Efforts of Early Childhood Education Teachers in Improving Writing Skills for Children Aged 3–4 Years at KB Mutiara Hathe Ngargoyoso

Abstract

The research results at KB Mutiara Hati Ngargoyoso show that the writing skills of children aged 3-4 years have developed and increased according to the students' abilities. However, several factors still influence children's writing skills, both supporting and inhibiting factors. This type of research used was qualitative research. The subjects studied were PAUD teachers and students. Data collection techniques used were interviews and observation. Then the data were analyzed through correlation analysis. Data analysis in the study was inductive. The results of this research indicate that the efforts of early childhood education teachers in improving the beginning writing skills of children aged 3-4 years at KB Mutiara Hati Ngargoyoso are to stimulate writing through the stages of tapping numbers and alphabets (a, b, and 1, 2), singing the alphabet, tearing, squeezing, arranging things, stamping letters/patterns, thickening/shaping, cutting, sticking. At this stage, the children at KB Mutiara Hati have started to show interest in writing implements and have signs of using them to make scribbles of various shapes (zigzag, curved lines, tilted right/left, vertical, horizontal, and others). There are two factors consisting of supporting and inhibiting factors.