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List of Claimable Items

Table 3 below shows the list of claimable items under LDS.
Table 3:
Broad Category Examples

Personal Development Courses
• Foreign Language courses
• IT courses
• Conference, seminars & motivational talks
• Courses on pedagogy, instruction and personal effectiveness
• Courses related to the teacher’s field of work e.g. Music courses for music teachers.
• Courses for activities that are existing CCAs or a new CCA that may be introduced in the school, e.g. tennis, aikido

Subscriptions to Professional Magazines & Periodicals
• National Geographic
• The Economist
• Newspapers
• Reader’s Digest, New Scientist, Times Magazine

Personal Productivity Devices
• Computers/Laptops
• PDAs
• Software which would aid teachers in their teaching capacity
• Internet connection, installation, subscription, related software/hardware and renewal fees etc
• Computer peripherals and components such as printer, thumbdrive, hard drive, scanner, etc
• Digital camera and accessories (e.g. memory card for camera, spare proprietary battery for digital camera etc)
• Video camera
• Electronic dictionary

Membership/entrance fees/subscriptions to professional Bodies & Societies • Academy of Principals subscription
• Membership to Borders, Kinokuniya or other educational bookstores

Enhancement of Cultural Awareness
• Exhibitions
• Plays/musicals

Reading materials
• Textbooks/assessments/reference books related to teacher’s field of work
• Self-improvement books
• Novels/non-fiction books

Educational Learning#
• Visit to zoo, birdpark, museum etc
• Learning journey
• Conservatory visits

Exchange Programmes#
• Teacher Work Attachment programmes
• Airfare/Expenses Incurred when attending conference related to teaching if there are no sponsorship involved.

# Schools should not ask officers to use their own LDS to pay for school trips as the LDS is intended for individual use and there are other sources of funding for these trips.

Currently for my camera ngah payment processing (eventhough I submitted the claim under the wrong category. Should be 'Personal Productivity Devices' but I put under 'Educational Learning' instead. Oh well.

Am gonna submit claim for Science Centre visit with Mahmudah & Harizah recently ;)

Enjoy eh Marliyana. Hopefully I get good results. It's my responsibility (more specific: amanah) to do so.

Teachers, don't complain. Just give your best and be happy for the benefits you get for being one.