As an effort to support governments’ initiative to boost science subject teaching in secondary school, CSSC Education Unit organized a week long Training of Trainers (ToT) session to enhance teachers’ skills in laboratory management and techniques.

The training aimed at providing science subject teachers with techniques of organizing, managing, designing, standardizing and conducting cost effective laboratory experiment in a creative way by using the locally available resources.

The training was purposely conducted to cover the gaps of teachers who were trained during the previous Min Starter Experimental Approach (Min-SEA) as some of them are no longer teaching due to several reasons including: retirement, transfer to other schools, death and change of professional as secondary school teachers.

CSSC found that is was a high time to train and retrain other ToT to cover the gaps for the purpose of improving teaching of science especially in practical. CSSC believe that teaching with practical could make both students and teachers to understand the subject well because touching, smelling and observing could stimulate divergent thinking, creativity, innovative and search for knowledge from various sources through scientific ways.

A total of 23 teachers were trained while the important issues of major concern were poor standard of existing laboratories in many schools, high teacher-pupil ratio in classes which impair effective science teaching, school owners ignoring technical advice from science teachers when it comes to laboratories.