Improvement of the Ability of the Students in an Education Program to Design the Lesson Plans by Using an Instruction Model based on the Theories of Constructivism and Metacognition

AbstractA number of students who are educated to be primary and secondary school teachers still have problems in designing lesson plans. In this research, an instruction model for improving the ability of students in designing the lesson plans was developed. The instruction model was based on the theories of constructivism and metacognition. The research activities consist of 4 steps as follows. Firstly, a learning unit was created by using the backward design approach. Secondly, an instruction model was designed by employing the theories of constructivism and metacognition. Based on this instruction model, the lesson plans of the learning units were prepared for teaching the students. Thirdly, 18 students of Nakhon Pathom Rajabhat University were taught by using this instruction model for one semester. Finally, the ability in designing the lesson plans of these students were evaluated. The evaluation was based on the achievement of the study and the quality of the lesson plans produced by these students. It was found that the ability in designing the lesson plans of the student after being taught by using this instruction model was significantly improved. In addition, the lesson plans obtained from 33.3%, 50.0% and 16.7% of the total students were evaluated to be in the very good, good and moderate levels, respectively