Guidelines for Developing and Promoting Professional Learning Communities of Highland Schools in Remote Areas Under Tak Primary Educational Service Area Office

Abstract

            The purposes of this research were to study the conditions, the problems and the Guidelines for Developing and Promoting Professional Learning Communities of Highland Schools in Remote Areas Under Tak Primary Educational Service Area Office. The samples consisted of 320 educators who were 66 school administrators and 254 teachers. The respondents consisted of 17 experts. The research instruments were a questionnaire and an interview. The data were analyzed using frequency distribution, percentage, mean and standard deviation.
               The results revealed that (1) In general, the conditions of promoting a professional learning community were at the high level. The highest mean were collaborative support and leadership.  The problems of promoting a professional learning community were found that the schools did not appoint the committee for promoting a professional learning community (PLC). (2) The guidelines for promoting a professional learning community of schools in the highland area were as follows: 1) the schools should set a meeting for organizational structure setting and appoint the committee for promoting a professional learning community of schools. 2) the schools should encourage teachers to create the innovation for solving instructional problems. 3) the administrators and teachers set Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for innovation development. 4) the school announced teachers’ performance and tasks and also assigned teachers’ jobs. and 5) the administrators should support teachers for vocational learning community, learning exchange and cooperate my innovation development for solving instructional problems.