The Professional Skills of the Integrated Living Skills (ILS) Teachers

A teacher should have certain professional skills which are thinking and learning skills, planning and managing skills and also communicating and facilitating skills. Due to that, the Integrated Living Skills (ILS) teachers should have all the aforementioned skills so that they could ensure that the teaching ang learning process are effective. Thus the evaluation quality of the students will also be improved. Therefore this survey is carried out to identify certain professional skills which are needed by the ILS teachersto help them in the teaching and evaluating process and at the same time identify their professonal skills level. The descriptive observation is taking into consideration the teachers who are teaching ILS in secondary schools in Batu Pahat district as the respondents. The items constructed will not only be based on constructs on teaching and learning skills but also on managing, evaluating, planning and communicating skills. All the items constructed which will be used as the instrument for the survey is using the likert 5 scale range. The findings from the survey will be used to identify certains constructs which are certified by experts and impirically to identify the skills as well as the level of skills needed by the teachers to carry out the teaching and learning process for ILS.