The SMR Group is involved with training mentors and trainers for the two government programmes. Photos: The Star/Izzrafiq Alias
When Denise Cockerill first started work as a mentor in the Native Speaker Programme (Penutur Jati), she threw herself into teaching with gusto. The programme was introduced by the Government in 2011 to improve the teaching of English in primary schools. The British teacher, one of a select group of mentors or trainers, goes to five local schools to work with teachers on more interactive teaching methods.
“We do dances, songs and plays,” she says. “It’s not necessarily new methods, but methods we use in the west a lot.”
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