Malaysian Teacher Norhailmi Abdul Mutalib has made the top 50 shortlist for the Global Teacher Prize 2020. To tackle the educational problems caused by poverty, Norhailmi’s approach is to empower his students by letting them decide how they will learn. The Ministry of Education named him their first Icon Teacher for STEM
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Norhailmi believed that he should give something back to society, so he chose to help others and become a teacher. At the school he now teaches in, many of the students are of humble background: a large majority live with less than $10,000 per annum, and problems of low self-esteem often lead to behavioural issues.
The Flipped Classroom approach, which Norhailmi advocates, has also given his students’ performance a huge boost: in science, the percentage of students getting an A grade has increased drastically from only 3.9% in 2015 to 29.9% in 2017.
Norhailmi was named Science Ambassador for the Community by the Malaysian Ministry of Science, Technology Innovation in 2016, and in 2017.
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