Teacher quality is a pivotal educational issue that has been examined for years. According to the Malaysia Education Blueprint (2013-2025) report, teacher quality can be categorised into excellent with 55.1 percent, high with 39.9 percent, moderate with 4.8 percent, low with 0.2 percent in comparison to the previous year. This phenomenon is worrying as the excellent teacher quality needs to exceed 70 percent to meet the challenges of 21st century education. This current study is a quantitative study involving 423 secondary school teachers throughout Malaysia. Data collection is carried out using the questionnaire method based on the Malaysian Teacher Standard (SGM). The findings showed that the quality of teachers in Malaysia is excellent. The highest level of teacher quality is the practice of professionalism value while the lowest level of teacher quality is knowledge and understanding.
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