The Learning Experience Development Based on Psyco-Intellectual Model to Enhance Values in Early Childhood Children

Abstract

       The purposes of this study were 1) to study the need to promote desired values​​ in early childhood children of Ban Panusdongsawang Child Development Center, 2) to develop learning experience organizing based on Psycho–Intellectual Model promoting the values ​​of early childhood children as needed, 3) to find the efficiency of the learning experience model based on the Psycho–Intellectual Model promoting the values ​​of early childhood children and assess it against the 80/80 efficiency criteria, and 4) to study the effectiveness index of organizing learning experiences based on the concept of Psycho–Intellectual Model promoting the values ​​of early childhood children. The sample in this study comprised the administrator, teachers, educational personnel, the members of the child development center committee and parents of the children at Ban Panusdongsawang Child Development Center, under the Chanuwan Sub-district Administrative Organization, Phanomprai District, Roi Et Province, and the preschool children aged 3 to 4 who were learning in Kindergarten 2 in the second semester of the academic year 2015, under the Chanuwan Sub-district Administrative Organization, Phanomprai District, Roi Et Province, obtained through the purposive sampling technique. The tools used in the research were 1) a need questionnaire to promote the values​​ of early childhood children, 2) the plans of organizing learning experiences based on the concept of mental intelligence, and 3) a test on values. Data were analyzed by using percentage, the mean and standard deviation.           

 The findings of the study were as follow:              

       1. Regarding the results of the study on the need to promote desired values​​ in early childhood children of Ban Panusdongsawang Child Development Center, it was found that the majority of the respondents wanted the values of the early childhood children, on the aspect of yearning to know, disciplines and being economical, be promoted. The need was rated at a highest level.              

      2. The development of organizing learning experiences based on the concept of the Psycho–Intellectual Model to promote the values ​​of early childhood children, had 3 steps. Step 1: introduction to the lesson; step 2: organizing learning activities which comprised 5 learning activities: 1) the learner’s hands-on activity and thinking (A), 2) the learner expresses herself through the hands-on activity (B), 3) the learner learns cooperatively (C), 4) the Learner learns by discovery (D), 5) the learner is advanced in learning (P), step 3: making the conclusion.            

      3. The efficiency of organizing learning experiences based on mental intelligence to promote the values ​​of early childhood children was 89.33/82.33.                 

     4. The effectiveness index of organizing learning experiences based on mental intelligence to promote the values ​​of early childhood children was 0.7414. This indicates that the early childhood children had a 74-percent progress after learning.