Teachers Education and Life Long

Learning: SHBIE Transition and

Experience

Presentation Overview

• Where we were?• Historical Background

• Case for Change

• Where we are going?• Vision

• Mission

• How are we going to get there?• Redesigning of Programmes

• Initial Teacher Preparation Programme Structure• Professional Practice and Seminars

• University Based Modules

• Evidence Based Best Practices

1956: Brunei Teachers Training Centre (Pusat Latihan Perguruan Brunei)

1959: Brunei Malay Teachers College (Maktab Perguruan Melayu Brunei)

1984: Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah Institute of Education (Institut Pendidikan Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah)

1988: SHBIE as a Faculty in Universiti Brunei Darussalam

2009: SHBIE upgraded to a Graduate School status in Universiti Brunei Darussalam

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

Centre

CollegeInstitute

Faculty

GRADUATE SCHOOL

Brunei vision 2035

Imperative

Current Context

Quality of Life

Diversify Economy

Highly Educated and Skilled People

Brunei vision 2035

Imperative

Current Context

• SPN21 (21st Century Education System)

• Development of 21st

Century Skills

Brunei vision 2035

Imperative

Current Context

Quality Teacher Education: A Future

Orientation

Restructuring Institution

Redesigning Programmes

Redefining Teacher Quality

‘The experience of the (most successful) school systems suggest three things matter most: getting the right people to become teachers; developing them into

effective instructors; ensuring that the system is able to deliver the best possible instruction for every child’

(McKinsey Report, 2007. ‘How the best performing school systems come out on top’)

SHBIE Vision

Our mission is excellence in academic, research and professional development through: leading the region

in provision of quality programmes at graduate level; strengthening collaborations with strategic

partners; developing professionals who are intellectual, spiritual, grounded in the traditions of Brunei and conversant with innovations of modern

society.

“A Leading Institute of Excellence in Teacher Education and Research

49 Faculty Members

361 Students

o Masters of Teaching

o Masters of Education

o Masters of Counseling

o PhD in Education

3 Research Thrusts

• Initial Teacher Preparation

• Curriculum, Assessment and Pedagogy

• Asian Values in Education

SHBIE• Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah

Institute of Education[Graduate School]

• IOE, University of London

• University of Melbourne, Australia

• Teachers College, Columbia University, USA

• Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia

• National Institute of Education, NTU, Singapore

School Partnership

Initial Teacher Preparation

Continuing Professional

Development

Graduate Professional

Development

Specialization:

• Early Childhood Education and Care

• Primary Education

• Secondary Education

• Vocational and Technical Education

• Higher Education

Learning Areas

•Arabic Language Education

•Curriculum, Pedagogy & Assessment

•Early Childhood Education

•Educational Technology Education

•Mathematics Education

•Physical Education & Sports Studies

• Science Education

• Special Education

• Islamic Education

• Inclusive Education

• Leadership and School Improvement

• Language & Literacy Education (Malay/English)

•Visual Arts & Design Education

•MIB Education (Malay Islamic Monarchy)

•Psychology

Masters of Teaching

INITIAL TEACHER PREPARATION

School-based Professional

Practice

Pedagogic Content Knowledge

Core Values

Global Evidence-Based Best Practices

University-Based Modules

Master of Teaching: Secondary Education (60 MC)

Semester 1 = 24 MC Semester 2 = 20 MC Semester 3 = 16 MC

Framework for Learning and the Design of Instruction (4)

Assessment for Learning (4)

Professional Practice and Seminar (8)

Specialisation Option- Learning Area 1 (4)

Education Research Methodology (4)

Technology, Pedagogy and Content Knowledge (4)

Professional Practice and Seminar (8)

Specialisation Option-Learning Area 2 (4)

Language and Teaching (4)

Teacher as Researcher (4)

Research Exercise (12)

Professional Practice

Placement

Professional Practice

Seminars

o Professional Engagement

o Professional Knowledge and Skillso Engage students in active, intellectually

challenging learning activities

o Develop learning activities

o Analyse and use information about students in the design of leaning situation

o Asses and report on student learning

Masters of Teaching[School-BasedProfessional

Practices]

• 4 Days a week

• Under supervision of School mentor,

• Assigned to Subject or/and Clinical Specialist

• Required to produce professional documentation (Practice Portfolio)

Excerpt from Reflective Essay of MTeach student:

I started the lesson by asking the students to guess what the topic was about. Icarefully planned the questioning and the timing, so I was extremely happy to seehow everything fell into place. My lesson went beyond what was planned and I wasglad of the results. I hadn’t expected one of the students to provide the words ‘wake’and ‘brush’ which was exactly in my cue in teaching past tense verbs. And I was quitepleased that my students guessed correctly that the topic of that day’s lesson was thePAST TENSE.

I felt validated at that point and even more confident. I loved that feeling as it gaveme a sense of purposes-and fulfillment-that things were going according to plan.

However, I wished the questioning sounded more natural-leaning more towardsinstructional conversation…..

S. Sithamparam (2014) ‘Developing professional practice through the use of standards’, Initial Teacher Education inPractical Knowledge in Education, Routledge.

SHBIE Graduate Students Research Interests:

R1

R2R3

R4

R5Curriculum Studies• Creative block: Fear of making

mistakes in artwork among secondary art students

• Enhancing students understanding of opportunity costs in Arabic Secondary Economic Education

Numeracy & Literacy StudiesFocus on Numeracy and Literacy issues among learners:• Use of figurative language in songs

lyrics for narrative writing • Yr4 students misconceptions and

errors on number patterns

Pedagogical Studies:• Teaching and learning animal

classification in YR3 through Drama

• Inquiry-Based learning in YR 5 Science

Lesson Study • Lesson study approach to

improve YR9 Chemsitry students understanding of Ionic Bonding

Design and Technology• Designing technology integrated lessons using

TPACK Framework • Animation in the learning of diffusion and osmosis

• 21st Century Teaching and Learning (21 CTL) in collaboration with SRI International, USA

• Community Engagement in Education: Early Childhood Education, Special Education and Counselling

• SABER (Systems Approach for Better Education Results) Benchmarking, World Bank

• ASEANness Citizenship with Oita University, Japan

• 1:1 Computing in Model Schools

• Curriculum Development with Virtual University for the Small States of Commonwealth (VUSSC)

Major Institutional Research Projects

Some of the Changes and Challenges:

• Larger % of students professional development happen in PPS i.e. schools,

• Reconceptualization of role of placement and school mentors

• Increase demands on faculty time,

• Enhance collaboration between SHBIE and Ministry of Education and Schools

• Quality of Mentorship

• Graduate Research Scholarship/University Bursary Award• Application for PhD programme

• Brunei Darussalam Scholarship • Application for Master and PhD programmes

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Scholarship forInternational Students

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