Abstract:
To study the implementation of teacher college curriculum (revised edition: B.E. 2536) in the field of Education, Early Childhood Program of Rajabhat Institutes: by the accounts for, manual and supplementary for curriculum implementation, personnel preparation, curriculum administration and service, teaching procedures following the curriculum, supervision and follow-up results of curriculum implementation. The instruments used in this research were questionaire and interview form, 383 questionnaires were distributed to administrators, instructors and early childhood major students of Rajabhat Institutes, 350 copies were returned which counted for 91.38 percent and 100 percent for the interview. Data analysis was done by SPSS/PC+ for percentile. The findings can be summarized that most of the samples implemented the following. For manual and supplementary for curriculum implementation, they produced their instructional material by themselves. For personnel preparation, they produced the self-accessed handbooks for their students. For curriculum administration and service, they provided budget for both instructors and students to support teaching-learning activities. For teaching procedures following the curriculum, they found the overlapping of the course contents identified within the curriculum structure. For teaching preparation, they prepared their teaching lessons every time. For teaching-learning activity manipulation, they conducted their students to do research study and reports. For teaching aids implementation, they conducted their students to use local material in producing teaching aids. For teaching-learning measurement and evaluation, they evaluated their students on knowledge, understanding and professional training workshop. For supervision and following up results of curriculum implementation, they interviewed the instructors. Moreover, following the findings above, the problems found in implementing the curriculum can be summarized as follows: lack of texts and documents, lack of instructors, lack of budget, overlapping of course contents, instructors' time lack, too many courses under one instructor's teaching responsibility, lack of good quality and update teaching aid models, unclarification of learners' proficiency scale for professional training workshop evaluation, lack of time to follow up results of curriculum implementation of those responsible for the imternal supervision.