Guidelines of Social Studies Teaching for Teachers in Thailand 4.0

Abstract

The guidelines for teachers in learning and teaching social studies in Thailand 4.0 need the learning and supporting students to be capable in terms of society, knowledge, skills, process, virtue, ethics, and values in the present day by applying various learning and teaching guidelines into social studies teaching. Usually, the nature of contents in social studies is various and includes other fields such as religion, morality, ethics, civics, economics, geography, and history.

Because of the number of enormous contents in social studies department, it persuades the most teachers emphasize on classroom lectures without learning activities outside the classroom and makes them unskillful in teaching contents. This is not matched with the social studies teachers’ purposes and results in the non-achievement of the purpose of learning and teaching management. The learning and teaching management in the 21^st century need to be changed from the old learning to the new one which emphasizes on the learner-centered approach in order to develop skills and attitudes; thinking skill, problem-solving skill, cooperative skill, positive attitude, innovation, creativity, and motivation skill. Moreover, the learning and teaching management in the 21^st century is aware of learning environment. The classroom size will enlarge to be a huge community whereas the learning from textbooks will be only a part of this.

Knowledge is not the memorization of facts or number, but the occurrence from research and practice by associating knowledge and existing experiences. the skills and relevant contents will be necessary to the evaluation which affects the implementation. This is consistent with Phitchaya Deemee and Aumporn Lincharoen, 2017 (abstract). A Development Approach for Assessment Learning and Innovation Skills Using Assessment of Learners Method in 21st Century; there are three aspects, namely the creation and innovation, the investigation and the problem solution, and the communication and cooperation

The factors, for which are necessary to the development of teaching and learning social studies in order to develop the consistency with Thai Qualification Framework for Higher Education in term of knowledge an to understand the learning to implementation, are as followed; the presentation of information, the analyzation, the classification of the facts based on theory, including the processes of teaching social studies.