Assessing the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration Primary School Students’ Sustainability Leadership Competencies (SSLC)

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The objective of this research aims to enable Thai education to achieve the global vision, SDG 4 Goal 4.7, by 2030 it is necessary to ensure that all Thai students have the knowledge and skills necessary to promote sustainable development and a more pronounced sustainable lifestyle. It is, therefore, necessary to first identify the current level of the students’ sustainability competencies. This study has two research objectives: (1) to study the conceptual framework of Students’ Sustainability Leadership Competencies (SSLC) and (2) to study the SSLC level of Grades 1-3 students under the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA). 431 BMA primary schools as the population and 723 Informants were Grade 1-3 teachers and school leaders (Principal, Vice-principal, and Heads of the learning subject groups) from 205 sample schools. The research instrument was the Grade 3 SSLC online assessment form.

The result of the research; the first research objective, turned out the most appropriate SSLC conceptual framework, comprising 5 essential competencies: (1) Sustainability literacy; (2) Proactive values; (3) Systems thinking; (4) External collaboration; (5) Social innovation,       15 general competencies, 33 enabling competencies, and 33 success descriptors, to develop 33 questions of the Grade 3 SSLC online assessment form, using 4 descriptive ratings: (1) students cannot do this yet; (2) students can do some; (3) students can do well; (4) students can teach others. The second research objective, found that the overall BMA Grades 1-3 SSLC level according to the perception of Grade 1-3 teachers and school leaders was in the "student can do some" level, but the arithmetic mean in each Grade was different. Grade 3 students had the highest mean while Grade 1 students had the lowest. This study highlights the need to transform academic management at both the macro and micro levels, in terms of educational policy, curriculum & textbooks, teaching and learning, and assessment for better empowering students to be sustainability leaders who lead the ways to achieve SDGs.