A Development of Community Model in Professional Learning for Developing Virtue and Ethics of Students at Ban Duea Witthayakhom School

Abstract

The purposes of this research article were: 1) to study the conditions of professional learning community for developing virtues and ethics of students and the needs for self-development of educational personnel in terms of professional learning community situation; 2) to develop the model of professional learning community for developing virtues and ethics of students at Ban Duea Witthayakhom School. The samples used in this study are consisted of teachers, student representatives and guardians at the amount of 314 persons. Statistics used in this study consisted of frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation.

             The research results showed that: 1. For the conditions of professional learning community for developing virtues and ethics of students, educational personnel are provided with opportunities to joint in setting criteria to give scores and to know about evaluation criteria of learning community to develop virtues and ethics of students at the highest level. Personnel of Ban Duea Witthayakhom School had high needs for self-development in terms of activity performance for developing virtues and ethics, followed development of media, materials, instruments and learning sources that can be applied for developing virtues and ethics of students. 2. The development of professional learning model for developing virtues and ethics of students according to the concepts of power reinforcement evaluation consisted of 7 components: 1) creating co-value and standard; 2. Setting goals for learning and developing virtues and ethics of students; 3. Joining hand and force; 4. Providing suggestion and recommendations from experts; 5. Conversation for reflection; 6. Supporting condition; and 7. Learning and professional development.