5. Suggestions
5.1 For policy makers
5.1.1 As findings from this study has succinctly proved that the training ofteachers in the learning management
for develop analytical thinking has been successful in helping the teachers to develop their analytical thinking and to
manage learning for analytical thinking purpose, the responsibility is now rest with policy makers to decide to fund
training workshops to upgrade the teachers’ learning management ability so that they’ll be able to upgrade their
students’ analytical thinking as well. The teachers’ primary authorities such as Ministry of Education, the Basic
Education Board, provincial offices of education services or even the school themselves should embark on a training
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workshop such as this so that their teachers would be ableto develop themselves in analytical thinking and to learn
how to manage learning emphasizes on analytical thinking for their students which, in a direct way, would allow
them to work in accordance with the conditions as stipulated in The National Education Act 1999 and Amendments
2002 (Second National Education Act). Both Acts stipulate that learning management should be geared for
the students to practice analytical thinking, to learn the process of thinking, to learn how to manage things, to cope
with challenging situations and to apply what they have learned to daily life.
5.1.2 Following the training on learning management to develop students’ analytical thinking of teachers, the
primary authority offices should do a follow-up inspection of their performance in regard to their students’
analytical thinking. The offices can also help the teachers to sustain what they have learned from their training and
to continuously enlarge their learning management through regular supervision activities in order to learn about the
problems they encounter in the implementation of the learning management to develop students’ analytical thinking
and to help solve the problems.
5.2 For the application of the teacher training curriculum
5.2.1 In order to make the application of this training curriculum effective, persons in charge of the task should
be make a thorough study of the 6 components of the curriculum, i.e. the rationale, curriculum aims, content
structure, training activities management, measurement and evaluation, and passing criterion for the training.
Handbooks for trainers and trainees should also be examined so that they can conceive a full scope of the training
and proceed to act accordingly.
5.2.2 In training teachers for the development of learning management to develop students’ analytical thinking,
the training activities should include all the 3 significant parts of 1) to provide the teachers with basic knowledge
about analytical thinking, 2) to practice analytical thinking process and 3) to learn how to manage learning for the
development of analytical thinking. As it is evident that before a teacher can teach his/her students to learn
analytical thinking, the teachers themselves must possess a clear knowledge about the process of analytical thinking
and have experienced analytical thinking before (Baldwin, 1984; NCSS, 1989).
Acknowledgement
This study was given a financial support from Khon Kaen University’s Project for the Development of New
Researchers for Year 2009. The present researcher wishes to express his gratitude for the generous support that
resulted in the successful completion of the study.