A Model for School Management Capacity Building through Professional Learning Community in Senior High School

摘要

Efforts to solve the problem of schools' low capacity in providing high-quality education service to their students call for a development program, integrated in daily activities of the school and performed continuously, not just as an incidental activity. Successful school management needs adaptive capacity to satisfy the professional demands and needs of the stakeholders. The management of various conditions of school organization aimed to facilitate dialogues among the Educators and Education Staff can be developed through Professional Learning Community (PLC), in which all parties can learn from the education services they provide daily. This study, conducted in three years, implements two research design. During the first year, it implements descriptive study design, using qualitative approach. Meanwhile, for the study in the second and third year, it uses research and development design. The result of the study is expected to contribute a foundation for developing education management study; specifically the management of senior high school. It can also contribute to the improvement of school quality, which will lead to the development of necessary human resources to build the nation. The targeted findings, formulated in the research questions, are the focus of the study. They are examined and analyzed comprehensively to produce an output that can be a grand theory which is useful to measure the development of education administration study in operational level.