THE DEVELOPMENT OF TRAINING CURRICULUM TO ENHANCE THE LEARNING MANAGEMENT OF THE PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS TO IMPROVE THE ANALYTICAL THINKING ABILITY OF ELEMENTARY STUDENTS

Abstract

The purposes of this research were 1) to develop the training curriculum to enhance the learning management of the pre-sevice teachers to improve the analytical thinking ability of elementary students 2) to study the result of using the training curriculum to enhance the learning management of the pre-sevice teachers to improve the analytical thinking ability of elementary students as follows 2.1) The ability of learning management for pre-service teachers 2.2) The attitudes of pre-service teachers toward the training curriculum 2.3) The analytical thinking ability of elementary students. The samples in this research including 10 pre-service teachers, mentors of pre-service teachers who look after all the pre-service teachers and 100 elementary students, they were purposively selected. The research instruments comprised of; the training Curriculum , the test to assess the knowledge, learning management ability test for pre-service teachers, the analytical thinking ability test of elementary students and the attitude test towards the training Curriculum. The statistics used for data analysis were mean, standard deviation and t-test

               The study results were that : 1. The results of training curriculum of learning management ability for pre-service teachers to enhance analytical thinking ability of elementary students consisted of rationale, curriculum principles, curriculum objectives, curriculum structure, the sample group, training schedule, training activities, learning materials, assessment and evaluation. The result of training curriculum evaluation by an expert found in general of curriculum is the best in quality. 2.The results of using the training curriculum of learning management ability for pre-service teachers to enhance analytical thinking ability of elementary students including: 2.1) The learning management ability for pre-service teachers was at high level. 2.2) The attitudes of pre-service teachers toward the training curriculum was at high level 2.3) The analytical thinking ability of elementary students had higher score after learning than before learning at the significance of .05