The Study of the Components of Guidance Teacher Development to Promote Further Education of Learners at the Vocational Level

Abstract

The objectives of this research were to examine the components of guidance teacher development to promote further education for learners in the field of vocational education. The target groups consisted of school guidance teachers affiliated with both the Office of the Basic Education Commission and the Office of the Private Education Commission in Samut Prakan Province. The research sample comprised 30 individuals who met specific criteria: possession of a master's degree and over ten years of experience in teaching guidance. The instrument used was a questionnaire on the components of guidance teacher development to promote further education of learners at the vocational level, consisting of four aspects with a total of 11 items. The reliability of the questionnaire was confirmed with a Cronbach's Alpha Coefficient of 0.79. Data were analyzed using mean () and standard deviation (S.D.).

The findings revealed that the components of guidance teacher development aimed at promoting further education in vocational education consisted of four main components: 1) Pre-Activity component, surveying the need for guidance teacher development to reinforce the decision to pursue further vocational education; 2) Activities component, the development of the guidance teachers' competencies to reinforce decision-making in further vocational education; 3) Result component, the results from the development of teacher competencies to enhance decision-making in further vocational education through the guidance teacher's training processes; and 4) Outcome component, the outcomes experienced by learners after guidance teachers organized activities to reinforce the decision to pursue education at the vocational level. Overall, the components of the guidance teacher development model to promote further education of vocational learners at were appropriate at the highest level (= 4.65, S.D.=0.72).