THE The Development of a Professional Learning Community of Thai Language Teachers Mathayomsuksa 4 to Develop Critical Reading Abilities from Online Teaching Materials Using the 7E Learning Cycle Learning Model

Abstract

          This research aims to 1) Evaluate how the teachers’ knowledge pertaining to the development of a professional community advanced after they went through a process of establishing one. Changes in their understanding of the 7E learning cycle are also examined. 2) Study the teachers' teaching and learning management competencies in building a professional learning community, and their use of the 7E learning cycle pattern 3) To improve the Mathayomsuksa 4 students’ application of critical thinking in online media consumption through the use of the 7E learning cycle learning model to meet the criteria score of 75%, and 4) Study the opinions of the Thai language teachers concerning the building a professional learning community and learning model of the 7E learning cycle. The samples used in the research were Students and Teacher at Bangpakok Witthayakhom School. The research tools consisted of 1) Teacher knowledge measurement 2) Teacher observation checklist questionnaires 3) Teacher interview forms 4) Learning management plans 5) A critical reading achievement test of students and 6) Thai language teachers' opinion questionnaires. The data were analyzed using mean ( )  , standard deviation (SD), and a relative development score (Relative Gain Score). 
          The results of the research were as follows:
          1. Teachers' knowledge of building a Thai teacher professional learning community and the 7E learning cycle of the teachers of the two teachers had a relative development score after building a learning community of 100 is very high in both of them.
          2. The teaching ability of teachers in critically reading by using the 7E learning cycle learning model, all 3 of the 3 times had the mean ( ) of 16.11 or 80.56 percent of the level of skill which means very good.
          3. The results of the critical reading achievement test from online media using the 7E learning cycle learning model of the sample students in Mathayomsuksa 4 had a post-study average of 33.22 or 83.05 %, which is higher than the established 75 % threshold, statistically significant at the .01 level.
          4. The opinions of Thai language teachers towards building a learning community and learning management using the 7E learning cycle learning model are most agree ( ) = 4.92, S.D. = 0.10