The research objective of this study was to evaluate these answers, describe the current situation and put forward recommendations to policy makers to prepare highquality primary school teachers in Thailand. The study was based on future research design using the methodology of the Ethnographic Delphi Futures Research (EDFR) as a way to reflect the needs of the organizations. | Kasetsart Journal of Social Sciences 38 2017 105e110 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Kasetsart Journal of Social Sciences journal homepage http locate kjss Proposed policy for preparation of high-quality primary school teachers in Thailand Sutidarat Mattavarat a Pongsin Viseshsiri b Pruet Siribanpitak b a Faculty of Education Dhonburi Rajabhat University Bangkok 10600 Thailand b Faculty of Education Chulalongkorn University Bangkok 10332 Thailand a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history Successful countries in education show that the reform process to improve teacher quality Received 7 December 2015 begins by answering fundamental questions about the current problems and the needs of Received in revised form 31 March 2016 the schools. The research objective of this study was to evaluate these answers describe Accepted 22 April 2016 the current situation and put forward recommendations to policy makers to prepare high- Available online 15 April 2017 quality primary school teachers in Thailand. The study was based on future research design using the methodology of the Ethnographic Delphi Futures Research EDFR as a way to Keywords reflect the needs of the organizations. Based on the opinions of 160 interviewed partici- primary education pants 14 experts in education provided consensus ideas for policy development with the teacher policy aim of improving teacher quality in primary education. All organizations involved in teacher quality education need to cooperate to set up standards for high-quality primary school teachers. teacher standards A roadmap is given to set up a new policy. 2017 Kasetsart University. Publishing services by Elsevier . This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license http licenses by-nc-nd . Introduction prevents potentially qualified people from choosing a teaching career. The author of the study concludes that Education reforms often focus on teachers since it is .
