah Cemerlang kepada sekolah yang berjaya mengekalkan prestasi
keputusan peperiksaan di kumpulan lima sekolah terbaik buat beberapa tahun dan
mengekalkan tahap pencapaian di atas sasaran kebangsaan.
Seterusnya,
ialah penyampaian Anugerah Sekolah Berkemajuan kepada sekolah yang telah
mencatatkan peningkatan lima peratus atau lebih dalam keputusan peperiksaan
berbanding pencapaian terdahulu pada 2013.
Manakala
kategori ketiga ialah penyampaian Anugerah Sekolah Harapan kepada
sekolah-sekolah yang telah berjaya memperbaiki keputusan peperiksaan yang
mereka raih pada 2013.
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