Guidelines for the Academic Administration of Small Schools under the Office of Nakhon Sawan Primary Educational Service Area 2

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to study problems and examine guidelines for the academic administration in small schools under Nakhon Sawan Primary Education Service Area Office 2. The research was conducted in 2 steps as follows: 1) the study problems of the academic administration in small schools. The sample group was taken from 201 school administrators and teachers. The instrument was a 5-rating scale questionnaire with a reliability coefficient of 0.83. The statistics employed were frequency, percentage, mean, and standard deviation, and 2) the guideline examination of the academic administration in small schools. The focus group conversation was processed using content analysis. The research findings were as follows: the problems of the academic administration in small schools, overall was at the medium level with mean of 2.98, the most problem was the research for the education quality development, but the least problem was the school curriculum development. The guidelines for  the academic administration in small schools were as follows:the school curriculum development, promote teachers’ knowledge, and stakeholders should participate in school curriculum development, which is relevant to the context, the learning process development, teachers should provide professional learning community groups in schools, and do the student-centered learning lesson plans, the learning measurement and assessment, and grade transferring, support teachers to use various  learning measurement and assessment instruments, the research for the education quality development, the teachers’ training  on classroom research, and conduct research exchange stages for teachers, the material and innovation development and educational technology media, provide teachers’ training on the educational technology development. Teachers create and choose modern proper educational technology media for the context, the internal supervision in schools, the planning for the internal supervision in schools. The friendly supervision should be done in various ways continuously. Besides, the teaching technique guidance of schools in groups should be cooperated, and the school internal insurance, give knowledge about the school internal insurance for teachers and stakeholders. Furthermore, the committee appointment, procession, supervision, and examination should be done constantly, and take the assessment results to apply in schools efficiently.