The National Union of Teaching Profession (NUTP) secretary-general Harry Tan has urged the Education Ministry to roll out a Social Distancing Pedagogical Training module
KUALA LUMPUR: The National Union
of Teaching Profession (NUTP) has urged the Education Ministry to roll out a
Social Distancing Pedagogical Training module in schools once the Movement
Control Order (MCO) is lifted.
Its secretary-general Harry Tan
said such a training should be done due to possible difficulties or
uncertainties that teachers would experience while executing their duties in
the “new normal” situation.
Teachers wanted to know how they
would conduct group activities or convey human to human interaction after the
MCO, he added.
“Teachers also want to know how
to conduct student counselling sessions and classroom learning as well as
teaching when students and teachers are using face masks,” he said in a statement
on Saturday.
Tan said the teaching and
learning strategy would depend on a concept of teachers as facilitators and
students as active participants.
He said there were plenty of
research on distance learning but there was barely anything on social
distancing in classrooms.
“In this respect, NUTP urges the
ministry to focus on the matters raised. We are of the opinion the Education
Ministry should provide necessary training to teachers after the MCO ends and
before the students return to schools,” he added.
He said Malaysian teachers would
need effective guidance from the Education Ministry to carry out social
distancing in schools.
“We are facing an unseen enemy
(Covid-19). In the era of post MCO, social distancing will be the new normal in
our daily lives.”
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