SYMBOLIC LAUNCHING: Yong (right) launches the ‘UPSR Countdown’ programme while SK Tabuan Jaya l headmaster Sakeran Osman (left) and the PTA vice-president Hamdan Amir look on.
KUCHING: Members of Parent-Teacher Associations (PTA) must discharge their responsibility to enable the objectives outlined in the Malaysia Education Blueprint (PPPM) be achieved in the best manner.
Deputy Minister of Works Datuk Yong Khoon Seng said this at the ‘Teachers and Parents Education Programme’ held by the PTA of SK Tabuan Jaya here yesterday.
He added that the PPPM was an effort by the government to ensure the achievements of all schools, including national type schools in the country, were on par with international standards.
“The PPPM involves all educators, schools, parents, and the community to develop a better generation equipped with knowledge.
“We will need to put in more efforts to meet the tougher challenges and workload to achieve the objectives of the PPPM,” he said.
The Stampin MP also said that parents and community involvement would enable the country’s education system to change for the better to produce excellent students, adding it had been proven that parents’ involvement in their children’s education could bring obvious achievement in their children.
At the same time, while it was important for parents to focus on their children’s academic development, they should not give too much pressure but more encouragement, emotional support and motivation, he said.
Yesterday’s programme saw more than 100 people participating.
Among the objectives were to enable parents to better understand their children’s wants and needs; to better understand their children’s problems and how to solve them; to encourage parents to be active in managing their children’s academic development; to create close cooperation between parents and teachers; as well as to expose parents to the strengths and weaknesses of students in academic achievement.
Yong later announced an allocation of RM10,000 for the school’s PTA.