Assignment 1

             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 21^st 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 has improving in all contexts. As you can see the number of exchange students in increasing to provide cultural diversity and tablet is provided for better education in school. I would like to recommend all schools to focus on global needs and growth. Prepare students to compete with the world as children today is future of tomorrow.