Role of School Administrators for Enhaning Professional Learning Community of Muang Bang Pu Schools Group under Samut Prakan Primary Educational Service Area Office 1

Abstract

          The objectives of this research project are 1) to study on the levels of roles played by school administrators in enhaning professional learning community; 2) to compare opinions toward roles played by role of school administrators eole for enhaning professional learning community, sorted by genders, educational backgrounds, work experiences and sizes of schools; and. The samples are teachers of 6 schools in Muang Bang Pu schools group under Samut Prakan primary education service area office 1, for 181 samples in total, selected with the technique of stratification by school sizes. The used tool is a questionnaire with the index of item-objective congruence (IOC) for the entire questionnaire of .96 and IOC of each of all items ranking between .67-1.00 and the reliability value of .96. Data are processed with frequency distribution for percentages, means and standard deviations, and are analyzed with one way ANOVA and are analyzed in pairs with LSD.

The findings from the research are as follows. 1) The roles played by school administrators in enhaning professional learning  community, considered as overall role or roles in separated categories are in high level. The category that has the highest mean is the enhaning of the culture of PLC organization, followed by the categories of the policies, directions and visions of school, the building of the ambience of cooperation at school, the vocational learning and development, the enhaning of joint charisma, and the support and development for teachers and personnel. 2) Teachers with differences in terms of genders and work experiences have different opinions with statistical significance level of .05 whilst teachers with differences in terms of educational and sizes of schools does not show different opinions.