“Developed countries have good education that will make people work in line with what they have studied. And do this work with passion.
This is not limited to all professions or just engineering. To be successful in life
Meet LSP School, a satit patana school that aims to let every child choose to study according to their preferences and abilities. Develop to your fullest potential within the concept of “Be your best”
Until it becomes LSP School
LSP School was the first school managed by Learn Corporation, said Sithaphon Krikonasai, principal of Satit Pattana School, Secondary Division. At first, they thought that if you want to do high school, what should you look like? I found that the first problem was that the time children spent in tutoring schools was much less than when they were in school. If you study here, you will not have to take additional private lessons. There is time left for other activities. If you do high school you should be complete to be able to finish school
The problem is the use of resources. LSP adheres to the principles of personalized education and is a high school with a student population of 900. I don't really agree with some parents. For example, some think that if their child is 12 years old, he will obviously become a doctor. . We have to ask: Is he a pure child or a pure mother? We must help him find the right target. We have the resources ready. Both teaching partners and class schedule are individual. Everyone has a different study schedule. You want to study architecture, you don't have to study chemistry. These things can be designed.
Other schools may find it difficult to do this because there is no tutoring department. Not having enough resources We believe we are doing more right than wrong. We opened in 2020 (from MT1 to MT6), and this year 2024 the number of students will increase to 900 students. We did not expect that. Middle school students must study until the fourth grade, but they must find their dream career, which can be divided into 4 career paths, divided into 4 study plans to choose from as follows.
Track One: Public Health Sciences
Second track: Engineering and Technology
Third track: Commercial Arts
Track 4: Social Work and Third Language
We have been running a school since 2020. Our character is No matter how much energy we put into researching ourselves during middle school, high school students can still change paths until Mathaume 5. As a result of choosing to study according to the path, the percentage of students graduating can be divided as the next.
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No. 1. Health Sciences and 2. Engineer and Technology, total 40-50%, No. 3. Commercial Arts and 4. Business and Social Sciences, the percentage is approximately 50-60%, which every year has a different percentage.
High school level it's our specialty. Because we come from a tutoring school, the main theme is personal growth, which is our important tool. We mirror children professionally, using RIASEC stations, which America has been using for a long time. We will do this every semester, two semesters per year, for a total of 6 reports reflecting professional competence.
RIASEC is an assessment of personality and competence. By allowing students to research themselves in different aspects, including preferences, abilities and talking with advisors. Psychology Tutor and allows students to choose from over 40 topics in Thai and English. Including an I-Career workshop activity to introduce children to different professions.
We believe in positive psychology or positive psychology People do the right thing because it is the right thing to do. And do not do the right thing because of fear of punishment. Checked RIASEC and Positive Psychology and freely chose to study (elective subject) according to his likes and dislikes. To reflect what they truly love
In addition, there is also a careers workshop every semester. There are 6 vocational workshops per semester, for a total of 36 vocations for a total of 6 semesters. When students do the workshop, we do both peer learning and peer pressure. There will be conversations like this from Mathayum 1 to Mathayum 3 to check out what they like and don't like. More than 140 Mathayum 3 students will enter Mathayum 4 and will have their dream careers or careers. everything is clear. Tuition fees are approximately 300,000 baht, so it should compete with international schools.
At LSP, upon reaching high school, IELTS and TOEFL tests are taken for high school level in international schools. There is an annual cost ranging from 6-7 hundred thousand baht to 1 million baht, but when compared in the dimension of competition in English. We are not considered less than anyone else because we have APPA (Advisor for Study Abroad in England, America and Australia, whether at high school, bachelor's or master's level) as an agency that provides expertise in organizing Learn Corp camps.
There are currently 3 courses: Signature Program, International Program and the newest course: International Signature Program (ISP) ISP teaches with both Thai and American certificates. It is an educational qualification that comes under a cooperation agreement with the Washington Academy in the United States of America, where students obtain a high school diploma in addition to a high school diploma.
We will advise parents that if you choose to stay with us you will have to study until high school, and it will be worth it because we track information all the time about who wants what. Every university is different. We can point children in the right direction. 70% of our students participated in the first round of portfolio submission. Not only did they get into good universities, but they had a real passion for it. This was considered a win from the beginning. It was a beautiful start.
We have a boarding school or dormitory school. There is housing for males and housing for females. There are 22-23% of students from other governorates. The more diverse the population. It is even better. We open in 2020. If compared to the present, it is considered to have increased 6 times. Satit Pattana School was established 16 years ago (there are a lot of children in the kindergarten – primary stage). From the beginning there were 150 people and now it has increased to 900 people. .It is growing rapidly.Everyone works well together.
The target now has 900 students considered to have reached their full potential. In the future there may be two branches here. We are in a suburban area with an area of more than 40 rai. The method of recruiting students may change, but the personalized education curriculum remains unchanged.
LSP School Excellence
Excellence is not just a matter of personalization in terms of professional life. But it also caters to people looking for a way to study abroad. We are trying to find a way for you regarding the curriculum. It may not be different from international schools. The fact that we often dream that we will go abroad, we try to make it closer to you so that you can actually go.
If we go back to the last five to ten years, international schools are good but expensive, and we think that if we do something, we have to do it well. But it doesn't have to be expensive when we compare ourselves with international schools. What does it do well, and how much does it cost? We can do it at a lower cost. If higher education has begun to be allocated to parents and children for this generation, they want to be clear from the high school level. To our point how can we maintain Thainess on the world stage? How can we maintain our Thai identity? He has to keep up with the world but he still has not forgotten his roots. And there is an actual practice that is an important identity that we are trying to create.
Challenges from the opening of the school until now
The school is growing rapidly. Teachers must be hired to meet demand. There are students from different fields. Different schools and cultures. Teachers come from many different places. We come together to develop. What kind of culture should there be? When the system starts to stabilize it can start to develop Buildings will also be constructed in 2021. There are changes in the automation system, which represents a threat and an opportunity at the same time. We continue our efforts with constant monitoring and adjustment, and 3 years from now, if we look back and see all the time, what will have changed from before? We will prepare children to deal with change.
What we want to see most is helping students find their identity. Don't let the line be limited to only doctors and engineers for success. Personalized learning is probably the best way to teach right now. Developed countries have good education and will make people work as they have learned. And do this work with passion
In matters of mental health care or mental health issues
We have a mental health center and an identity lab room where students can come and talk with teachers. It's not just about having mental problems. But you can talk about other things too, children have the opportunity to meet foreign friends. Different classrooms all the time It's not like you're studying at Mathayom 1/1 level and you have to study in this room all the time, so if you want to have social skills. We must allow him to learn to live in a diverse society.
For lunch we have buffet food. Both Thai and International In the dining room, the area is shared between elementary, middle and high school students, divided into 3 breaks, including salads. For food care, S&P has an auction every two years. Now there are 900 students, the capacity is full, and we are still short of space, and it is not just a classroom but a room for programming and developing robots.
Teachers work reasonably well. Do not work until you are tired. Low turnover rate
Currently, one teacher has a workload of 18 lessons per week. On average, it is 12-20 lessons less than Thai schools, and children study 40 lessons per week. There are currently 80 Thai teachers, 40 foreign teachers, more than 40 IT department members and other staff as well, a total of 2,200 students (plus kindergartens and primary schools), and a total of nearly 400 teachers, principals and others taking care of the primary school study
With teacher turnover at around 3%, it is important to keep teachers active. Teachers who are excluded are teachers who are often absent from work. Because we have a semester break, in one year there is a semester break of up to one and a half months. During the beginning of the semester, we expect that there will be no leave or absence, other than sick leave. If 1 teacher suddenly misses work and it will affect more than 100 children, as for foreign teachers, we have to buy his trust. If we had education rates at this level, the salaries of foreign teachers would be an important factor. Foreigners will think that if they teach in England they get this salary. It doesn't matter where he teaches. But it should get the same rating.
If you are teaching in-person, you cannot rely on full-time teachers alone. Because you have to pay a very high salary. We use partners from a source who specialize in this particular field, for example teaching music, there are teachers from Mahidol University.
The factor that attracts teachers is that our school has an adjustable curriculum,” said teacher Tom Thammachan-Wood. “Teachers can design the teaching. We have good facilities. We take care of foreign teachers. Give good compensation, if he has children he wants his children to study here. For foreign teachers the turnover rate is not high. It is a year-to-year contract, with Visa involved.
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