Strategies for Enhancing Learning Management Competency of the Teachers in the Bilingual Schools in the Southern Andaman Provincial Cluster

Abstract

          The research aimed to create strategies for enhancing learning management competency of the teachers in the bilingual schools in the Southern Andaman Provincial Cluster. The research was conducted in 4 procedures. 1) The first procedure was to study strategies for enhancing learning management competency of the teachers in the bilingual schools that had the learning management projects based on the English program/mini English program curriculum or the curriculum of the bilingual schools of the Ministry of Education. The samples were 24 participants selected by purposive sampling from school directors, school deputy directors, English program providers, and teachers teaching in the bilingual schools from 6 schools. 2) The second procedure was to create the contents of the strategies by collecting data from 12 educational experts. 3) The third procedure was to create the strategies from 104 participants selected by purposive sampling from school directors, school deputy directors, heads of the English programs of the bilingual schools from 26 schools in the Southern Andaman Provincial Cluster. 4) The fourth procedure was to examine and evaluate the strategies by 5 educational experts/specialists from all of the organizations: government and/or private organizations and 2 experts/specialists from the school administrators of the bilingual schools. The research instruments were a questionnaire and a strategy evaluation form used to evaluate the appropriateness, possibility, congruity, and benefit by the connoisseurship. The statistics used to analyze data were percentage, mean, standard deviation, and content analysis.

                The research findings were found as follows.

1. The findings of the creation of the strategies for enhancing learning management competency of the teachers in the bilingual schools showed that the strategies for enhancing learning management competency of the teachers in the bilingual schools consisted of 9 strategies: 1) developing the students to be learning people, 2) developing curriculum and teaching focusing on the principles of Thailand 4.0, 3) creating leadership for school administrators, 4) administrating by using participatory networks, 5) using systematic administration to design learning management, 6) managing administrative structures, 7) developing teachers to Thailand 4.0, 8) using technology media in teaching, and 9) encouraging students to be self-assistance. 

2. The findings of the strategy examination and evaluation for enhancing learning management competency of the teachers in the bilingual schools by the connoisseurship showed that all of the strategies were appropriate, possible, congruous, and beneficial.