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Discuss the roles of teachers as practitioners, analysts and researcher in meeting our
nation`s aspirations for Malaysian students as outlined in the Malaysian Education
Blueprint (2013 -2025).
Our country education ministry has introduced the Malaysian Education Blueprint 2013 2025 (MEB) by the Malaysian Ministry of Education (MoE) as an effort to better our education
system. In order to achieve it aspirations, it will require teachers to perform a variety of roles.
These roles include knowledge and skills practitioner, reflective practitioner, agents of
socialization, agent of change and researcher.
One of the teacher`s roles are as knowledge and skills practitioners. Brown (2007)
mentioned that teachers can play many roles in the course of teaching and this might facilitate
the learning. Their ability to carry these out effectively will depend on their own level of
knowledge and skills. Hence, teachers must first be effective knowledge and skills practitioners
to assume roles such as mentor, counsellor, and motivator, learning facilitators and knowledge
disseminators of effectively. They need have sound understanding of theoretical knowledge in
and skilled in pedagogy and content, basic education psychology, sociology, philosophy and
subject matter knowledge (Lourdusamy & et al., 2005). Teachers, as skilled practitioners are
able to solve immediate practical problems, reflect on their practices to develop quality learning
opportunity for their students (Sachs, 2000). Thus, teachers, to be knowledge and skilled
practitioners, have responsibility to practice lifelong learning all purposeful learning activity,
undertaken on an ongoing basis with the aim of improving knowledge, skills and competence
(European Commission, 2000; Borg & Mayo, 2004).
Hence, teachers, by being knowledge and skills practitioners, will be competent in
applying theoretical knowledge in various pedagogical contexts and subsequently will able to
provide quality education to every students. It is hoped that through quality education, as
emphasized in the MEB, teachers will focus on building students that are not just excelled at
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