A STUDY OF THE NEEDS TO DEVELOP TEACHING COMPETENCIES OF MORALITY TEACHING MONKS IN SCHOOLS OF NONGKHAI PROVINCE

Abstract

         The objectives of this research were 1) to study the needs to develop teaching competencies of morality teaching monks in schools of Nongkhai Province, 2) to study the development guideline of teaching competencies of morality teaching monks in schools of Nongkhai Province. This research was a mixed method research. The sample group used in this research were 210 morality teaching monks in schools of Nongkhai Province. The data collection tools were form of checklist questionnaires, and the estimation scale data analysis uses basic statistics by finding the percentage, mean, standard deviation.

The results showed that the needs to develop teaching competencies of morality teachings monks in schools of Nongkhai Province, overall aspects were at a high level ( = 4.02). Considering each aspect, it was found that the aspect with the highest mean was the teaching implementation aspect with the mean (  = 4.09), then followed by the content and curriculum with mean (  = 4.02), followed by production and media consumption with mean (  = 4.00), and evaluation aspect with mean (  = 3.98), respectively. Guidelines for development of teaching competencies of morality teaching monks in schools of Nongkhai Province found that the content and curriculum aspect should organize a workshop on the curriculum and planning work for monks to teach morality in an orderly manner. In production and use of media aspect, should be train in the use of media, technology and artificial media for morality teaching monks and support the budget for teaching operations and should be organize a workshop on teaching and learning management, techniques, methods of teaching for morality teaching monks. Evaluation aspect, should be organize training to increase the efficiency in measuring and evaluating learning outcomes according to actual conditions for morality teaching monks.