PRESENTATION

Topic Date Presenter

1. The concept of Culture and the Importance of Understanding the Concept

 Meaning and the concept of culture
 Race and ethnic in Malaysia
 Race and ethnic demography in Malaysia
 The Importance of understanding the concept of culture to teachers

2. Socioculture and Sociocultural Development in Classroom

 The meaning of Socioculture
 Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory
 Lev Vygotsky’s Sociocultural Theory of Development
 Role of teacher in sociocultural development in the classroom

3. Awareness of Sociocultural Diversity in Malaysia

 Awareness of sociocultural diversity in Malaysia
- Race
- Language
- Social Structure
- Belief System
- Custom and Rituals

 The importance of socio-cultural awareness to teachers in Malaysia

4. Roles and Implications of Sociocultural Diversity to the Education System in

Malaysia
 Roles and implications of Sociocultural diversity in following aspects:
- Students
- Teachers
- School
- Curriculum

5. Equality in Educational Opportunities in Malaysia

 Equality in Educational Opportunities
- Gender
- Social Class
- Interior
- Minority groups

 Education Programmes For All in Malaysia

- Education Programmes for Indigenous and Interior
- Juvenile Education Programmes
- Remedial Education Programmes
- Education Programmes for children with special needs
- School in the Hospital
- School for the homeless and abandoned children ( Sekolah Bimbingan Jalinan Kasih )
- Under-enrolled school

 Challenges of Educational Equity in Malaysia

6. Developing Nation Building in the School’s Sociocultural Diversity

 The concept fo nation building
- To enhance the national language
- To strengthen national integration
- To instill the passion towards arts, heritage and national culture

 Initiatives to develop nation building

 The roles of teachers in developing nation building
7. Management of a Cultural Friendly Classroom
 Aspects of management
- physical
- emotion
- social
- sociolinguistic

 Cultural Friendly Pedagogy

- Pedagogy for the main stream
- Pedagogy for combine class
- Pedagogy for the Indigenous

 Cultural friendly based assessment

8. Effective Communication in a Cultural Friendly Classroom

 Effective communication skills
- verbal and non-verbal
- language register
- politeness

 The national language as medium of unity

 The importance of effective communication skills

9. Teacher as an Agent of Cultural Friendly in the Community, National and Global

 Cultural friendly programmes
- Collaborative programmes with Parent Teacher Association
- Smart partnership with government and private agencies

 Characteristics of cultural friendly teachers;

- Personal
- Professional
- Behavioural practice

 Role of teacher as cultural friendly agent