Handmade book Activity Approach to Enhance Teacher Spirituality

Abstract

The objectives of the research entitled “Handmade Book Activity Approach to Enhance Teacher Spirituality” were to: 1) create handmade book activity and evaluate its appropriateness to enhance teacher spirituality; 2) study results of application of handmade book activity; and 3) study results of performance of Good Teacher in Heart and response of the activity. The population comprised of 205 cases from 7 classes of first year student, the Faculty of Industrial Education and Technology, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, who registered for IED111 Philosophy of Vocational Education and Teaching Professionalism, the second semester of 2017 academic year. The simple random method was applied for selecting the sample group. The sample group consisted of 28 cases of students or one class which is from B class of the Department of Electrical Technology Education. The population of Good Teacher in Heart was selected by students as 1:1 so the population was equal to 205 cases. Subsequently, the 50 cases of sample group were selected from the list of Good Teacher in Heart with evaluation results ranking from the first to the fifth. The research tools constituted of evaluation form of learning plan appropriateness, evaluation form of teacher spirituality and an evaluation form of good teacher performance.
The results proved that: 1) the learning activity plan was prepared for 5 weeks totaling 10 hours and the evaluation result was at the most appropriate level ( = 4.97 S.D. = 0.05) ; 2) the students participating the Handmade Book Activity had teacher spirituality better than before the activity participation; and 3) the overall of good teacher performance in accordance with Code of Ethics of Teaching Profession was at high level ( = 4.30 S.D. = 0.29) and the Handmade Book Activity was good activity which should be consistently implemented.