Asst. Prof. Dr. Maitree Inprasitha

Brief CV

Asst. Prof. Dr. Maitree Inprasitha is a Dean of Faculty of Education and Director of Center for Research in Mathematics Education, Khon Kaen University. He is currently chair of an International Program Committee of EARCOME6. In the 12th ICME to be held in Seoul in 2012, he is invited as a regular lecture. He has been managing five international projects by Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC HRD 03/2006, HRD 02/2007, HRD 02/2008 and HRD 01/2010s and HRD 01/2011s). In these projects, he made a great contribution in implementing Lesson Study in APEC member economies. He also contributes to teacher education program and teacher professional development in Thailand and Mekong sub-region. During 2006-2009, he has conducted a professional development program supported by the Ministry of Education, implementing two innovations – Lesson Study and Open Approach – among 4 project schools and now Lesson Study has been expanded to cover 22 schools in northeast and north parts of Thailand.

Abstract

Lesson Study as an Innovation for Teacher Professional Development:A Decade of Thailand Experience 

Before entering the 21st century, most of affluent countries have been preparing new skills for their children while most of non-affluentcountries do not recognize this shift. Report on TIMSS and PISA is a good evidence for the difference. However, during the last decade before entering the 21st century, all of the countries across the world have become recognized the necessity of 21st century skills and attempting to improve their school education to serve these skill demand for their citizen. If taking Thailand as a case, it has been undergoing an educational reform movement since 1999, after the first Educational Act was launched. A number of educational institutions have been attempting to respond to the national agenda, to reform learning process, and respond to the new demand of 2001 curriculum which emphasis on the integration of three major components of the curriculum: subject matters, skills and learning processes, and desirable characters. This paper describes a decade of Thailand experience attempting to implement Japanese Lesson Study as an adaptive innovation for teacher professional development through the project running by Center for Research in Mathematics Education (CRME), Khon Kaen University since 2002.