Professional Learning Communities in Primary School Under the Bureau of Special Education Administration, Chiang Mai Province
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The study aimed to develop the process of building a professional learning community in the target primary school and to provide the recommendations related to its difficulties and problems encountered. The 40 key informants were the teachers and administrators in the first semester of school year 2017-2018. The research instruments were questionnaires, interview, participant observation and group discussions. The results revealed that the target school had great success in five activities of building a professional learning community. In response to the problems encountered and the recommendations provided, implicit processes should be expedited; the continuous process of providing more knowledge and understandings of building professional learning community should be implemented in accordance with individual differences of the students. Furthermore, there should be a mutual exchange of ideas and opinions over the nature of each discipline and job analysis. This process should be integrated with all the activities in class and subjects byactive learning and emphasize its design based on specific contexts.
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