The Guideline on the Development of Learning Organization of Schools Under the Office of the Secondary Educational Service Area 1

Abstract

          This survey research aims to 1) study the level of the Learning Organization of Schools,   2) compare the level of the Learning Organization of Schools classified by school sizes and  3) study the guideline on the development of Learning Organization of Schools. The population used in this research was 67 schools under the Office of the Secondary Educational Service Area 1. Data distributors were 390 government teachers collected through Stratified Random Sampling method specified by school sizes and 5 school directors. The tools of this research were 5–points Likert scale questionnaire with reliability of 0.979 and the interview form. Data was analyzed and processed by statistical package program. Statistical processes used for data analysis were Mean, Standard Deviation, T-test, Analysis of Variance and Content Analysis.

          The results of this research were found that 1) the overall and individual aspects of Learning Organization of schools were at high level, the first one was thinking model followed by systems thinking and learning for personal capability enhancement respectively, 2) the government teachers in different school sizes had different opinions about Learning Organization of schools in overall aspects on learning for personal capability enhancement, thinking model and team learning with the statistical significance value at 0.05 in which teachers in extra-large school sizes had the opinions on Learning Organization of schools at higher level than teachers in medium and small school sizes and 3) the guideline on the development of Learning Organization of schools was the development of learning to increase the potential of government teachers and educational personnel and the development of the school management system to the Learning Organization. This research brought about the knowledge on the characteristics of thinking model, systems thinking and learning for personal capacity enhancement as the key factors of being Learning Organization which would lead to the sustainable development of schools in the future.