GUIDELINES FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION ADMINISTRATION ON THE PROJECT OF LITTLE SCIENTIST HOUSE IN THAILAND UNDER THE OFFICE OF SURIN PRIMARY EDUCATIONAL SERVICE AREA 3

Abstract

The objectives of this research were 1) to study the conditions of early childhood education administration on the Project of Little Scientists in Thailand Project of the schools under the office of Primary Educational Service Area Office 3,   2) to study the methods of early childhood education administration on the Project of Little Scientists in Thailand Project of the schools under the office of Surin Primary Educational Service Area Office 3, and 3) to propose guidelines for early childhood education administration on the project of to the Little Scientists' in Thailand Project of the schools under the office of Surin Primary Educational Service Area Office  3. There were three management processes, i.e., management and administration processes, child-centered experiences, and child quality. The research design was a mixed method of quantitative and qualitative research. The research tools were questionnaires and interviews. The population was 702 people, including school administrators and early childhood teachers. The sample group was determined using Taro Yamane's table, resulting in a sample of 250 people. 7 key informants were specifically selected and were experts in school administration, early childhood education, and the Little Scientist House Project. There were 5 experts in research tools. The statistics used were mean, percentage, standard deviation, and content analysis.
The research results were found as follows:
1) Conditions of early childhood education administration on the project of Little Scientists House Project of the schools under the Primary Educational Service Area Office 3 of 3 aspects were at a high level in overall arrangement from the highest to the lowest, i.e., the quality of the children, the administrative and management processes, and the provision of child-focused experiences, respectively.
2) Methods for administering early childhood education on the Little Scientist House Project of the schools under Surin Primary Educational Service Area Office 3 were found as follows; (1) in the administrative process and management, there were the methods of budget support, budget planning meeting, and the action plan; (2) in the child-focused experience provision, there were the methods of encouragement to practice activities, media usage, and the environment conduced to learning so that children could record information and carried out activities efficiently, and (3) in the quality of children, there were the technological using,  activity design to encourage quality children to develop themselves both in knowledge and skills.
3) Guidelines for the administration of early childhood education on the Little Scientist House in Thailand of the schools under the office of  Surin Primary Educational Service Area project of Office 3were found as follows; In the administrative process and management, there should be the numbers of early childhood teachers suitable for the number of students, and a budget planning meeting; The child-focused experience provision, there should be training and development for teachers in organizing learning experiences and support the budget; and the quality of children, there should be teacher development and exchange knowledge on the development of children's quality, and should encourage to develop themselves in the use of technological media in organizing knowledge and skills experiences to children.