Abstract

Curriculum administration aimed at enhancing life skills is crucial for developing mental resilience, enabling students to adapt, face challenges, solve daily problems creatively, and live happily in society. This study aims to develop the curriculum administration model to enhance primary school students’ life skills in Thai Basic Education. Data collection is divided into 3 steps: 1) the study and analysis of the current and desired state of curriculum administration, based on a survey using questionnaires with 99 samples; 2) the development of a curriculum administration model, informed by document analysis and knowledge sharing with 9 schools’ best practices; and 3) the evaluation of the model’s suitability, using an assessment questionnaire with 9 experts. The study revealed that the current and desired state of curriculum administration is to enhance students’ life skills at the highest level, prioritizing essential needs, with critical thinking, decision-making, and creative problem-solving, and emotion and stress management, as the most important. The curriculum administration model to enhance primary school students’ life skills includes key factors of principles and objectives, collaborative networking, curriculum management factors, life skills enhancement activities, process management, the PDCA cycle, supervision, monitoring, and evaluation. Meanwhile, the model’s suitability is assessed at the highest levels, including feasibility and usefulness. This model will serve as a curriculum management guideline for educational institutions and collaborative networks to effectively promote life skills among primary school students.

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