Teacher Development Model inLearning Management that Promotes Creative Thinking Skills of Secondary Schools in Surat Thani Province under The Secondary Educational Service Area Office, Surat Thani and Chumphon

Abstract

The purpose of this research are to study the problem conditions of teacher development and learning management that promotes creative thinking skills; 2) to develop a model of teacher development in learning management that promotes creative thinking skills; and 3) to evaluate the use of the teacher development model in learning management that promotes creative thinking skills of secondary schools in Surat Thani province under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office, Surat Thani and Chumphon. The research and development. The sample group consisted of 335 administrators and teachers using the table of Krejecie & Morgan. The target group consisted of 16 teachers using the table of Purposive Sampling. The tool is used as a problem condition questionnaire, a suitability assessment, cognitive tests, and satisfaction questionnaires. The data were analyzed by using basic statistics such as mean standard deviation and t-test.
The research results revealed as the following:
1. The problem conditions of teacher development and learning management that promotes creative thinking skills overall were at high levels, sorted in the following order were: The teacher development today focuses on lecturing rather than putting teachers into practice. The development of teacher at present emphasizes on the operation development of structures rather than the development of learning management or follow-up supervision to monitor teacher development in learning management that promotes creative thinking skills.
2. The results of the development of a learning management model that promotes creative thinking skills showed that the model consists of principles, objectives, contents, development methods, and measurement and evaluation. The overall of suitability assessment results were at the highest levels.
3. The results of the evaluation of using the teacher development model in learning management that promote creative thinking skills indicated that the scores on understanding before and after the trainings were statistically significant difference at the .01 level. In addition, satisfaction in using the teacher development model in learning management that promotes creative thinking skills was on the whole at the highest level.