Development of Primary Students’ Competency Using Collaboration of Active Learning Management

Abstract

             The purpose of this research were: 1) explore basic information on proactive teaching and learning,  competency development for primary school students and teacher development guidelines. 2) create and develop and apply the teacher development program on collaborative active learning to develop teachers and 3) study student competencies after learning with collaborative active learning to develop the competencies of elementary school students. The target group includes 138 primary school teachers, 5 experts, and 34 students, academic year 2023. Tools include teacher development programs, questionnaires, competency assessment forms, satisfaction questionnaires and performance observation form. Statistics were used in the research included frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, t-test and content analysis.
             The research result found that:
             1. Proactive teaching and learning management by teachers is overall at a moderate level. The overall needs for promoting student competency are at the highest level. Overall teacher development guidelines are at a high level and interest in training is mostly at a high level.
             2. The program has 7 elements, including the background of the national strategy aimed at developing all-round people, especially student competencies in 5 areas, through the management of proactive learning in a combined 5 As for the principle, it is about developing teachers to promote student competency. The program is flexible in terms of time and focuses on practice with PCL. The objective is to provide teachers with knowledge, understanding according to the specified content. The program structure has 5 units and takes 18 hours. There is content about active learning management, etc. The media used include training documents, etc., and there is an evaluation before and after the training.
             3. Using the program, it was found that teachers had higher knowledge and understanding after the training than before the training, with statistical significance at the .05 level. Teachers were overall satisfied at the highest level.
             4. Students had competency after learning with 5 steps of active learning management, overall at a high level.