Abstract

The purposes of the research study were to a) study the current situation of school management and administration using professional learning community b) to develop professional learning community for the school administrators and c) follow up collaborative practice among school colleagues and administrators within school using professional learning community in Buriram Province. The researcher utilized focused interview sessions, group interview questionnaires, and Professional Learning observation within school to determine how the school colleagues perceived the implementation of professional learning communities. The results indicated that: 1) A school’s PLC isn’t working, common problems in Buriram Province include: a) Personal practice, b) Insufficient collaborative work, 3) Academics support, and 4) supportive conditions. 2) School administrators' competencies development after implementation of PLC workshop have an influence on process of using PLC in school. School administrators' competencies included supportive conditions for safe environment of PLC, creating environment that support learning collaboratively and respect for individual differences and developing collegial relationships for planning, following up of supervision process through action planning that support collaborative work among school colleagues. 3) Model of school administrators' competencies development in Buriram Province were a) a PDCA model incorporated with contemplative education that driven through small group of PLCs. This model utilized school administrators as coach and mentor to reflect on co-operation of group problem solving in the same group c) a PLC comprised of school teachers, coming together by grade level, content area, or through an interdisciplinary group. The purpose of a PLC was to build a community of teachers to focus on a common goal or objective collaboratively.

Highlights

  • Policy of the minister of education, fiscal year 2560, the development of teachers to improve the quality of learning fellow the guidelines of the king's philosophy by active learning and Professional Learning Community (PLC) to quality of Thailand 4.0

  • 3) Model of school administrators' competencies development in Buriram Province were a) a PDCA model incorporated with contemplative education that driven through small group of professional community (PLC)

  • School administrators should have the capacity to be consistent with the PLC process, ie, the administrators should have a leadership and commitment to management

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Introduction

Policy of the minister of education, fiscal year 2560, the development of teachers to improve the quality of learning fellow the guidelines of the king's philosophy by active learning and Professional Learning Community (PLC) to quality of Thailand 4.0. The process of teacher development by using school based of aggregation, mind, force, teachers collaboration, administrators and students to develop learning of child centered and not to add to the burden on teachers and be not too much to take the PLC training time. The Professional Learning Community (PLC) was a process of creating change by learning from it (Lunenburg, 2010) It worked on a group of people who came to work together and support each other, the purpose was to improve the learner's learning and put together the learning goals of the learner and examine, It reflected on individual performance and overall outcomes through a learning process, criticism, collaboration by focusing on and promoting a holistic learning process (Luis & Kruse, 1995). There were at least 5 issues were a) having a common goal in learning ies.ccsenet.org

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