Strategies Of Teacher Preparation Development For Educational Institution In Eastern Economic Corridor Of Thailand

Abstract

The objectives of this research were to study; (1) the role of the educational institution in Eastern Economic Corridor in teacher development, and (2) propose strategy for teacher development of the educational institution in Eastern Economic Corridor of Thailand. This study used qualitative research design. In-depth interview and focus group discussion were used for data collection. The 48 key informants were selected based on a purposive sampling. The results showed that; (1) the role of the educational institution for teacher development in Eastern Economic Corridor will consider the implementation of the process in 4 processes consisting of admission process as a teacher, teacher production process, teacher development process, and follow-up process, (2) strategies for teacher development of the educational institution in Eastern Economic Corridor consisted of 4 main strategies, namely strategy; 1
establish a cooperation center between the teacher production institute in Eastern Economic Corridor to train foreign languages and technology respond to lifelong learning, strategy 2; collaboration between the teacher production institute in Eastern Economic Corridor to grant the right to study at a network university, strategy 3; organize academic services as an educational community to increase skills and learning according to requirements of the community for students and teachers in the institute of teacher production, strategy 4 develop teacher production in Eastern Economic Corridor to have educational leadership for development in accordance with learning to change.