Teaching Competency Development for Early Childhood Education

Abstract

Early Childhood Education Teachers in Indonesia still have below average standards, one of which is the standard of educators, most of the PAUD teachers in Indonesia are still high school graduates. The conditions above, of course, affect the quality of learning, so that not a few applications in the field of learning many "malpractice". The aim of this study is to improve teacher teaching competencies through training activities. The results of the preliminary study found several problems, including the teaching techniques of teachers which were still low or limited. The Efforts to fix the above problem starts with teaching basic skills training are questioning skills, provide reinforcement, explaining, managing a classroom, creating variations, open and close the lesson. The results of increased training in teaching competency development have progressed by 23.14%, increasing from 40.79% (pre-test) to 70.43% (post-test). The implication of this activity is that the participants are expected to be able to apply the teaching skills they have acquired at the same time they can teach their fellow teachers who did not participate in the training.