Abstract

The purposes of this research are to compare the practice between working standard and personal working standard of teachers who are certified by attending professional teacher knowledge standard workshop held by the teachers’ council who are different in gender, age, ways of knowledge certified and teaching according to/not according to educational certificate background. The samples are 246 research participants certified by attending professional teacher knowledge standard workshop of the teacher’s council: Developmental division of the Faculty of Education, Mahasarakham University. Sampling operated by using Multi-Stage Random Sampling. Teachers’ data collection are self-evaluation and with school directors also as informers. Research instrument are piloted quality inspected questionnaire indicated by Item Total Correlation and Reliability of Cronbach. Data are analyzed by using X, s.d., t-test: independent samples, One way ANOVA, and multiple comparison of Scheffe. The research found that:

1) Overall, the female teachers who have been certified by attending professional teacher knowledge standard workshop of the teacher’s council follow teaching standard in the academic activities facets on professional teacher’s development and self-practice standard and ethic is higher than male teachers with statistically significant at the .05 level.

2) Teachers who with age differences follow the standard of being a good role model for the students. They work cooperatively with others in the community creatively. Personal practice standard about ethic to society is different with statistically significant at the .05 level.

3) Teachers who have been certified by attending professional teacher knowledge standard workshop of the teacher’s council foster on teacher professional development and immensely develop the students to their full potential more than transferring method with statistically significant at the .05 level.

4) Teachers who teach according to educational certificate background practice according to the standard professional teacher on designing learning activities with the students in mind. They thrive so as to make every opportunity to be for learning. They also have higher ethic than teachers who are not teaching according to their educational certificate background with statistically significant at the .05 level.

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