Title : A survey of English Teachers’ opinions towards the criteria of
becoming Master Teacher and a survey of English Teachers’ needs
to be
promoted as Master Teacher under the Phitsanulok Educational
Service Areas
Author : Pongsuda Phucharoen, Duangjit Pongsichompu,
Suwicha Wattanabud, Metta Thaikham, Allan Kongthai,
and Duangkamol Waikula
Adviser : Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kriengsakdi Sayananondh
Type of degree: Independent study (M.A. English), Naresuan University, 2004
The purposes of this study were two-fold: (1) to survey the English Teachers’ opinions towards the criteria of becoming Master Teacher, (2) to survey the English Teachers’ needs to be promoted as Master Teacher under the Phitsanulok Educational Service Areas.
Methodology
The subjects comprised 344 English Teachers in the schools under the Phitsanulok Educational Service Areas who were selected by means of stratified and simple random sampling. The instrument used to collect the data was a questionnaire divided into two sections: 1) five-level rating scale question items asking the English Teachers’ opinions towards the criteria of becoming Master Teacher 2) the questions asking the English Teachers’ needs to be promoted as Master Teacher under the Phitsanulok Educational Service Areas. The data was analyzed by using percentage, frequency, mean and standard deviation.
Findings
1) The English Teachers’ opinions under the Phitsanulok Educational Service Areas strongly agreed with the criteria of becoming Master Teacher. The order of high agreements was the degree of teachers’ self-development and how they supported their network teachers, their teaching by focusing on Learner-Centered and being accepted as good and professional teachers.
2) The English Teachers highly need to develop themselves to be Master Teacher. The most important purpose of being Master Teacher focuses on the students’ development.
3) The English Teachers’ need was to develop themselves under Master Teacher Program. The percentage of the need of becoming Master Teacher was 95.64 from 344 teachers and the need to maintain this program was 93.90 out of 344 teachers.
4) The English Teachers’ opinions and suggestions from open-ended questions informed that the assessment and evaluation should concentrate on face validity more than papers or reports by the consideration of the development of teaching method and the material creation.
The finding that is really interesting is the teachers’ opinion focusing on the students’ development directly that is worth than anything else. Being a teacher, the production is the students, if the teachers concentrate on their teaching methods and material creation, then the students should get the most benefits out of these personnel. The more the students learn and gain the progressive knowledge, the more prosperously the nation will be.
This kind of survey may be done in some other related topics in any provinces throughout Thailand. It concerns the important profession who should be responsible for leading our country to arise in the immediate future as a nation of wealth, stability and dignity, capable of competing with others in this age of globalization. So, to survey more variables may lead to complete suggestions to concerned organization.