The Lessons Learned for Improving Quality of Instructional Administration in Early Childhood Education Based on Waldorf Approach at Chiang Rai Panyanukul School

Abstract

The purposes of this study were: 1) to examine the state of instructional administration for early childhood education; 2) to investigate important factors affecting the quality of instructional administration for early childhood education; 3) to determine the future scenario developing the quality of instructional administration for early childhood education; 4) to propose the effective guidelines in developing the quality of instructional administration. The population was school administrators, teachers, and heads of academic affairs. The research instruments were interview, questionnaire investigating the satisfaction, content analysis for focus group discussion. The results showed that: 1. The state of instructional administration, in overall, was found at the very high level. The quality assurance system on instructional administration involved 5 aspects. And, the internal quality assurance on B.E. 2558 was found excellent at the score of 97.95 as there were research and development for improving instructional administration, teachers conducting classroom research, teachers performing self-development by consistently attending training, satisfaction of stakeholdersinvolving instructional administration, in overall, was found at the high level. 2.The important factors affecting the quality of instructional administration were sectioned into 2 categories. The promoting factors were man, money, management, materials, environment, networking, activities/projects, personnel development, classroom research, procedure, etc. The depromoting factors were personnel, frequent change of teachers, over workload, administration lacking consistent improvement, networking, low participation of parents, etc. 3. The future scenario for the instructional administration of early childhood education involved 4 aspects including quality, satisfaction of stakeholders, internal procedure, learning and management. These could lead to the expected outcome, that is, the effective instructional administration of early childhood education based on Waldor Approach. 4. The guidelines improving the quality of instructional administration for early childhood education at Chiang Rai Panyanukul School to serve the 2017-2018 school vision in providing educational opportunity, developing human potential based on natural approach, attaining desirable characteristics, acquiring physical, mental, emotional, social,and cognitive development based on standards, self-dependence, holding readiness for higher education. This involved 4. development perspectives, that is, quality, satisfaction, internal procedure, learning and development. And, this required 4 strategies. Strategy 1: Develop learners to become active and qualified learning individual. Strategy 2: Develop teachers to reach their maximum quality and potential. Strategy 3:Develop innovative media for instructional administration based on Waldor Approach. Strategy 4: Develop cooperative network between school, teachers, parents, and community.