Training Program for Kindergarten Teachers on Learning Through Project Approach

DOI

10.2991/icece-16.2017.43How to use a DOI?

Keywords

project approach, teacher training, kindergarten, learning method, student centred

Abstract

In facing the 21st century, children need to be prepared in achieving the learning goals which include not only knowledge and skill, but also disposition and feeling in order to reach their optimum development level. Teachers, who are at the forerunner of education need to be equipped with the understanding and skill of implementing a learning method, such as the Project Approach, that enables children to face the challenges in the 21st century. Project Approach is an approach that utilizes active learning through a child centred learning method. Training and research was then established to get a deeper finding on whether there are significant influences from the training program that the kindergarten teachers received. Subject for this research are total of thirteen teachers from two different kindergarten schools. To explain this project approach training research, a quantitative research using pre and post study design was used, with a pre and post test instrument to analyze and quantify the result. The result of the research further suggested that through preliminary training program on learning with project approach, the teachers ability to explain project approach, including understanding, benefit and stages of project approach, have increased significantly; the teachers ability to design learning with project approach have also improved significantly. The result of learning design that the teachers had made shows a remarkable result for the first stage of the project approach; however the second and third design result was not as optimal. Challenges faced in the research will be elaborated further in the research discussion.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Dian Hartiningsih
AU  - Miranda Diponegoro
AU  - Evita Eddie Singgih
PY  - 2016/11
DA  - 2016/11
TI  - Training Program for Kindergarten Teachers on Learning Through Project Approach
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Early Childhood Education (ICECE 2016)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 244
EP  - 249
SN  - 2352-5398
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