Increasing The Abilities Of Kindergarten-Early Childhood Education Teachers Through Education And Training

Research Article
Tri Endang Jatmikowati., Angraeny Unedia Rahman and Kukuh Munandar
DOI: 
http://dx.doi.org/10.24327/ijrsr.2018.0910.2849
Subject: 
science
KeyWords: 
Education and training, kindergarten-early childhood education teachers, cognitive and psychomotor abilities.
Abstract: 

The research entitled "Increasing the Ability of Kindergarten-Early Childhood Education Teachers through Education and Training" is the result of research conducted to kindergarten and early childhood teachers in Jember and Bondowoso districts. The aim of the study is to improve the ability of kindergarten-early childhood education teachers who have not received a Bachelor's degree yet, as well as have a Bachelor degree but non-early childhood education. This goal will be achieved by education and training which is done in a classical and field practice methods. The training activities are designed for 14 days (2 classical days and 12 days of field practice, in which there are reflections on field practice activities) which are equivalent to 141 course times. The results show that the ability of the kindergarten-early childhood education teacher is increase particularly at cognitive skill score namely 23.05 and psychomotor skill score namely 2.32.