Development of program for enhancing the ideal desirable characteristic of basic school administrators

The objective of this research is to develop a program for enhancing ideal desirable characteristic of basic school administrators. An in-depth interview was done with experts. The opinions of school administrators, assistant school administrators, and teachers as the chiefs of academic work were found out. A total of 330 persons participated in this work. Questionnaire was used as instrument for collecting data from schools as well as Focus Group Discussion of the educational scholars. The experts were asked to evaluate the program.  The program was tried out with the samples including 30 school administrators. The statistic used in this research included mean, standard deviation, Cronbach’s Correlation Coefficient, Pearson Correlation Coefficient, the Priority Need Indicator (PNI Modified), and Independent t-test.  The research implementation findings showed that the program for enhancing the ideal desirable characteristic of basic school administrators in Thailand consisted of 4 major factors: 1) Stewardship, 2) Empathy, 3) Building learning community, and 4) Foresight.  In addition, the program used for enhancing the ideal desirable characteristic of basic school administrators showed that the participants had higher ideal desirable characteristic before development at .01 significant level.  Moreover, they were able to organize their school management efficiently. Key words:  Desirable characteristic, ideal desirable characteristic, program, basic school administrators.