The Development of Training Course Curriculum to Encourage the Early Childhood Teacher’s Experience Ability to Enhance Executive Function Skills for Early Childhood

Abstract

This research aims were 1) to study basic information about the training course and 2) to develop and find the quality of the training course to encourage the early childhood teacher’s experience ability to enhance executive function skills for early childhood, using a mixed-method research methodology. The participants consisted of 16 teachers, experts and 50 early childhoods, they obtained by using purposive sampling. Research instruments included of three parts: 1) document analysis form, 2) teachers and expert opinion interview, 3) early childhood need questionnaire and 4) the training course quality assessment. The statistics used for data analysis were mean, standard deviation and content analysis, respectively. The research results are as follows: 1) The training course to encourage the early childhood teacher’s experience ability to enhance executive function skills for early childhood should be a course that focuses on enabling teachers to learn both theory and practice in organizing experiences that aim to enhance EF skills for early childhood. The course content must include principles of organizing activities, analyzing EF teaching and learning activities, designing teaching and learning that aims to enhance EF skills, and organizing teaching and learning that enhance EF skills for early childhood. The activities must train teachers to plan in line with the 6 main activities that can be integrated into classroom activities with early childhood. 2) The developed training course (ASSIE Model) consists of 5 steps: (1) Needs Analysis (Analysis) (2) Setting Objectives (Setting) (3) Selection of Content and Learning Experiences (Selection) (4) Implementation of the Course (Implementation) and (5) Evaluation of the Course (Evaluation). The training course has 6 components: 1) Principles 2) Objectives 3) Content 4) Organizing Activities 5) Media and Learning Resources and 6) Evaluation. The developed training course is of high quality.