Profiling Early Childhood Teachers’ Skills in Designing Musical and Song Learning Activities

Abstract

This study investigates early childhood teachers' skills in designing musical kinaesthetic and song learning activities in Lembang District, Western Bandung Regency. It is a qualitative with non-hypothetical research involving 25 early childhood teachers selected from some schools. Data were collected from document analysis and semi-structured interview with the teachers. Based on the data analysis results, it was found that the teachers were in the average level as indicated from their daily lesson plan obtained mean score 62. However, 10 out of 25 lesson plans referred to have similar formats. This statement is strengthened by the interview results showing that the teachers faced some challenges in designing their daily lesson plans as they rarely joined professional development programs. As a result, some teachers did not develop their daily lesson plans whereas some others merely downloaded it from the internet or copied from other schools. Therefore, the teachers are required to get further trainings particularly related to designing musical kinaesthetic and song learning activities.