SEAMEO-University ofTsukuba Symposium V
SEAMEO Priority Areas
and Collaborations
SEAMEO RECSAMNur Jahan Ahmad
Pedro L. Montecillo Jr.

SEAMEO RECSAM• SEAMEO RECSAM stands
for Southeast Asian
Ministers of Education
Organisation Regional
Centre for Education in
Science and Mathematics.
• Established by SEAMEO in
May 1967, SEAMEORECSAM is committed tonurture and enhance thequality of science,
mathematics andtechnology education in the
SEAMEO Member Countries• www.recsam.edu.my• Penang, MALAYSIA

SEAMEO RECSAMMission• To promote and enhance Science andMathematics Education in the SEAMEO member
countries
Vision• Leading centre for quality science andmathematics education
Motto• Passion for Learning

SEAMEO RECSAM Strategic Goals
SEAMEO RECSAM Achievement Report for
F.Y.20152016.mp4

Content• Highlights of SEAMEO RECSAM Projects- SEAMEO
Priority Areas & SDGs:– CoSMEd 2017
– SSYS– Embedding ESD into Science Textbook Content– LeSMaT– Entrepreneurship– Literacy of Socio-Scientific Understanding– SEA-BES– Cross Border Education for Lesson Study– Organic Farming– Other Capacity Development ProgrammeTitle of: 7th International Conference on Science and Mathematics Education
Project/Activity (CoSMEd 2017) 13-17 November 2017
SEAMEO: #1: Early childhood care and education
Priority Area
#2: Addressing barriers to inclusion#3: Resiliency in the face of emergencies#4: Promoting technical and vocational education and training(TVET)#5: Teacher Education#6: Harmonization in higher education and research#7: Adopting a 21st century curriculumSDG: #1-#17
Other SEAMEO : SEAMEO Secretariat
Centres and
SEAMEO QITEP in Mathematics, Jogjakarta, Indonesia
Partners
SEAMEO QITEP in Science, Bandung, Indonesia
SEAMEO SEN, Melaka, Malaysia
IPST, Thailand
UP-NISMED, Philippines
ASMaC Philippines
MOE of 11 SEAMEO Member countries
MEXT & NIE Japan
National universities (USM, UPM, UKM, USIM, IPG, UiTM, UM, UUM)CoSMEd 2017 Theme & Strands
www.recsam.edu.my/cosmed2017• Theme: Humanising STEM Education for Sustainable
Development Goals in the 21st Century• Strands– Strand 1: 21st Century Teaching and Learning Innovations– Strand 2: Teacher Professional Development– Strand 3: Curriculum, Assessment and Evaluation– Strand 4: STEM Education and Technical and Vocational
Education and Training– Strand 5: Science and Mathematics Education for Special
Needs Students

Background• This Conference has been organised once
every two years since 2005 as part ofRECSAM’s effort to enhance science andmathematics education in the region andbring together educationists and researchers
to discuss current issues in the teaching andlearning of science and mathematics

Aims• To provide a platform to review issues, exchange
ideas and share experiences on the developmentof science and mathematics education• To exchange ideas on CPD to sustain the
preparation of high quality science andmathematics teachers and educators• To encourage sharing of knowledge, skills, andexperiences with experts working on innovative
strategies to sustain science and mathematics
education• To strengthen professional networking amongscience and mathematics educators

Title of Project/Activity: Search for SEAMEO Young Scientist (SSYS)
Theme 2018: Youth Creativity for Harmonising SDG
SEAMEO Priority Area
: #3: Resiliency in the face of emergencies#6: Harmonization in higher education and research#7: Adopting a 21st century curriculumSDG: #4:Ensure inclusive and quality education for all andpromote lifelong learning#7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable andmodern energy for all#9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainableindustrialization and foster innovation#11: Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable#17: Revitalize the global partnership for sustainable
development
Other SEAMEO Centres and : Schools in SEAMEO Member countries and beyond
Partners

Background• The Search for SEAMEO Young Scientists(SSYS) is a gathering of young scientists allover the ASEAN region as a venue for sharing
and dissemination of information on theirscientific and mathematical research projects.
• It was initiated in 1997 and since then, hasbeen held every two years with a specifictheme.

Aims• To increase the awareness of young learners
about the relationship between science,
mathematics, technology, environment, economy
and society• To encourage young learners to apply scientificand mathematical knowledge into technologicalproblem-solving activities to address sustainable
development.
• To foster networking among these young learners
through science and mathematics congresses,
exhibitions and competitions

Expected Outcomes• Recognition of the students’ research projects• Innovative ideas and products– E.g. Winner- An android application for efficientdisaster kit procurement for low-level flood(Philippines)• Awareness of the recent development inscience, technology and mathematics• Utilisation of soft skills, living skills andentrepreneurship skills

Title ofProject/Activity: Embedding ESD into Science Textbook Content

SEAMEO Priority : #3: Resiliency in the face of emergencies
Area#5: Teacher Education#7: Adopting a 21st century curriculumSDG: #1-#17
Other SEAMEO : UNESCO MGIEP
Centres and
MOE Malaysia
Partners
National universities (USM, UPM, UKM, USIM, IPG, UiTM, UM,
UUM)

Background• A collaboration and networking with UNESCOMGIEP for textbook preparation embedding
peace and global citizenship education forsustainable development in 4 learning areas:
Science, Mathematics, Geography and Languages• Providing information to UNESCO MGIEP on how
to make an impact on Science and Mathematics
textbooks in South East Asia
• Provide technical expert from RECSAM• Possibility to conduct regional training for Asia
region in RECSAM

Expected Outcomes• Capacity building for textbook writers• Publication of the Textbook Writing Manual inglobal platformTitle of Project/Activity: SEAMEO Student Networking for ‘Learning Science andMathematics Together’ (LeSMaT): #3: Resiliency in the face of emergencies#5: Teacher Education#6: Harmonization in higher education and research#7: Adopting a 21st century curriculumSDG: #3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all
at all ages
#4:Ensure inclusive and quality education for all andpromote lifelong learning#6: Ensure access to water and sanitation for all#7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable andmodern energy for all#9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainableindustrialization and foster innovation#11: Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
Other SEAMEO Centres and : SEAMEO QITEP in Mathematics (SEAQIM) and Science
Partners(SEAQIS), SEAMEO INNOTECH, SEAMOLEC, SEAMEO
SPAFA
SEAMEO Priority Area

Aims
• To prepare students to become global players withmoral values who are enterprising, creative, innovative,
equipped with 21st century skills and lifelong learners
in cross-cultural learning environment• To share resources through blended-mode learning
environment rich with easy access information mainly
from Open Education Resources (OERs) includinginterdisciplinary and cross-curricular studies• To develop global citizenship skills with moral values
and ethics to be developed from early years’ education
include thinking, technology and life (work/
entrepreneurial/ survival) skills

Themes of Modules
i. Tele-care and Healthy Lifestyle
ii. Conservation and Wise Use of Resourcesiii. Climate Change Awareness and Disaster Risk
Reduction Education
iv. Sustainable Energy for All

Features
ODL modules• Student-centred• Project/Problem-based Learning• Inquiry-based Learning
Digital Platforms• Edmodo• D-book• Learning Activities Management Systems (LAMS)• Others

Expected Outcomes• Promotion of student networking with thestrengthening of SEAMEO collaboration throughteaching, learning and assessment acrosseducational systems• Enhancement of thinking, technology, life (work/
entrepreneurial/ survival) skills;• Development of enriched cross cultural/interdisciplinary curricula with emphasis onvalues education, global citizenship as well as
Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and
Education for Sustainable Living (ESL)Title of Project/Activity: Entrepreneurship in Science Education

SEAMEO Priority Area

: #4: Promoting technical and vocational educationand training (TVET)#5. Teacher Education#7: Adopting a 21st century curriculum: #1:End poverty in all its forms everywhere#2: End hunger, achieve food security andimproved nutrition and promote sustainableagriculture#4:Ensure inclusive and quality education for all
and promote lifelong learning#8: Promote inclusive and sustainable economic
growth, employment and decent work for all#12: Ensure sustainable consumption andproduction patterns#17: Revitalize the global partnership forsustainable development: MOE/Education Department
SEAMEO Centres
11 SEAMEO Member countries

SDG

Other SEAMEO Centres
and Partners

Aims• To explore basic concepts, procedures, stages andessential indices for acquiring entrepreneurial
skills in globalised teaching enterprise byteachers, lecturers and students• To acquire entrepreneurial skills in theprofessional development and the essential
pedagogical strategies that can be used byeducators in the field of science education• To minimise challenges by using Entrepreneurship
Education on how to sustain life by applying
entrepreneurship knowledge and skills

Expected Outcomes• Skills and knowledge on how to integrate
entrepreneurial skills in science education, as
well as to integrate STEM elements in scienceand entrepreneurship in the form of
exemplar/ module for schools

Title of Project/Activity: Literacy Of Socio-scientific Understanding

SEAMEO Priority Area

: #3: Resiliency in the face of emergencies#5: Teacher Education#7: Adopting a 21st century curriculum: #1-#17

SDG
Other SEAMEO Centres
and Partners: MOE/Education Department
SEAMEO Centres
11 SEAMEO Member countries

SSI• The socio-scientific issues (SSI) are often
controversial in nature but have the added
element of requiring a degree of moral
reasoning or the evaluation of ethicalconcerns in the process of arriving at decisions
regarding possible resolution of those issues.

Literacy Of Socio-scientific Understanding• Items were constructed for students aged 14
years old in five main areas:– Environment- Climate change, natural disaster andrisk reduction– Human health- Diet and nutrition, disease
prevention and control– Technology- Cyber security and social media– Renewable and non-renewable resources andsustainable living

Expected Outcomes• A research report of survey from SEAMEOMember countries• A guide book for teachers and educators

Title of Project/Activity

SEAMEO Priority Area

SDG
Other SEAMEO Centres
and Partners: SEAMEO Basic Education Standards (SEA-BES):
Common Core Regional Learning Standards in Science(CCRLS): #1: Early childhood care and education#5: Teacher Education#6. Harmonization in higher education and research#7: Adopting a 21st Century Curriculum: #1-17: SEAMEO Secretariat
SEAMEO QITEP in Mathematics, Jogjakarta, Indonesia
SEAMEO QITEP in Science, Bandung, Indonesia
SEAMEO SEAMOLEC, Indonesia
SEAMEO SEN, Melaka, Malaysia
IPST, Thailand
UP-NISMED, Philippines
MOE of 11 SEAMEO Member countries
MEXT & NIE Japan
Japanese Professional Experts (Toho University, Shizuoka
University, Chiba University)

Aims• To provide world-class learning standards in Scienceand Mathematics, including 21st century skills thatcan be used as benchmarks in SEAMEO Member
Countries to ensure all students have access tofundamental knowledge, skills and values in order tobe socially responsible, globally competitive andsustainable.

Background• The output document will be referred to as ‘Common
Core Regional Learning Standards (CCRLS) in Scienceand Mathematics.
• The CCRLS in Science and Mathematics can be used tobenchmark the quality of SEAMEO Member Countries’
national curriculum.
• This will help to create equity in curriculum provisions
across countries and learning expectations for all
students and learning outcomes that will enable
students to contribute productively to their individual
country and the region.

Consultants• Science Education: Dr. Mark Windale, Principal
Lecturer in Science Education and Director ofInternational Programme, Centre for Science
Education, Sheffield Hallam University, United
Kingdom• Mathematics Education: Prof Masami Isoda,
Professor, Faculty of Human Science and Directorof the Centre on International Cooperation in
Educational Development (CRICED), University ofTsukuba, Tokyo, Japan.

Common Core Regional Learning Standards(CCRLS) in Science (Key Stage 1-9)
• Strand 1: Scientific Inquiry• Strand 2: Life and the Living World• Strand 3: The Material World• Strand 4: Energy and Change• Strand 5: Earth and Space• Strand 6: Science, Technology, Environment
and Society

Common Core Regional Learning Standards (CCRLS) in
Mathematics• Key Stage 1– Numbers & Operations– Quantity &Measurement– Shapes, Figures and Solids– Pattern & Data Representations• Key Stage 2– Extension of Number and Operations– Measurement & Relations– Plane Figures & Space Solids– Data Representations & Graphs• Key Stage 3– Numbers & Algebra– Space & Geometry– Relationship & Functions– Statistics and Probability

Expected Outcomes• To encourage the Ministries of Education topilot or make use of the CCRLS to address feltneed and for other purposes such as
curriculum benchmarking, student assessment
in mathematical and scientific literacy,
continuing professional development ofteachers and quality education

Title of Project/Activity
SEAMEO Priority Area:
SDG

Other SEAMEO Centres
and Partners: Cross Border Education for Lesson Study: #5. Teacher Education#7: Adopting a 21st century curriculum: #4: Ensure inclusive and quality education for all andpromote lifelong learning#7:Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable
and modern energy for all#8:Promote inclusive and sustainable economic
growth, employment and decent work for all#9:Build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainableindustrialization and foster innovation#11:Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient andsustainable#12:Ensure sustainable consumption and production
patterns: University of Tsukuba
UP-NISMED, Philippines
MOE of 11 SEAMEO Member countries

Aims• To provide an opportunity for exchanging
ideas of students from both Malaysia andother countries.
• To be aware of the similarities and differences
between the two economies in relation toenergy.
• To benefit from the lesson demonstration anddiscussions on the sample exercise given tothem.

The Lesson Implementation(Malaysia)

APEC-KKU Symposium
12-15 November 2016

The Lesson Implementation(Philippines)

APEC-KKU Symposium
12-15 November 2016

Expected Outcomes• Students’ engagement despite language barrier• Students learn:• Cost of electricity in Malaysia and the partnering school• The source of energy in each country• Natural recourses in each country• Other matters such as subsidy etc.
• Important roles in quantifying the energy utilization toqualify the term efficiency in the context of energy
conservation and scientific concepts on energy
transformation• Differences in the curriculum

APEC-KKU Symposium
12-15 November 2016

Title of Project/Activity: Organic Farming

SEAMEO Priority Area

: No. 3: Resiliency in the face of emergency
No. 4: Promoting technical and vocational education andtraining(TVET): #1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere#2:End hunger, achieve food security and improved
nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture#3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at
all ages#4: Ensure inclusive and quality education for all andpromote lifelong learning#8: Promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth,
employment and decent work for all#11: Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable#12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production
patterns#15: Sustainably manage forests, combat desertification,
halt and reverse land degradation, halt biodiversity loss
Other SEAMEO Centres and : MOE/Education Department
Partners
SEAMEO Centres
11 SEAMEO Member countries
SDG

Awareness:
There is a need to grow vegetables
organically and there is a big market totap on this demand since many of us are
beginning to be conscious of the cost ofcancer treatment in public or private
hospitals.
The workshop is conducted to expose the techniques to thepotential researchers, teachers and students on organic farming.
In line with the SEAMEO Priority Area No. 4, this project aims to develop
the technical vocational skills of both teachers and students to address theissue of poverty, food security and environmental sustainability.

Organic farming is proposed here as a subject to be incorporated in STEMrelated activities at schools both in primary and secondary levels.
SEAMEO RECSAM can come in and stand as a potential institute to train
local citizens for this purpose and can be offered to other SEAMEOMember Countries as well.

Expected Outcomes• The potential of this activity at homes and thiscan generate money for the students who areserious in this occupation to train more
professional in science, agriculture andorganic farming in future• Possible collaboration among SEAMEO
Centres and beyond

Other Capacity Development Programme•

REGULAR COURSES OFFERED BY SEAMEO RECSAM FOR FISCAL YEAR
2016/2017 (3 – 28 APRIL 2017)

Course CodeCourse Title

RC-PS-141-1

Fostering Higher Order Thinking Skills inPrimary Science Education
Enhancing Mathematical Thinking in
Secondary Classrooms
Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL):
Enhancing Primary Science Teaching and
Learning through Technology
Enhancing Secondary Mathematics Teachingand Learning through Professional Learning
Community

RC-SM-141-2
RC-PS-141-3

RC-SM-141-4

No. of Scholarships
Offered Per Country
2
2
1

2

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