The important factors influencing music teacher for self-developing in Thailand's private music schools.

Abstract

The increasing number of private music school in Thailand is obviously seen. They try to create their strategy to compete with other competitors and increase their stardard by hiring high knowledge and experienced music teachers in order to gain trust and attract customers. However, private music schools in Thailand still have a lot of problems that occur from music teachers, even though private music schools try to hire a high knowledge and experienced music teacher. The purpose of the paper is to discover the important factors that influence music teacher to be an effective music teacher for their self-developing and decreasing problems that emarge from music teacher in Thailand’s private music school. In order to get a deep and effective result, interviews were conducted with ten music teachers from varieties of private music schools who specialized in several music instuments. They are mixed between high and low knowledge and experience. The result revealed that the attitude toward teaching career are crucial to music teacher. The result is expected to decrease problems that emerge from music teacher. Also, it can improve the recruitment system in private music school. Furthermore, music teachers can develop themselves in order to work happily in this career.

KEY WORD: Music teacher / Private music school / Knowledge and Experience / Attitude toward teaching / Thailand