The Teachers’ Ability in Designing Learning Activities with Design Thinking Process to Add Value of Local Products: A Case Study of Bokaew Wittaya School, Kamphaengphet Province.

ความสามารถครูในการออกแบบกิจกรรมการเรียนรู้ด้วยกระบวนการคิดเชิงออกแบบ เพื่อเพิ่มมูลค่าผลิตภัณฑ์ท้องถิ่น : กรณีศึกษาโรงเรียนบ่อแก้ววิทยา จังหวัดกำแพงเพชร

Abstract

Schools in the community have their own additional courses curriculum based on their identity and led to the local products producing. Therefore, it is necessary to enhance teachers' ability to design activities. The purposes of this research were 1) to synthesize behaviors indicating of learning activity design with design thinking process to add value of local products 2) to study the teachers' ability in designing learning activities with design thinking processes to add value of local products. The target group was compiled of 23 teachers at Borkaew Witthaya School, Kampangphet province. The research instruments were a teacher training activity plan, an assessment form for the ability in design learning activities with design thinking process, and teaching observation form. The study divided into two phases. At first, starting with workshop for 12 hours and then following with the lesson study for one semester. The data were analyzed by content analysis and mean.  Research findings were as follows:

1. Behavior indicating the design of learning activities with design thinking process to add value of local products, in summary, coach students to create new product forms, sales forms, or novel packaging forms and added value in consideration of the needs of users with 5-step process, such as empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test, that was appropriate at a good level.
2. The teachers’ ability in designing learning activities with design thinking process to add value of local products. The overall level is good, with the highest score was prototyping and the lowest score was the level of understanding the problem. Therefore, teacher development should focus on empathize and define stages because both were most important stages of design thinking process.