Project To Help Low-Performing Schools
By Zasika Musdi

Bandar Seri Begawan - The Department of Schools Inspectorate is in session for the `Helping Low-Performing Schools' project.

Terry Bates and Mary Sinclair, consultants from Cognition Consulting Limited New Zealand, will be guiding and advising the participants to achieve improvement in accordance with the Department strategic Plan 2007-2011.

Officers from the Inspectorate and from the Primary Section, Department of Schools, and principals are attending the five-day programme.

They will be provided with the expertise and knowledge on the achievement of schools and its students; guidance services to schools and clients on planning and suggestions; analysing data; and guiding school administrators in defining, executing, reporting, reviewing and appraising the School Development Plan.

The project expects to get an improvement in skills and determining content for needs analysis and data interpretation; have enough knowledge and skills to get to the root of the problem of low-performing schools; come up with a workable plan for schools that are part of the case study; come up with a framework model template to tackle problems; fortify the capacity of course participants and aid in efforts to improve the schools concerned.

Today, participants will be visiting two schools in Kampung Ayer-Sekolah Rendah PAP Besar and Sekolah Rendah Saba Darat-as part of their case study.

The Department of Schools Inspectorate is committed to providing high quality assessment services It is responsible for assessing and reporting the quality of education prepared by educational institutions.

The five-day project will end on Feb 29 and is being held at the Civil Services Institute in Rimba. -- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin

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