The Model for Creating Online Teacher Professional Community to Enhance Active Learning Management Ability of Early Childhood Teachers รูปแบบการสร้างชุมชนวิชาชีพออนไลน์เพื่อหนุนเสริมความสามารถ ในการจัดการเรียนรู้เชิงรุกสำหรับครูปฐมวัย

Abstract

This research was to develop a model for creating online teacher professional community  to enhance  active learning management ability of early childhood teachers  : OTPC-AL Model.   The objectives were (1) to create a OTPC-AL Model, (2) to study the results of the experiment using the OTPC-AL Model, and (3) to create guidelines for implementing OTPC-AL Model.  The information was provided by 15 experts with certain qualifications and the sample group was 15 early childhood teachers under the Office of the Basic Education Commission who volunteered to use the model with the School administrators' recommendation.  The research instruments consisted of (1) OTPC-AL Model (2) an activity plan for activities according to the model for creating an online professional community (researchers), (3) an online professional community for early childhood teachers, (4) a form to document the effects of planning efforts as monitoring early childhood teachers' participation in an online professional community, (5) a plan for organizing active learning activities for early childhood teachers, and (6) a prototype of a policy proposal to establish an OTPC-AL Model. Qualitative data analysis using content analysis found that (1) this model is called “A-P-E-S-2C Model”.  (2) The strategy can greatly support early childhood instructors' active learning management, according to research employing qualitative methodologies. (3) There are seven primary directions in which this concept can be expanded and applied.