Effect of Early Childhood Education Training Programmes on Child Development

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to investigate the effect of early childhood education (ECE) training
programmes on child development. The study is descriptive in nature and a survey method was
applied for the collection of data. Ninety (90) teachers and heads of pre-schools of Taxila city were
included in the population. A research questionnaire based on five-point Likert scale was used to
collect the data and the questionnaire was personally administered by the researcher. Chi-Square
association test was utilized to explore the association between responses of the students and
percentage was also used for data analysis. The majority of teachers mentioned that ECE training
programmes offer multiple skills for teachers such as use of instructional resources, knowledge
competencies of teachers, comprehension of content, and principles of the learning process.
Further ECE training programmes effectively contribute into the developmental process of child
while providing diversity of professional development concepts. The study recommended that to
make the teaching process more effective and to get better results in the field of education, teachers
may have pedagogical skills to improve classroom management.