scholarly journals Level of Teachers' Skills in the Implementation of al-Quran Teaching Formative Assessment in Religious Schools in Brunei Darussalam

Author(s):  
Roslan Untong ◽  
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Misnan Jemali ◽  
Norwati Abu Bakar ◽  
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Formative assessment in the teaching of the Qur'an is important to build a comprehensive and continuous potential to master the reading of the Qur'an among religious school students. However, the problem that exists is the extent to which teachers' skills in implementing formative assessment of Quranic teaching in religious schools in Brunei Darussalam. The objective of this study is to examine the skills of teachers in implementing Formative Assessment of Quranic teaching in religious schools in NBD. This study uses quantitative methods using a questionnaire involving a total of 201 teachers from 37 religious schools in Brunei Darussalam. The findings of this study show that Quran teachers in religious primary schools in Brunei Darussalam have moderately high skills (mean = 3.83) in terms of teacher skills related to the concept of formative assessment. This data shows that the skills of teachers in formative assessment during Teaching and learning al-Quran in terms of giving feedback to improve student learning in al-Quran is high (mean = 3.83). While the aspect of teacher skills related to planning formative assessment activities to be applied in the process of teaching and learning al-Quran is low but still at a moderately high level (mean = 3.26). This study presents an important finding that shows the efforts that have been carried out by the Department of Islamic Studies and District Islamic Studies Officers by providing skills to religious school teachers with courses related to strong basic concepts in the formative assessment required by teachers- Quran teacher, to be able to distinguish between formative and summative practices. In conclusion, this study found that overall, the level of teachers' skills in formative assessment during the implementation of Quranic teaching is at a moderately high level.

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (42) ◽  
pp. 14-29
Author(s):  
Siti Noor Ismail ◽  
Wan Rosni Wan Yakob ◽  
Noraida Mustapai ◽  
Tuan Roslina Tuan Mat

The Professional Learning Community (PLC) practice is a strategy to encourage collaboration among teachers in schools to create more quality of teaching and student achievement can be improved. However, the practice of PLC is still not fully implemented because there are still school leaders who are incompetent in management and also teachers do not understand the practice of PLC in more depth. Therefore, this study aims to identify the level of PLC practice and the level of teacher motivation in five secondary schools, Jeli District. Quantitative methods are used where the questionnaire is as a research instrument. A total of 171 teachers in the schools participated by answering the questionnaires that were distributed. The research instrument to measure PLC practice was adapted from the Professional Learning Community Assessment-Revised (PLCA-R) while the Assessment of Teacher Motivation Questionnaire (ATMQ) was used to measure the level of teacher motivation. Data were analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 26.0. The results of the study found that the practice of PLC and teacher motivation is implemented at a high level. The implications of this study showed that the practice of KPP is very important to be implemented in schools to increase teacher motivation which in turn can further improve the quality of teaching and learning towards student excellence.


2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (8) ◽  
pp. 196-210
Author(s):  
Zainah Asmawi ◽  
Wan Muna Ruzanna Wan Mohammad

The concept of professionalism is closely related to individual job scope in any field of work. Teacher professionalism demands a value to carry out teacher’s responsibilities with full commitment and dedication. As the quality of education is related to the value of teacher professionalism that will determine the effectiveness of teaching and learning. Standard Guru Malaysia (2009) has placed the value of professionalism as the main standard. Therefore, this research is conducted to review teacher’s professionalism among primary schools’ Malay Language teachers of Klang, Selangor in the term of value. The objective of this study is to identify the level of teachers’ professional practice English in terms of value and identify the level of self-assessment of teachers' professional practice in primary schools’ Malay Language teachers. Quantitative Research was used in this study involving 219 teachers. The questionnaire with five Likert scales has been used for the purpose of data collection. The items used are guided by Standard 1: Values of Professionalism in the Malaysian Teacher Standard. Descriptive statistics were used to know the mean, standard deviation, frequency, and percentage to obtain accurate findings in the process of analysis the items of study. Data obtained are analysed using Software Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 25. The result of the analysis shows that the professionalism practice of Malay Language teachers in terms of values at the high level of 4.46. The finding describes the teachers know and practice the value of professionalism well but the value practice among teachers needs to be constantly enhanced because teachers are the transformation agent in the education system. The level of self-assessment among Malay Language teachers is at the high level of 3.68 means. In self-assessment section found that there are a few items that need to be emphasized in future studies because the feedback from this study illustrated that there are some disadvantages inherent in professionalism. And this affects the quality of professionals as Malay Language teachers. In conclusion, the teacher's efforts to complete the responsibilities towards the student, school, and community requires a strong value to produce professional attitudes teachers.


2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1-5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohd Nazri Hassan ◽  
Ramlee Mustapha ◽  
Nik Azimah Nik Yusuff ◽  
Rosnidar Mansor

Teaching Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) has its own challenges and need to be emphasized in the curriculum as it is one of the skills of the 21st century. HOTS is among six main characteristics of students who aspire Ministry of Education to succeed globally. However, studies on the effectiveness of the module KBAT in science subjects still not carried out. Hence, the purpose of this study was to develop and evaluate the effectiveness of teaching modules based on higher order thinking skills in science subjects in primary schools. The first phase of this study is to identify the needs of teachers of science on higher-order thinking skills module. The needs analysis also aims to determine the need and willingness of teachers to KBAT module in the teaching of science in primary schools. The initial analysis is carried out based on the protocol requirements interview involving 6 teachers teaching science subjects in six primary schools. The results showed that the willingness of teachers in the implementation and knowledge is minimal. Teachers are also not mastered the skills to integrate elements of higher order thinking skills in science teaching. Students facing dificulties to understand the questions as well as the teachers to develop high-level questions are identified problems faced by teachers. The interview data also shows teachers need simple guidance material or HOTS module to use for teaching and learning in the classroom.


2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 3789-3794
Author(s):  
Phrakrusoponpattaravet (Ittipol Padhãniko) Et al.

The purpose of this research was to propose a model of activity development to promote students’ morality in primary schools under the Office of Primary Education Service Areas. Mixed methods research was used for the research design. The target group were 17 key informants and 24 school administrators whereas 400 school teachers were used for data collection. Content analysis was used for qualitative analysis, and quantitative data were analyzed by using percentage statistics, frequency, mean, and standard deviation. Results showed that students’ morality was developed through 5 aspects consisted of 1) Sufficiency, 2) Gratitude, 3) Integrity, 4) Responsibility, and 5) Moral ideology, and analyzed results were shown at a high level in all aspects. A model of activity development to promote students’ morality in primary schools composed of 1) Curriculum, 2) Learning objectives, 3) Teaching plan preparation, 4) Teaching and learning activities, and 5) Assessment. The developed model focused on 4 important aspects which were 1) Ethic, promote 5 virtues for students, which are sufficiency, gratitude, integrity, accountability, and moral ideology by using the model to develop activities to promote morality of students. 2) Activity Development, it was focused on teaching and learning activities, including curriculum, learning objectives, teaching plans, teaching and learning activities, and assessment. 3) Support, support the development of activities to promote morality of students under cooperation between administrators, teachers, school board members, monks, parents, and communities. 4) Students, students will receive the most from the activity development promote the morality.


Author(s):  
Louis Jinot Belle ◽  
Kasmira Seerauj

This study focuses on the implementation of ICT as a teaching tool for language and literacy in primary schools in Mauritius. It examines perceptions of primary school teachers of Grades 5 and 6 classes about the benefits, drawbacks and challenges of using ICT tools to enhance the teaching and learning of languages and literacy. The survey research design based on the quantitative research method was used to collect data from 100 primary schools in the district of Moka. The random sampling technique was used. The study indicates that teachers have an average level of perceptions of the drawbacks and challenges that they face in implementing ICT tools in their teaching, but they have a quite high level of perceptions of the benefits of using such tools. The most important finding is that they consider it difficult to use ICT tools in overcrowded classes that are common in Mauritian primary schools and that they are not well trained to use ICT tools to teach effectively and efficiently. It is recommended that, in the context of the new education reform called the Nine Year Basic Continuous Education, the Ministry of Education should review the teacher-pupil ratio and employ teaching assistants or support teachers to facilitate the effective use and implementation of ICT tools to accelerate its strategy towards the digitalization of education in the country.


2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdul Wahhab

In contemporary Indonesia, one of the biggest phenomenon is the muslim scholars moral decadence that caused by a religious knowledge deficiency. The things that muslim educationalists can do are devising a new innovation in teaching and learning of Islamic studies and introducing a new idea to decline the number of moral decadence in muslim scholars. Therefore, the researcher come up with an idea related to the problem-solving of declining the number of moral decadence – Campus Madrasah Diniyah (CMD). Madrasah Diniyyah is the religious school which study about the Islamic studies. It becomes the new innovation of Madrasah Diniyyah in this contemporary country which provide the Islamic studies for the scholars. Then the library research and the descriptive qualitative methods are used by the researcher to analyze the phenomenon inside the moral decadence of Indonesian Muslim scholars. Also, to get the data analysis, the researcher analyze the previous researches and some books which related to the phenomenon.


2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (38) ◽  
pp. 80-92
Author(s):  
W Azizi Abdul Rahman ◽  
Norhisham Mohamad

This paper is to identify the implementation of hadith teaching and learning in secondary Islamic Education in Perak. This form of research uses quantitative methods. A total of 269 Islamic education teachers in daily secondary schools in Perak were selected as respondents using random sampling techniques. The study data were descriptively analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) to obtain frequency, percentage, mean standard deviation. The findings on the time allocation construct were at moderately high levels (mean=3.51, s.p =0.3). Meanwhile, the findings of the teaching aid Material Construct mean score of the entire item are (mean=3.75, s.p=0.15) and the teachers’ interpretation is moderately high and the construct for teacher's teaching method “kitabah” the whole item's mean score is (mean=4.65, s.p=0.23) and interpretation at a high level. In conclusion, the main findings of the study show that teachers can implement good teaching methods to influence students' achievement. Despite the provision of teaching time and ease of teaching aids needs to be improved. The implications of the study show that the parties should increase their teaching time and expose the use of teaching materials to teachers so that students can master and improve sunnah practices in everyday life as derived from hadith learning in schools.


2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Poppy Anggraeni ◽  
Aulia Akbar

Lesson plan is one of important role in the teaching and learning process in Primary Schools. It contains plans for activities or activities that will be carried out during learning. This research aims is to describe the suitability of lesson plan and the learning process in elementary school. The research method used is a survey method, involving a sample of 12 public and private elementary schools in the city of Sumedang. Data collection techniques using observation, documentation and questionnaire techniques, the data that has been obtained is then analyzed using simple statistical techniques. The results showed that the suitability of lesson plan and the learning process had a percentage of 68.0% and were in the high category. This shows that all activities listed in the lesson plan start from the initial activities (79.8%), main activities (63.8%) and closing activities (68.86%) are in accordance with the activities carried out in the learning process. Thus it can be concluded that the lesson plan that has been prepared by the teacher and the learning process that has been carried out in the Sumedang City Primary School has a high level of suitability. However, even though it has a high category, but not fully in accordance with the lesson plan used, so there is still a need for further guidance and development for teachers so that they are always guided by the lesson plan so that learning becomes more directed and in accordance with the prepared plan. 


2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
pp. 01-08
Author(s):  
Mazarul Hasan Mohamad Hanapi ◽  
Norazimah Zakaria ◽  
Kama Shaffeei

In this 21st century, the teaching and learning process has mostly been using various information and also communication technologies. This research aims to identify challenges in the implementation of the 21st century’s teaching and learning, and also suggestions to improve the teachers’ teaching and learning practices in the 21st century primary schools, based on the Emergent Curriculum Theory. Due to the dynamic nature of the Malaysian curriculum, which is driven by the changes in the environment and technological advancements, therefore this theory is the most suitable to be used because it is always open to many new possibilities. Enhancements in the teaching and learning practices by teachers need to be done so that all the shortcomings and constraints can be addressed immediately to achieve the goals outlined by the Ministry of Education (MOE). According to Wan Abdul Halim, Nor Laila, and Shafie (2006), ideal and excellent teachers are those who possess a high level of knowledge, experts in multiple fields, and efficient in carrying out their responsibilities as educators. A teaching and learning process will be effective if the teacher possesses skills and knowledge about the subject being taught and also an understanding of the aspects of student learning.


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