Impact of Principals' Managerial Roles Under School-based Management on School Improvement at Urban Secondary Schools of Bangladesh

This article aims al observing the relationship between principals' managerial roles and the improvement of schools and the impacts of principals' managerial roles toward school improvement based on the school-based management. This research uses 127 principals and 694 teachers of urban secondary schools of Bangladesh as the sample. Schools are becoming better when the principals give more emphasizing on strategic plan, supportive and comprehensive roles but less emphasizing on shared decision making. The findings of this study offer valuable information for policy makers and educational managers, especially the principals and teachers. Key words: Principals managerial roles, school-based management, teachers' Professional development activities, school improvement &nbsp

Multicultural education as a reform initiative: reconstructing teacher preparation for Malaysian ``Vision Schools''

This article reports a case study of three ``Vision Schools'' in Malaysia. The Vision Schools house the Malay, Mandarin, and Tamil vernacular primary schools in the same compound, which allow their members to share space and facilities, and jointly organize school events. These have been constructed to promote cultural awareness, co-existence, and cooperation among the students of different racial and ethnic groups by creating opportunities for them to come together and mingle, learn about one another's way of life, and become culturally tolerant and informed. The key players in the promotion of the ideals of the Vision Schools are the teachers who, however, have not been able to bring forth their contribution. The study reveals that they have to have a multicultural mind-set and conceptual understanding of multiculturalism. They also have to be pedagogically proficient and be provided with a proper curricular structure and content in multicultural education. It is imperative that these aspects are incorporated in teacher development programs for successful implementation of multiculturalism

Effective School Model; Malaysian Perspective

The excellence education has become the primary concern for achievement to compete in this global village. Since the technological and vocational higher education became one of the essential elements in the educational road map, students are expected to be more skillful than the one of regular university. This stutfy reviews the development of effective learning systems and examines the relationship between employability and effective learning systems from students' perception. The results found that the model indicates a highly acceptable fit between the model and data. Also, there exists significant direct effect between employability and effective learning systems. Key words: school model, Malaysian

Enhancing Creative Imagination of Preschoolers Through the Use of Traditional Malay Children's Songs

This study is an endeavor to promote music as an effective learning tool to boost children's creativity in educational setting.  To facilitate this effort, a learning model on stimulating imagination through traditional Malay children's songs has been designed to enhance creative cognition among preschool children. In completion of this study, Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) is used as a data collection method to construct the designed learning model. The ISM approach helps the study to easily identify the relation between learning activities and understand the relation to the overall structure of the creative imagination enhancement model being developed.  The designed learning model focuses on teaching with emphasis given on roles and relationships between teachers' theories and classroom teaching practices on imagination and creativity. Thus, this study will generally benefit and bring a positive impact on the Malaysian education system

Kepimpinan Moral Pengetua Pemacu Keberkesanan Sekolah: Satu Tinjauan Awal

There are many styles of head teacher\u27s leadership, from trait style up to transformational style. Each style has its weaknesses to reject in relations with the environmental changes. This examination introducing a new style of head teacher educational leadership in Malaysia, i.e moral leadership. This research carried out af 6 schools, covered of 55 teachers as respondents giving their opinion about the implementation of moral leadership by their own head teacher. Data collected using research questionnaire are analysed using SPSS 13.0 version, including descriptive statistic techniques (such as means) and inferential one (such as t-test and ANOVA). The research results showed that there is not any significant differences among gender on head teacher\u27s moral leadership actualization, but showed significant correlation between moral leadership actualization and head teacher\u27s experience. This research has also found out that the main aspect of moral leadership actualization frequently performed by the head teachers is community development, followed by showing justice, honesty, and respecting and serving the school members. This research has found out also that the experienced head teachers more often \< actualize moral leadership than the new and nearly pension head teachers. For these reasons, it is better to positioning teacher to be head teacher based on their performance than their job status in education