» KKU Smart Learning aims to lead Thai education to meet PISA standard within 3 years (1795 Views)

On April 18, 2017, Khon Kaen University led by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kittichai Trairatanasirichai, KKU President, signed an MOU with Office of Secondary Education Service Area 24 (Kalasin), Office of Secondary Education Service Area 25 (Khon Kaen), Office of Secondary Education Service Area 26 (Mahasarakham), and Office of Secondary Education Service Area 27 (Roi-et), under the Project:  “Development of Secondary School Students’ Performance with KKU Smart Learning.” Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kulthida Tuamsuk, Dean of Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences is the head of this project. The plan is to achieve the aim within 3 years. The target group consists of over 1200 teachers and over 25,000 students. It is believed that the project will be successful and lead Thai education standards to be accepted worldwide.

KKU Smart Learning innovation is a tool to develop advanced learning competence of secondary school students in 45 schools in the Northeast so that the students have the competence enabling them to compete with international students. The emphasized subjects are Mathematics, Sciences, English and the 21^st Century skills. At the same time, the project also aims at developing teaching and learning potentials of teachers so that they are able to design flexible learning activities that match classrooms’ context as well as to use modern technologies. A cooperative working model will be developed for the participatory work of university professors and researchers, educational supervisors, school principals, and teachers who run classrooms. The aim is towards the highest outcomes in Thai education development and PISA standard level 2 within a period of 3 years.

Professor Dr. Kanok Wongtra-ngan, the project advisor, gave a talk on to roles and duties of teachers and school principals in upgrading Thai education quality standards for the future of the nation. In the talk, Professor Kanok mentioned that Thailand is facing problems related to education quality. In this regard, the transfer of knowledge from the teacher to the learner is an important problem, because teaching does not lead to students’ learning, nor can it encourage eagerness to learn something extra from the content. Students are not able to construct a learning tool by themselves. Teachers and the school principal need to modify their roles, responsibilities, teaching methods, content and the thinking approach for managing classrooms.

 

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