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Teachers and Changes: A School-based
Professional Development Programme for Thai Teachers
The results
The study showed that the professional development programme
(PDP) designed and implemented by the researcher with a group of
primary EFL teachers led to changes in their classroom practices to
meet the requirements of the curriculum mandated by the Thai
National Education Act of 1999. The PDP was devised and
carried out in accordance with principles established in other
professional development settings, and modified to fit the specific
context in which it was conducted. From the success of the
programme, as perceived by the teachers, their supervisors and
their students, the conclusion can be drawn that the main features
of a task-based learning methodology, combined with a coaching
model supporting implementation, can lead to teacher changing
to the communicative language teaching approach. A further
conclusion is that the principles followed in devising and conducting
the PDP that were drawn from the literature on professional
development in other settings can be applied to the specific context
of this study, most notably with primary EFL teachers in Thailand