Mentor and University Supervisor Development on Coaching and Professional Learning Community Enrichment

Abstract

The objectives of this research were to 1) study the information on building understanding and cooperation with administrators/student teacher supervisors, 2) study the information on mentor and university supervisor development on coaching and professional learning community (PLC) enrichment, and 3) study supporting/promoting guidelines to generate a professional learning community for university supervisors, mentors, and student teachers in the Faculty of Education, Pibulsongkram Rajabhat University. The informants were selected by a purposive sampling and they included 12 school administrators and school personnel, 50 mentors, and 50 student teachers who were the 5^th year students in the 1^st semester in academic year 2017. The results were found that 1) the school administrators from each school had experiences and understanding about coaching enrichment and they realized and were ready to cooperate and develop mentors, 2) mentor and university development on coaching and PLC whose targets were determined together was focused on developing learners on cognitive domain, affective domain, and psychomotor domain by applying contemplative education process, 3) developing a professional learning community could be done by having the school administrators be a leader on creating visions of learning and professional development, creating a caring community and a structure to support communities affecting being a professional learning community and an effective teamwork.