Abstract of Dr. Pratin Leanchumroon
Education management in Thai Vocational Education in the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic
Dr. Pratin Leanchumroon
The 4th Princess Maha Chakri Award Teacher, 2021
Phang-nga Technical College, 326 Patchakasem Rd., Taichang, Muang, Phang-nga, Thailand, 82000
Abstract
This article exhibits the processes of Vocational Education management in Thailand during COVID-19 pandemic situation as the new ways of Vocational Education management that emphasizes both the academic knowledge and professional skills in the Active Learning Model, which conveys to Competency-Based Learning management with the flexible learning model based on the situation through digital technology to ensure that the management of Vocational Education encounters the regulative curriculum standards.
According to the interview Chief Executives, the Office of the Vocational Education Commission (OVEC), Principals, Teachers, and Vocational Education personnel, the researchers examined by collecting data to analyze with Context Analysis, which divided into 5 issues as follows: 1) The Contributing factor, OVEC has implemented three contributions, the preparation of learners and educational institutions, supporting the expenses to alleviate the burden of parents, and preparation of learning management manuals in COVID-19 pandemic situations. 2) The Developing Learners factor, to develop the learners during school closure in COVID-19 situation and avoid loss of productivity & learning curves by emphasize on linguistic communications and digital literacy skills likewise the development for learners through the website (www.ครูพร้อม.com) 3) The Developing Teachers, especially in technology by encouraging teachers to create online units/lessons and develops the satellite remote lessons (DLTV) for a large group of students, meanwhile, teachers are eligible for developing and learning skills. 4) The Teaching and Learning Management factor, to determine in the various learning management for distributing to all teachers with appropriate contents, and situations in each area. According to learning management, which require teachers to reanalyze the contents that must know and should know. For the contents that must know, needs to remote the teaching through Technology systems or Online platforms. The contents that should know, prepare, or provide teaching materials for self-learning to student. For practical training part, divides the students into small groups for practice and training by the Block Course method, provides a Live demonstration of teaching or provide online virtual training. The part of professional competency training in the workplace, which called “Dual Vocational Education”, the educational institutions must coordinate with 3 parties: the workplace, parents, and students. In case one of those did not accept, the educational institutions must prepare a place to simulate an internship such as inside educational institution or etc. The teacher will evaluate the subject and profession assessment through online channels. For the practical training part, there must be an appropriate process or write the sequences of procedures instead. 5) The extracurricular activities, to organize the activities that improving the quality’s life of learners and expand to family, and community whereat the teacher will evaluate the results according to the activities outcomes for students.
Keywords:COVID-19 situation, Online Learning management, Vocational Education (Thailand)
