Empowering Teachers' Learning to Enhance Students' Change Leadership Skills

Abstract

The experimental study, which was conducted under the research project entitled "Empowering Teachers' Learning to Enhance Students' Change Leadership Skills," is part of a series of research projects that focuses on 21st century skills that have been supported by the Doctoral Program in Educational Administration at the Isan campus of Mahamakut Buddhist University. This study emphasizes the utilization of opportunities that are being presented by knowledge-based and digital societies in the contemporary era. The development of Change Leadership Skills was approached by utilizing a Research & Development (R&D) methodology that employed various perspectives available on the internet. This approach aimed at creating innovative educational practices to enhance the teachers' learning and, subsequently, at empowering them to transfer their knowledge to develop their students. It is believed that if teachers acquire knowledge and are stimulated to put it into practice, it will create the power that can enhance the effectiveness of student development, which is in accordance with the concept of "Knowledge and Action are power." Based on this idea, a research and development (R&D) methodology was employed to incorporate various perspectives on developing Change Leadership Skills, which had been found on the internet, and incorporating them into an innovative educational program designed to strengthen teacher learning. The program called the "Online Self-Training Program to Empower Teachers' Learning to Enhance Students' Change Leadership Skills," was evaluated by teachers, who had been involved with the program and had found the program to be effective in accordance with the established criteria. Therefore, the program could be disseminated to benefit teacher development and the development of undergraduate students, who are majoring in teaching the Thai language, the English language, and Social Studies at the Faculty of Education at both the central and branch campuses Mahamakut Buddhist University. This target group can rapidly, efficiently, and effectively disseminate the research findings.