Education has a great role and
importance in modern industrial societies. Thailand
is one of the countries in ASEAN community, it is very important to prepare
students in our country to work in different culture, technology and economic
environment. The purposes of preparing them are to share values, understanding
of socio-cultural systems, promote peace and political security.
The entire
global problem, whether it’s elimination of poverty, creation of peace,
environmental problems etc there are multiple solutions but the solutions
always include education component. Over the decades, education is about
preparing students for a specific career, lifelong values and discipline. But
to prepare the students for 21st century, we need more to meet the
expectation which requires abilities to cop up with difference cultures,
creativity, technology innovation, design skills and abilities to explore new
ideas. As we are now direct contact and competition with many countries around
the globe, we have to start focus on preparing our students from now.
How to meet these requirements?
- Prepare children for citizenship
- Teach cultural literacy
- Help students to become creative thinkers, technology innovation and design skills.
- Help student to be imaginative, communicative and multilingual
- Help students compete in a global marketplace
Teaching and
learning approaches should be base on Student-centered for active learning. Every teacher will have the skills to deliver 21st Century context with 21st Century tools and technology that guarantees students learning. Process-orientation should
be use to allow identifying the student’s process and strategies to solve
problems. Suitable and effective instructional Material should be use to
transfer accurate knowledge. Create a learning environment, which challenges
students; develop critical thinking and the process of knowledge construction.
For example, teachers can enhance the thinking skills of learners through doing
such activities as reasoning, decision making, reflecting, making inferences
and problem solving. Use technology to solve problem or to create fun in
learning. These types of activities encourage students to engage cognitively
and emotionally with the learning tasks. The latter activity, especially, can
be done by building an environment that allows students to examine complex
problems using a wide variety of resources, develop their own strategies for
solve these problems, and present and negotiate solutions to these problems in
a collaborative manner.
Technology plays very important role
in preparing the students. Technology helps to increase the teaching and
learning quality. These software materials can be slides and slide projector,
disks and movie projector, cassettes and tape recorder, program or software
regarding education, CD-DVD and computer etc. These materials should be
accurate and suitable for student to learn. The instructional materials will
help the students in learning and understanding, to transfer the accurate
content to student, to make teaching & learning and curriculum more
interesting and also to save time. Not only providing facilities regarding
technology is important but to teach students about technology is also very
important. For example: Teacher can let students create their own blog and
share their work, thoughts, comments etc with each other. This is the best way
of collaborating and active learning.
In my opinion, Thailand
