Saya sedang membuat persediaan untuk menghadiri kolokium Education Innovation Fest (EIF) pada 10 oktober hingga 14 Oktober 2010 di KLCC. Berikut adalah abstract presentation saya.
In the year 2009, Ampang Pecah National Secondary School has been awarded as the Best School in Utilizing the ICT in Teaching and Learning and also the Best School in Overall Category. One of the challenges to reach to this level was to engage the parents and outside communities. Engaging parents and communities is a challenge to a smart school program as the school need to put a lot of effort to inform them about the program as well as to make them aware and finally involved in most of the smart school activities. Nevertheless the challenge has been transformed into the best practice of this school. In order to engage the parents and the outside communities, there were a few steps taken. Beginning from the softening process then reshaping process and finally the reestablishing process. During the softening process, parents and outside communities should have unlearned the previous school culture, then during the reshaping process, the new school landscape of smart school is needed to be highlighted and during the final stage of reestablihing process, the newly entitled smart school should have been cultured among them. So, the engagement of parents and outside communities as the best practice of this school will be highlighted in this seminar. In engaging the parents and outside communities, the school has created a few activities like the launching of smart school program in school, briefing session, exhibition, collaboration, sponsorship, montage presentation, utilizing school website of e-complaint and e-suggestion. All these have engaged parents and outside communities extensively so that they would have better understanding of the culture of smart school and in the end it will be easier for the students as the target group in creating the smart school to have a full commitment as they already have full support from their parents and the outside communities.
