RETOOLING SCIENCE TEACHING ON STABILITY TOPIC FOR STEM EDUCATION: MALAYSIAN CASE STUDY

Abstract

By 2020, Malaysia needs to develop its workforce capacity in order to obtain the 500,000 STEM human capital requirement for the New Key Economic Areas (NKEAs). Therefore, an effort of retooling teaching and learning of science teachers is a part of the planning in catalyst STEM human capital. Science teachers require refreshment in teaching and learning approach of pedagogy to enhance the student understanding in the subject matter and stability topic is chose as the initial idea to attract the student interest in STEM activities. This study aims to introduce a teaching aid Arts and Stability Card (A&S Card) to help teachers to diversify the teaching concept of stability science through A&S Card. 300 science teachers across the 10 districts from Perak state, provided their perceptions upon the modules via questionnaire in two parts: a pedagogical approach to teaching and learning, and training suitability. The reliability test of Chronbach’s Alpha to the pedagogical approach to teaching and learning scored 0.868 while training suitability obtained 0.874, which fall under the very good category of reliability results. The mean result score of 4.29 and 4.17 to the pedagogical approach to teaching and learning, and training suitability, where the results indicate A&S Card module and training were successfully conducted. Besides, this module also contains the value of creativity and innovation to build a fun learning in a science subject and the concept can be replicated for other science subject.

Keywords

• Arts and stability card
• Soft skill
• STEM education
• Teaching aid