Development of a Training Curriculum in Stem Education Learning Management for Teachers at an Opportunity Expansion School under the Office of Sakon Nakhon Elementary Education Area 1

Abstract

The purposes of this research were : 1) to develop a training curriculum in STEM education learning management for teachers at an opportunity expansion school under the Office of Sakon Nakhon Elementary Education Area 1 and 2) to study the efficiency of the training curriculum in STEM education learning management. The conduction of this research was divided into two phases. Phase 1 was the development of a training curriculum . Phase 2 was the evaluation and improvement of the training curriculum. The target group consisted of 30 teachers at Banmuangwittaya School, Kusuman district, Sakon Nakhon province in the second semester of academic year 2018. These participants were selected by purposive sampling. The statistics used for data analysis were percentage, mean, standard deviation and t-test for dependent samples. The findings were as follows: The training curriculum in STEM education learning management for teachers at the opportunity expansion school consisted of five components: 1) the rationale, 2) objectives of the training curriculum, 3) content structure, 4) training activities and 5) measurement and evaluation. The efficiency of the training curriculum in STEM education learning management for teachers at the opportunity expansion school revealed that 1) knowledge and understanding in STEM education learning management of the teachers after the training was higher than before the training with statistically significant difference at .01 level, 2) skills of teachers in practicing STEM education learning management were at a very good level, and 3) teachers’ satisfaction toward the training curriculum was at the highest level.