Thailand’s Ministry of Education invited IRIDeS members to give lectures inDisaster Education Training Workshops at Bangkok （2016/8/7-11）
Theme：Disaster Education, Elementary School Students, Thailand
Location: Bangkok, Thailand

The National Institute for Development of Teachers, Faculty Staff and Education Personnel(NIDTEP), Ministry of Education, Thailand, organized the Training Workshop on Disaster Education
during August 7-11, 2016. The NIDTEP invited Assoc. Prof. Anawat Suppasri and Researcher Dr.
Natt Leelawat of International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS) to give lectures andguidance in this event.
The target of this workshop is to create the knowledge foundation for teachers in order to initiate
the plan to establish the disaster education textbooks and educational tools to be used in theelementary or upper schools in Thailand. With less experience in disaster education in theacademic curriculum, the Ministry of Education aims to follow the role model of Japan’s disastereducation.
The training workshop was opened by Dr. Prasit Kheowsri (Deputy Director of the NIDTEP). The
participants consist of 32 teachers from the Ministry of Education. They are from the Northern andSouthern parts of the country, where experienced various natural disasters including the 1992
Typhoon Gay, the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, and the 2014 Mae Lao Earthquake. Assoc. Prof.
Anawat Suppasri gave a lecture on “Introduction to Natural Disasters”, followed by Dr. Natt
Leelawat’s lecture on “Disaster Information Systems”.
The lecturers, Assoc. Prof. Anawat Suppasri and Dr. Natt Leelawat, introduced the textbooks usedin elementary schools in Sendai and the educational tools, developed by the IRIDeS, such as
Gensai Pocket YUI, Disaster Stamp Rally, Disaster Action Cards, etc. Also, Dr. Natt Leelawat gave
a lecture on “Introduction to iOS Mobile Application Programming and Design” to be an alternative
idea for educational tool design.
After that, the participants were grouped according to their school’s regions. With the guidance ofAssoc. Prof. Anawat Suppasri and Dr. Natt Leelawat, the participants were assigned to design thesuitable disaster education lessons and educational tools based on what they learned and theirlocal experience. Then, each team was requested to give a presentation on their ideas, followedby the wrap-up session to conclude all idea and summarize the future plan. In addition, theparticipants visited the National Disaster Warning Center to learn the real disaster warning
operation.
The outcome of this workshop will be used as the framework and guideline for preparing thedisaster education lessons and tools in Thailand next year.
Reported by Anawat Suppasri and Natt Leelawat (Hazard and Risk Evaluation Research Division)(continues on the next page）

[Front row] Assoc. Prof. Anawat Suppasri, Dr. Prasit Kheowsri (NIDTEP), and Dr. Natt
Leelawat; [Back row] Parcipants from the Ministry of Education

Dr. Prasit Kheowsri (NIDTEP) gave an opening

Assoc. Prof. Anawat Suppasri and Dr. Nattspeech

Leelawat were invited to give lectures at thetraining workshop

The team discussed on the education lessons

The team discussed on the educationand tool focusing on storm disasters

lessons and tools focusing on earthquake
disasters

The team representative presented their idea

The team representative presented theirfocusing on tsunami disasters

idea focusing on all-type disasters