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    Increasing instructors’ teaching innovation: a significant role of leaders in higher education institutions
    In the society of high-speed operation and extreme uncertainty nowadays, innovation becomes a pivotal contributor to enable us to keep up with the advancement of the changing world. In China’s universities, how to cultivate innovative talents has become a focus of education. Since the university is the place where instructors may be the most direct influence factor in the process of student training, their abilities in teaching innovation, which is affected by various factors including leaders who are the key decision-maker, are worthy of attention. Nevertheless, leaders, in reality, tend to place themselves in the secondary position of teaching innovation and neglect to provide necessary resources to support the learning. This paper infers the crucial role of university leaders in improving teaching innovation by analyzing the connotation, the importance, the influencing factors of teaching innovation, and recommendations. The recommendations provided for the university leaders to support instructors in consolidating the importance and procedure of teaching innovation through “GISS”, a guide of action that includes goal-setting, implementation, supporting, and sharing.
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    The model of cultural communication in confucius institutes in Thailand
    This paper discusses the current situation and the model of the Chinese cultural communication of the Confucius Institutes in Thailand, with an aim to sort out and analyze the current problems. Five aspects of cultural communication of Confucius Institutes in Thailand are analyzed using Lasswell's (1948) 5W model of communication. These five aspects are: communicators, audience, contents, media and effects, which correspond to “who”, “to whom”, “say what”, “through which channel” and “with what effects” of the 5W model respectively. Through analysis, the communicators are considered to be the most important factors affecting the effects of the cultural communication. As a result, modules of human resource management are used to analyze and discuss the four aspects of communicators: planning, recruitment, selection and professional development, in order to establish causes of problems associated with cultural communication. This paper established that Big Data and Internet of Things(IoT) should be used in the field of cultural communication of Confucius Institutes in Thailand, to solve the existing problems and improve the management efficiency.
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    The relationship between teachers' perception towards their leadership capacity and school climate in the lovers of the cross of Ubon Ratchathani Schools, Thailand
    The purpose of this research was to determine the relationship between teachers’ perceptions towards their leadership capacity and school climate in five selected schools under the leadership of the Lovers of the Cross of Ubon Ratchathani Congregation. The researcher used the high leadership capacity instrument adopted from Kujur (2016), and based on Lambert’s (2003) Leadership Capacity School Survey (LCSS), as well as the Schools’ Organizational Climate Survey (SOCS) adopted from Josaphat (2005). The results of this study showed that there was both a strong and significant relationship between the teachers’ perceptions towards their leadership capacity and their school climate in the respective schools. This study discussed those respective findings and found that school improvement and student achievement could be better facilitated by increasing teacher leadership capacity and improving the educational effectiveness through the implementation of a more conducive atmosphere for teaching and learning. The teachers and administrators were recommended to identify methods to develop and offer greater opportunities for teachers to facilitate shared ideas, enhance workplace engagement opportunities, develop methods of coherent discussion, as well as to assist and support each other to achieve the school goals. This research suggested that the achievement of these recommendations could be done by developing the communication within the learning community, engaging and inspiring students, collaborating more between shareholders to strengthen leadership capacities and to ultimately improve the school climate within the school. To facilitate this, it was proposed that teachers should revamp their teaching-learning processes through professional development and training, in order to raise teachers’ commitment and devotion to each individual learner.
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    The Extracurricular that Promotes Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs): A study on Student Leaders at Assumption University of Thailand
    According to the quality of education in higher education institution, the component on student development activity is set as one of the quality assurance components that lead to the quality of graduates and the quality of the higher education institution. At Assumption University, the Student Learning Outcomes ( SLOs) are used as the target for student development, the creation of student development plan and the intervention methods or activities in each project are designed and applied in extracurricular for student development. As SLOs are presented in a form of statements indicate the expected results and objectives in each project on student activities. This study, therefore, the SLOs refer to the competencies of students that developed and performed after participating in the extracurricular provided by the University Student Affairs. Hence, this study aimed, (1) to explore the student learning outcomes of the extracurricular provided by the University Student Affairs, and ( 2) to identify the level of achievement of the Student Leaders on the learning outcomes. The 264 projects on student activities were analyzed for the learning outcomes by using the content analysis method. There were ten competencies found as the results of objective one; (1) communication, (2) motivation, (3) virtue ethics, ( 4) intercultural difference sensitivity, ( 5) emotional intelligence, (6) creativity management, (7) teamwork, (8) leadership, (9) discipline, and (10) management. Later, these ten competencies were developed into 42 questions for students’ self- assessment. The results retrieved from 675 respondents shown average score ( Mean) from 5- point rating- scale on the level of achievement on competencies from the highest to the lowest Mean as; virtue ethics 4. 40, communication 4. 36, intercultural difference sensitivity 4. 36, motivation 4.35, emotional intelligence 4.34, creativity management 4. 31, teamwork 4. 29, leadership 4. 26, discipline 4. 22 and management 4.18. The benefit of the study can be used in designing the extracurricular and the intervention method or activities for the student development. This is to be more concentration of students’ need and to promote the quality of students’ life for their development in the education system.