ABSTRACT
Knowledge transfer is an essential element of academic excellence in the 21st-century university. Besides teaching and research, academics in Malaysia are called to contribute to the nation’s building through sharing of knowledge and engaging with the community. The Knowledge Transfer Program (KTP) is one of the strategies by the Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE) of Malaysia to encourage the transfer of knowledge created at public universities to benefit the community and industry through the KTP grant scheme. This chapter will share our experience as researchers-cum-instructional designers who participated in a knowledge transfer project to bring about change in the instrdefines “uctional supervision experienced by elementary school teachers in Malaysia. The chapter describes the inspiration behind the KTP as an attempt by our Malaysian universities to participate in the Scholarship of Engagement (SoE), emphasizing a reciprocal relationship between public universities and communities. We will share the philosophy and the process of bringing the school community into the Developmental Instructional Supervision (DIS) project and the team’s journey to collaborating with the school community. We will reflect on our journey and the challenges faced in developing our skills as researchers in community-based research and how we have impacted the community of teachers in the four schools that we engaged.
