Developing Teachers to Enhance Project Management Skills for Students

Abstract

This study is an operation within the research project of “Teachers’ Development to Enhance Their Project Management Skills for Students,” which is also one of the projects in the research plan or research project series regarding 21st-century skills. This project arose from an awareness of the opportunities from the knowledge-based society, as well as from the present digital society, and has processed different views related to project management, which have been published globally via the internet by applying the Research and Development Methodology so that an educational innovation could be created in accordance with the concept of “Knowledge and Action are power.” The aim was to empower the teachers’ learning first and then to have them apply their learning outcomes to develop their students afterwards. Furthermore, it was believed that so long as teachers are stimulated and encouraged to apply their learning outcomes, then the teaching would become more efficient. As a result, an educational innovation called an “Online Self – Training Program for Developing Teachers to Enhance the Project Management Skills of Students” has been created. It was tested by the stakeholder teachers, who used the program, and was also tested through the process of experimental field research. Thus, it was determined to be efficient as it was hypothesized by showing the possibility of disseminating the program for the useful purpose of developing the teachers and then the students in the educational opportunity extension schools under the Office of the Basic Education Commission of the Ministry of Education, which is also the target population to whom the research results will be disseminated.