Kesan Kelayakan Ikhtisas dan Tahun Pengalaman terhadap Pengetahuan Kurikulum Prasekolah dalam Kalangan Guru Tadika Swasta (The Effects of Professional Qualifications and Years of Experience on Preschool Curriculum Knowledge among Private Kindergarten Teachers)

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (02) ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (38) ◽  
pp. 01-12
Author(s):  
Abdul Halim Masnan ◽  
Muhammad Haziq Mohd Sharif ◽  
Masayu Dzainuddin ◽  
Hafsah Taha ◽  
Mohd Mokhzani Ibrahim ◽  
...  

The new preschool curriculum in Malaysia is known as the National Preschool Standard-Based Curriculum (NPSC) (Revised 2017) requires knowledgeable, well-skilled and more experienced teachers in its implementation. This study aimed to identify the teachers’ level of knowledge about the new preschool curriculum from the private sector. A total of 269 private kindergarten teachers in a Selangor district were randomly selected as respondents. They were asked to respond to the questionnaire and the data collected were then analysed descriptively. Overall findings showed that the majority of those private kindergarten teachers had a High Level of knowledge about the new preschool curriculum. The demographic details also revealed that the majority of private kindergarten teachers had more years of experience, but half of them did not have any professional qualifications and not involved in professional development. In conclusion, these findings explained that though half of the private kindergarten teachers do not meet the professional criteria, they have good knowledge of NPSC (Revised 2017). This study has suggested that further research relating to the preschool curriculum is needed and provides supportive information to the Ministry of Education (MOE) and local private kindergartens.


Author(s):  
Abdo Hasan AL-Qadri ◽  
Zhao Wei ◽  
Mohammad Hamad Al-khresheh ◽  
Xiaoduan Chen ◽  
Ali Usman Hali

Due to the importance and special nature of kindergarten stage on children’s cognitive, social, emotional and psychological growth, this study aimed at identifying the main teaching competencies required for kindergarten teachers in China. To achieve this objective, an observation card was applied on a group of 41 teachers from different kindergartens. The findings of the study suggested, firstly, that the levels of teaching competencies might be divided into five levels. This classification might be attributed to the variables of the study; namely, specialization, qualification and teaching years of experience. Secondly, the findings also revealed that, on the one hand, there were statistically significant differences according to the variable of specialization and the years of experience. On the other hand, no significant differences were found due to the variable of academic qualification. On the basis of these findings, a group of recommendations were put forward.


Author(s):  
Abdo Hasan AL-Qadri ◽  
Zhao Wei ◽  
Mohammad Hamad Al-khresheh ◽  
Xiaoduan Chen ◽  
Ali Usman Hali

Due to the importance and special nature of kindergarten stage on children’s cognitive, social, emotional and psychological growth, this study aimed at identifying the main teaching competencies required for kindergarten teachers in China. To achieve this objective, an observation card was applied on a group of 41 teachers from different kindergartens. The findings of the study suggested, firstly, that the levels of teaching competencies might be divided into five levels. This classification might be attributed to the variables of the study; namely, specialization, qualification and teaching years of experience. Secondly, the findings also revealed that, on the one hand, there were statistically significant differences according to the variable of specialization and the years of experience. On the other hand, no significant differences were found due to the variable of academic qualification. On the basis of these findings, a group of recommendations were put forward.


2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 111
Author(s):  
Mervat Ragab Saber ◽  
Fayza A. Yousf

<p>The present study is an attempt to find out the availability of scientific competencies among kindergarten female teachers for identifying children with special needs in Najran and to identify the correlation between the scientific competencies to identify children with special needs and the attitude towards them. The variables utilized in this study are (specialization, years of experience, and number of courses). The study sample consists of (150) kindergarten teachers in Najran for the academic year (2014/2015). For achieving the purposes of the study, the two authors utilized a questionnaire to measure the scientific competencies, which comprised (43) items and another questionnaire to measure the attitude towards children with special needs. The study resulted that the kindergarten teachers enjoy scientific competencies related to the skill of identifying the special-needs child and the skill of dealing with that child. There is also a positive relationship between the scores of the sample of the scientific competencies for the special-needs child and their scores on the scale of the attitude towards the child, as well as there are statistical differences for the scales of competencies and attitudes towards the special-needs child in favor of the specialization of Kindergarten and those of medium work experience (6-10) years. <strong></strong></p>


Author(s):  
عيادة عقوب ◽  
محمد فرج أبوتبينة

The purpose of the present research is to examine the level of some concepts of positive psychology (psychological satisfaction, self-efficacy, emotional effort) with kindergarten teachers, and extract the relationship between the level of those concepts of positive psychology and level of mental health with 86 kindergarten teachers in Zliten city. The Psychological Satisfaction Scale and the Self-Effectiveness Scale had been used. Results show that kindergarten teachers have an acceptable level of psychological satisfaction, furthermore, high level of self-efficacy, and emotional effort, whilst, the level of mental health was within the average range, the results also showed positive related statistically significant between the concepts of positive psychology and mental health terms of Strength of the relationship were as follows: (emotional effort, psychological satisfaction, self-efficacy), these concepts have a moderate impact on the level of mental health, and this means that there are other factors that affect mental health in addition to these factors, which necessitate subsequent studies dealing with other variables. Furthermore, there are now statistically significant differences in the level of psychological satisfaction and the level of self-efficacy attributable to years of experience, while at the level of emotional effort there were differences due to the variable years of experience, as well as the existence of differences in the level of mental health attributable to years of experience.


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