Training Course Construction on Professional Learning Community (PLC) for Vocational Teachers in the Eastern Region

Vocational Teachers

บทคัดย่อ

The research on training course construction on professional learning community (PLC) for vocational teachers in the eastern region was carried out with two main objectives; 1) to develop a training course curriculum on the PLC for vocational teachers in the eastern region and, 2) to validate the effectiveness of the developed training program on the PLC for vocational teachers in the eastern region. The participants in this study were 20 vocational teachers in the eastern region. The researcher analyzed the data with the following statistics; 1) the mean and standard deviation were used to compute the descriptive data, the IOC score, the difficulty level, the discrimination level. The E1 and E2 score were used for determining the quality of the research tools, and 2) the t-test was used to determine the differences in the means between the pretest and post test scores.

The results of the study were as follows;

1. The developed training course curriculum on the PLC for vocational teachers in the eastern region consisted of four elements: 1) objectives, 2) content, 3) learning experiences, and 4) evaluation.
2. The results of the effectiveness validation of the developed training program according to E1/E2 were that E1 = 83.62, and E2 = 86.10.
3. The results of the training implementation with 20 vocational teachers in the eastern region showed that the post-training scores exceeded the pre-training scores.
4. In regard to the follow-up after training, it was found that the aim of knowledge and the recommendations after the training on the Professional Learning Community were at high levels in all aspects.