Review for Teacher quality and training by James Kempton

In this article, the writer state that the issue of important of teacher’s quality. For him,

teachers need to have the quality in order to produce good pupils. According to a research there

are three key factors in producing good pupils. However, the most important factor for me is the

‘teachers’ quality’. It is harder to measure and in Malaysia, teachers are being measure in order

to monitor their quality.

From a study, the writer said that, an effective high quality teacher influence the pupils

learning. The difference between a good teacher and bad teacher is a whole year learning. This

shows how importance a quality teacher can do to a pupils. In Malaysia, minister has to do this

study in order to see how our teacher teach and came out with a plan so that we can improve

the bad teacher into a high quality teacher. If we can change the bad teacher into a high quality

teacher, we can produce a lot of good pupils.

Then, the writer said that to produce a quality teacher, a proper training is needed, just

like in England. This is same as in Malaysia because in Malaysia, we have our own teacher

institutes and we also have a universities who produce quality teacher every year. So, it will not

be a problem for our school to produce a good pupils. We just have to make sure that the

teacher has all the ability needed to carry out the objectives that has been set by the curriculum

in our country. With all the institutes and universities, producing a high quality teacher would not

be a problem in our country.

The next issue is there is a standard that has been introduced to make sure that only the

qualify teacher will be chosen to be given a qualified teacher status (QTS). For me, in Malaysia,

we have this kind of status also and it is being known as ‘Guru Cemerlang.’ With, this status, we

can look the teacher as an example for all the rookie teacher. By doing so, they will be able to

learn on how to become a high quality teacher. At the same time, it will bring benefit to our

education system and country. Our curriculum also can be carry out perfectly.

Last but not least is the continuous professional development that should be important

for the teacher but is being neglected by the CPD. Their government expect that teachers can

learn from their colleagues in order to become a high quality teacher. It is not very useful

because their peers cannot help them much. In Malaysia, the ministry make sure that all

teachers has the chance to improve themselves through many courses all over the year. All this

courses has help teachers in Malaysia to improve themselves and at the same time gave them

chance to become a high quality teacher in their own school.