The vision of 21st century for professional development supports teachers, all professional development efforts must be as part of teaching and learning system that includes standard of skills, curriculum, instruction and assessments. Effective professional development efforts fundamental characteristics that are widely accepted, such as ensuring teacher how to integrate them the best into daily instruction, empowering collaboration among all co-workers, allowing teachers and principals to construct
Educational Reform in Thailand: The Fall of Foreign Language Curriculum “The global society is now increasingly complex, requiring educated citizens who can learn continuously, and who can work with diversity, locally and internationally. (Fullan, 1991)” This leads to the reason for educational reform. As the world changes, education need to be reform in order to respond the demand of competition in the world society. Many policies including educational reform are launched to improve people’s
What sparked off my interest in this topic was the moment I stepped into the toilets in the village. The toilets were simply made of cement and toilet squats with a door secured by a nail. What made me even more surprised was the absence of the basic flushing system we had in Singapore. It suddenly dawned on me that we took so many things in Singapore for granted and public health and sanitation was one of them. Hence, I decided to write about public health and sanitation. Public health is understood
Thailand has undergone major industrial and social transformation amid rapid economic growth and development for over half a century. It is now the second largest economy with the 4th highest income per capita in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. It has successfully shifted its economy from agriculture to export-oriented manufacturing, while integrating key production, particularly automobiles and electronics, into regional value chains. It has also been quite successful in attracting foreign
Now a day, Thailand has an assortment of social problems which occurring every time, such as drug and family problem. The top problem Thai people encountered is poverty. They face assorted problems such as being poor, no economic stability and on debt. Those problems cause to unemployment, population growth, low economic growth rate and lost income in the country when compared with amount of population. Also, poverty problem still being causes criminality, lack of educational opportunities, treatment
English has generally been taught as a foreign language in Thailand for at least two hundred years and the first official use of English in Thailand can be traced back to the reign of King Rama III (1788-1851). English language was significantly considered as a means of communication in dealing with the presence of British colonial influences (Baker and Phongpaichit 2005). Nearly a century later, English was finally announced as a mandatory subject in the national curriculum for Thai students; however
Thailand Education Previously, education in Thailand was only available for boys which were taught by Buddhist monks. Nowadays however, the Thai government provides education which consist of 4 levels; preschool, primary, secondary and higher education. Mostly public schools are administered by the Ministry of Education, Thailand, while private sector runs for profit and non-profit (by charitable organisations). Free basic education in Thailand extends from grades 1-12; 6 years of primary education
Thailand is an under-development country. The poor quality education, poverty, and inequality in the society can lead to many problems in the country. Most Thais tend to judge people by their social position, so people want to get rich and be accepted by the society. People find many ways to be wealthy, some work hard for money but some of them use short-cuts ways such as corruption. Corruption happens in most businesses, governments, the bureaucracy, and the justice system. Most people are corrupt
Impacts of bilingual education programs on EFL learners in Thailand The majority of people in the world use more than one language in the course of their daily lives, and it is estimated that most children today grow up with exposure to two or more languages. Due to many reasons, in the twenty-first century, knowing only one language is not enough for learners; additionally, bilingual education has been used as a common educational method all over the world; for instance, English is mainly used as
1967 in Bangkok, Thailand with other four founding countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and Singapore, and at the middle of 1999, the other five member countries, Vietnam, Myanmar, Laos, Indonesia, Cambodia and Brunei, have successfully agreed to join the community. Under the agreement among