Research Report of Coupon for Teacher Development Project under the Curriculum of Training Teachers for Developing Learning Achievement Applying Contemplative Studies, Chaiyaphum Province

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to study the teachers’ development under the Coupon for Teacher Development Project (CTDP) for developing learning achievement that emphasized process skills of Foreign Language subjects (English), taught adhering to contemplative education philosophy. The target group was 52 teachers who taught in the schools under the Office of Primary Educational Service Area Office 1-3 and the Office of the Secondary Educational Service Area Office 30, Chaiyaphum Province. Guidelines for the development included: 1) reviewing the documents and learning from resources before getting involved with the development program, 2) studying from the trainers and university professors through coaching and mentoring method via contemplative education guidelines,
3) learning from innovations and models of learning activities, 4) authentic working performance, 5) exchanging the knowledge by group process, 6) following, evaluating and reflecting the development, 7) sharing activities.  Research instruments were the observation form of teachers’ training, the first and second instructional supervision form, the report form of the supervision under the CTDP, the form of learning outcomes of teachers, the evaluation form of teachers’ satisfaction. Analyzing the data, the quality data were employed by using content analysis; quantity data were operated by mean and standard deviation.

The research results were found that: the development of teachers under the CTDP, the curriculum of teachers’ development for learning achievement, Foreign Language subjects by contemplative education teaching in Chaiyaphum Province, had made the teachers understand and enable to apply it in their teaching. The evident had shown that the teachers could analyze the curriculum, create their lesson plans and learning activities and enable to evaluate the students’ learning in contemplative education teaching. The researchers could find them from the results of teaching supervision of teachers who involved in this project; the mean of teaching performance had increased higher both as a whole and in every aspect. The teachers’ satisfactions were at a high level. Moreover, the quality data showed that the teachers understood and enable to teach via the contemplative teaching very well. Apart from visiting the classroom, the teachers created the various activities for example singing, games, individual activities, group activities, and presentation activities which made the students get the knowledge and understanding, practicing, and expressing their opinions. The teachers used various teaching Media to arouse and support students’ learning.