The Development of Preschool Teachers’ Knowledge and Abilities on Provision of Experience to Enhance Young Children’s Emotional Development in Vicinity

Abstract

The purposes of this research were 1) to compare knowledge and understanding on provision of experience to enhance young children’s emotional development for preschool teachers in vicinity before and after training; 2) to study preschool teachers’ abilities on provision of experience to enhance young children’s emotional development for preschool teachers in vicinity; and 3) to investigate the preschool teachers’ satisfaction towards the training on provision of experience to enhance young children’s emotional development. The sample comprised of 30 preschool teachers whom were responsible for teaching children aged 4-6 years in early childhood settings of the 2019 academic year in Nonthaburi, Pathum Thani, Samut Prakan, and Nakhon Pathom province, obtained by voluntary and be able to attend from start to finish of the training. The employed research instruments were a test to measure preschool teachers’ knowledge and abilities on provision of experience to enhance young children’s emotional development, an evaluation form to assess preschool teachers’ abilities on designing lesson plans for a provision of experience to enhance young children’s emotional development, and the training satisfaction evaluation form. Statistics employed for data analysis were the mean, standard deviation, and t-test. 

Research findings showed that 1) the knowledge and understanding of the preschool teacher on provision of experience to enhance young children’s emotional development were significantly higher than their pre-training counterparts at the .05 level; 2) the abilities of the preschool teachers on a provision of experience to enhance young children’s emotional development was at the highest level; and 3) the preschool teachers rated their satisfaction towards the training on a provision of experience to enhance young children’s emotional development was at the highest level.