Enhancing the Future Skill Development of Learners through The FIRST Module Based on Labor Market Demands
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This paper aims to provide the guidance to the educational institution and the organization for understanding disruptive external factor changing that impact toward shifting job landscape and skillset of needed people in workplace. This paper depicts the module regarding on the 21st century skill, core future skill, and how importance of generic skill, including life skill that affected from the contextual environment in learning. These issues have strongly influenced toward the learners’ capability and competency in performance. Reskill and upskill are the solution(s) for existing human development that replaces new hiring. The FIRST framework is the tool for cultivating via all 5 steps are focusing on learner, integrating the positive group, reviewing activity, sequence of activity, and transforming into action respectively. Alternatively, after graduated, it would have 2 choices generally; entrepreneur and employee in organization. FIRST module with 5 steps in teaching for ready to be an entrepreneur and FIRST module with 5 steps with ready to work for employability. Each learners’ objective has different approach, direction, details and activities through FIRST framework either entrepreneurial entrepreneurship with extra re – up skill training or students with special course(s) in learning. Herewith, self - lifelong learning consciousness should be fundamental cultivated for all in every level of teaching.
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1. กองบรรณาธิการสงวนสิทธิ์ในการพิจารณาและตัดสินการตีพิมพ์บทความในวารสาร
2. บทความทุกเรื่องจะได้รับการตรวจสอบทางวิชาการโดยผู้ทรงคุณวุฒิ แต่ข้อความและเนื้อหาในบทความที่ตีพิมพ์เป็นความรับผิดชอบของผู้เขียนแต่เพียงผู้เดียว มิใช่ความคิดเห็นและความรับผิดชอบของมหาวิทยาลัยศรีปทุม
3. การคัดลอกอ้างอิงต้องดำเนินการตามการปฏิบัติในหมู่นักวิชาการโดยทั่วไป และสอดคล้องกับกฎหมายที่เกี่ยวข้อง
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