Guidelines for The Promotion of Students' Life Skills of Welfares Schools Group 1 Under The Special Education Bureau

Abstract

This article aimed to 1) study the level of the promotion of students' life skills and
2) study the guidelines for the promotion of students' life skills of welfares schools, group 1, Bureau of Special education administration.  The research design is mixed research, using the Ministry of Education's concept of student life skills promotion as the research framework, research area were welfares schools, group 1, Bureau of Special education administration. The sample group were 184 school administrators and teachers, set sample size using Krejcie and Morgan tables at the confidence level of 95 percent selected by stratified random sampling, Classified by group of schools and 10 key informants in the focus group were obtained through purposive selection. There are 2 types of tools used in the research: 1) a 5-level rating scale questionnaire with content validity between 0.67-1.00 and reliability of 0.77 and 2) questions in focus group discussion. The statistics used in the data analysis were percentage, mean and standard deviation, Summarizing the group discussions used content analysis and then writing a descriptive narrative.

The findings were as follows: 1) The promotion of students' life skills of welfares schools, group 1, in each individual aspect at the highest level was ability to communicate, aspect at a high level, ranking in the order of mean from high to low as follows: ability to use life skills, followed by ability to use technology, ability to solve problems, and ability to think. 2) Guidelines for the promotion of students' life skills of welfares schools,  group 1, under the Bureau of Special education administration were as follows: 1) Communication ability, schools should promote a strong emphasis on communication, Train students in two-way communication skills, learning management together in both Thai and English. Promote correct and appropriate communication as a messenger and receiver of information. 2) Thinking abilities, schools must organize activities to encourage creativity among the majority of students. Design activities according to students' aptitudes so that they can design their own pieces, there are a variety of creative works, arrange activities to encourage students to think positively, use knowledge use careful thought.
3) Problem-solving ability, schools should promote the creation of thought processes and learning management processes to understand the social situations that arise in order. 4) Ability to use life skills, schools and teachers should encourage students to develop leadership skills, careful analysis and solving of various problems, resulting in learning of work skills applied to daily life. 5) Ability to use technology, schools should promote the learning management process, Schools should promote the learning management process. Emphasis is on skills in using technology to create products and sell products through social media.