Rewarding excellent educators
KUALA LUMPUR: IN the pursuit of academic excellence for the
country as envisaged by the National Key Result Areas, good leadership
from principals and school head teachers in national and
government-aided schools are pivotal to the improvement of the academic
performance of schools and holistic development of pupils.
Recognising this, the Ministry of Education's New Deals is a
performance-based incentive which rewards principals and head teachers
nationwide for elevating their school's academic performance and
ranking. It also rewards teachers and support staff for their
contributions to this achievement.
The criteria schools are evaluated on include the composite scores of
the school grade point average (GPA) based on performance in public
examinations and scores based on Standard Quality Education in Malaysia
(SQEM) as well as the leadership of principals and school heads, quality
of teaching and development programmes for pupils.
Principals and school heads from all national and government aided
schools are eligible for consideration for the New Deals incentive if
they have served at their respective schools for at least six months and
their schools have obtained public examination results for the year of
evaluation.
One of the necessary steps to help expedite the awards of the new
deals was to rank schools into seven bands according to their
composite scores of their school average score (GPA) and SQEM, said
Nadzman Radzaly, principal assistant director, Inspectorate and Quality
Assurance, Ministry of Education .
"The ranking of schools is beneficial not only to schools which are
able to see how they have performed as compared to other schools on the
list, but also present a clearer picture to parents about how their
children's schools rank nationwide," he said.
Principals and school heads who exceed the targets set and achieve a
significant jump in their school's rankings, as required by the
Education Ministry, will be subject to a verification process by the
Inspectorate of Schools. These principals and school heads have to score
above 90 per cent in the annual appraisals, improve their school's
overall grade point average and fulfil other criteria before they are
awarded the New Deals incentive.
Under this incentive, the principals and school heads receive RM7,500
while five per cent of their teaching staff will receive RM1,800. This
is also determined through the annual appraisals. The rest of the
teachers will receive RM900, while support staff will receive RM500.
Last year, 643 school heads were initially shortlisted for
verification by the Inspectorate of Schools, but after the verification
process, only 460 met all the criteria required for the incentive, said
Norhayati Alias, Deputy Chief Inspector, Inspectorate & Quality
Assurance, Ministry of Education.
A total of 17,334 teachers and support staff were awarded the New
Deals incentive in 2012, and a total of RM18.1 million was spent
rewarding school heads and their teaching and support team.
In comparison, in 2011, RM16.4 million was spent rewarding 404
principals and their teaching and support team for their excellent
performance. Some 14,596 teachers and support staff received the
monetary reward.
Meanwhile school heads who don't qualify for the incentives and wish
to improve their respective school's performance are encouraged to
attend leadership and other courses at Institute Aminuddin Baki.
New Straits Time 5 April,2013.
Che'Yahya Che' Soh
Principal SMKSB@STAR
Segambut Kuala Lumpur.
Saturday 6 April 2013.
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