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2. The purpose of the study

1. To investigate the problems of student teaching supervision by university supervisors at Prince of Songkla University under the context of the southern border provinces area. 2. To study the directions of student teaching supervision by university supervisors at Prince of Songkla University under the context of the southern border provinces area.

3. Scope of the study

The scope of the study composes of 1 the roles of university supervisors, 2 the supervision methods, 3 the direction of supervision program in the future, 4 motivation and the context of three southern border provinces. A university supervisor is defined as a person who has been assigned to supervise, closely consult to, giving suggestion and help to the advisee. Moreover, the university supervisor plays four key roles: 1.1 supervise student teaching by several methods like teaching observation, teaching demonstration, lesson plan supervision etc., 1.2 advise the student teachers about the profession knowledge, teacher affairs and teacher practicum, 1.3 measure and assess the student teaching, 1.4 coordinate and establish a good relationship between the teacher production institutions and the schools where the student teaching is happened and cooperate with the teacher production institutions to improve the system of student teaching. Secondly, the supervision methods involve any means used in the supervision or any model of the supervision depending on the concepts and belief in each period. It can be seen that the means of the supervision relates to the progress of the education management. For example, the clinic supervision is a model of teaching observation process to improve the quality of teaching. Many educationists and supervisory specialists have proposed the process of the clinic supervision consisting of many models. The model of Goldhammer Goldhammer : 34 – 49 , cited in Thaipanit, N . 1992: 101 – 102 is a model of the clinic supervision consisting of five steps: 1 pre- teaching observation meeting, 2 observe teaching, 3 analyze data and determine the process of supervision meeting, 4 supervision meeting and 5 supervisory behavior analysis meeting. Another supervision model is the goodwill and instructional supervision Kalayanimit supervision. Amornvivut, S . 2003 mentioned that the model of the goodwill and instructional supervision Kalayanimit supervision is a process to improve learning classified by four components: give, join, intend and open. Third, the direction of supervision program in the future will be talked about the tendency of indirect supervision involving the media, computer, communication technology etc. The advance of communication technology plays a significant role in the supervision management in the future involving self-supervision, remote supervision, indirect supervision etc. Fourth, the motivation involves both internal and external motivation that stimulates the behavioral direction to the success as needed. The last one is the context of three southern border provinces which are Pattani, Yala and Narathiwas where there are the insurgency situations, daily killing, bombing, shooting teachers and governmental officials, These affect the insecurity of life and properties.

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