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A Personal Review Of KSSR and KBSR
As a teacher i must adopt with the new curricular system in
Malaysia. To
prepare daily lesson plan is becoming dramatic for me because of
the transition
from Kurikulum Bersepadu Sekolah Rendah (KBSR) to Kurikulum
Standard Sekolah
Rendah (KSSR) for primary schools. All i need to do is to
actually understand the
concept and objectives of KSSR so that I would be able to teach
the students
accordingly.
First of all, what is changes between KBSR and KSSR other than
the
different acronyms? KBSR being important for many trials that
the NationalEducation Board wanted to perform on Malaysian
students. KBSR established such
as Reading, Writing and Calculation. In English Language
Teaching (ELT)
classrooms where the language skills such as Speaking, Writing,
Listening and
Reading are emphasized at a very basic level. Malay Language
used as the medium
of instruction for all the subjects except English Language
subject. KBSR focuses on
how to prepare students with basic language skills that can be
used in daily life
communication meanwhile KSSR focuses on improvising the already
basic learnedskills to a better and effective communication. KSSR
was implemented in the year
of 2011 with new Modular based syllabus. The new curriculum is
based on six key
areas which are communication, spiritual attitude and values,
humanitarianism,
literacy in science and technology, physical and personal
development to produce
holistic individuals . My personal thought is students in basic
levels have to master
many skills in KSSR syllabus which later on can burden the
children. In other way all
the skills in KSSR curriculum is able to produce students whom
can face the global
challenge in future.
Both curriculums use textbook as their primary source of
knowledge
guidance in classrooms as it provides the standard content and
learning for the
students. The KSSR subjects are slightly different but
attractive and at the same
time, interactive for the students. Since Language Arts is
introduced to this
curriculum, I believe it provides an alternative for the
teachers to actually come up
with various ideas to convey a meaningful lesson in a way which
all the studentsenjoy. This leads to student- centred lessons where
activities such as songs, story -
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telling, role-play and even some language games for the students
to learn the
subjects by heart. It was very clear that a very radical
increase in learning subjects
using all the methods above to provide an efficient lesson for
students. This is why I
believe with a curriculum like KSSR, it will help the students
to actually learn the
subjects as natural as it can be and also for enjoyment purpose.
The noticeable
change would be the elevation from 3M as in Mengira
(Arithmetic), Membaca
(Reading) and Menulis (Writing) to 4M by maintaining the 3M but
adding one more,
Menaakul (Reflection) to it. I honestly believe that this extra
component actually
helps to build a positive minded student since he or she can
reflect on the potentials
and works on it to be successful. This is a good thing because
not everyone has the
chance to realize their potentials and end up making more wrong
decisions than they
actually should.
The change in KSSR from KBSR is the assessment and the amount
of
exposure one student gets out from their syllabus. KBSR is very
much exam-
oriented where the students are assessed formatively according
to their academic
performance in examinations meanwhile KSSR is a combination of
both formative
and summative assessment where the teacher will assess more on
development of
skills and it is done more individually. I think this is a
drastic change in our educationsystem. I believe with KSSR being
implemented students will have more chances to
succeed as they can develop many skills and assessed accordingly
to their
achievement. Furthermore, the amount of exposure that the
students get from
lessons such as Science, Technology and Humanity for a better
understanding is
unlimited.
To sum up, as a future educator who is going to teach the
students according
to KSSR, I believe that KSSR is a practical solution than KBSR
in order to produce
students who are balance with all the skills. I think the KSSR
curriculum system will
help to drill the students to prepare themselves to achieve
their dreams.
