I have created a 4 days Teaching Methodology Course for Pre-schools Teachers to help them developing activities which benefit the development of children in the early stages.

1. Capacity Building
Teaching Methodology Training
Improving Teaching Skills
for a better Early Childhood Education
14th – 17th August 2018
Training Location: Yashodarawatha Pre-school
Attendees: 38 Pre-K Teachers

2. Teaching Methodology Training Content
Session 1 Session 2
- Intro to Kindergarten Activities
- 5 Components of ECE (Early
Childhood Education)
- Class management
- the importance of Visual Literacy
- The importance of Routines
- The importance of Songs, Video
and Flashcards
Focus on Gross Motor Activities
(Run and Touch; Jump on; Walk and
Freeze, Hide and Seek etc.) as a
dynamic way to develop new
learnings as well as physical
development.
Session 3 Session 4
Focus on Social Skills Activities and
Vocabulary Activities (Feelings
Activities, Listening Activities,
Wireless Phone, Memory game,
Guess who etc.) as a way to
develop social and language skills.
Focus on Storytelling and Arts
Activities as a way to develop
emotional, cognitive and creative
skills.

3. Session 1
Intro to Early Childhood Education (ECE)
• When teaching in Kindergarten it’s important to develop an accurate ECE
Curriculum which ensures an holistic learning approach by involving the 5
dimensions of the learning process.
• Kindergarten Activities has to be GAINFUL and LUCRATIVE to keep the
children spam of attention and level of engagement vivid.
Literacy and Numeracy
Cognitive
Social and Emotional
Physical
Creative

4. 5 dimensions of ECE
• Language and Literacy Development involves children’s abilities to convey their ideas, thoughts,
and feelings through speaking and writing, and their ability to demonstrate early reading skills.
• Social and Emotional development involves child’s ability to express and regulate feelings and
develop relations with others. Social Development help children to feel comfortable in school,
trust their environment, make friends, and feel they are a part of the group and emotional
development help children experience pride and self- confidence, develop independence and
self-control, and have a positive attitude toward life.
• Cognitive Development assists children to become confident learners by letting them try out
their own ideas and experience success, and by helping them acquire learning skills such as the
ability to solve problems, ask questions, and use words to describe their ideas, observations, and
feelings. It supports the mental processes needed to think, make sense of the world, and
understand knowledge across different subjects, including mathematics, science, and social
studies.
• Physical Development helps children increase their large and small muscle skills and feel
confident about what their bodies can do. It gives child opportunities to build large- and small-
muscle skills, strength, stamina, and knowledge needed to live a healthy lifestyle.
• Creative Development involves exploration and appreciation of art, creative work, self-
expression; exploration and experimentation with music, singing, and dancing and imitation, role
play, creation/recreation of story, dramatic play with objects (dramatic & socio dramatic play;
levels of block play).

5. Classroom Management
1. Create an attention-grabber TIP: “one two three, silence please!” “Hands on top,
everybody stop!”
3. Make a plan for transitions (when children move from one activity to the next
one) > make children responsible by assigning small tasks to them taking turns.
Let them be your helpers 
4. Create a puppet friend > Using a puppet to help teach manners, skills or
kindness gives the children another authority to learn from—one that is cute and
fuzzy! Name the puppet and involve him in each activity!
5. Use child-friendly labels TIP: Label toys boxes and bins; children will tyde up
the classromm easier.
6. Refer to the routine (when the children are in charge of knowing and
following the routines, you’ll no longer have to constantly remind and
direct them)
7. Creatively manage crisis TIP: One cute little calming down trick is to
have a little bottle of bubbles that you can have kids blow when they feel
angry or use a soft rubber toy to squeeze to release tension.

6. The importance of VISUAL LITERACY
• Visual Literacy is the ability to comprehend, make meaning of,
and communicate through visual means, usually in the form
of images, videos, artworks, children’s books etc.
• Benefits: improve children verbal skills, more highly
developed self-expression and ordering of ideas, motivation
and engagement in a variety of subjects, self-image and
relationship to the world and self-reliance, independence
and confidence

7. The importance of ROUTINES
• For Teachers: routines help teachers to maintain order and also
help the kids stay calm. If there is a set activity for every part of
the day, you will be able to focus more on your teaching and less
on giving instructions and generally controlling the class.
• For Children: efficient routines make it easier for students to
learn and achieve more. Repetition helps children to consolidate
learnings and develop self-confidence
OUTDOOR
ACTIVITIES
SONGS &
DANCES
WARM UP
ACTIVITIES

8. Session 2
The importance of
GROSS MOTOR ACTIVITIES
• Motor Activity = a movement that involves the child to use muscle
• Gross Motor Activities are are larger movements children make with arms, legs,
feet, or their entire body.
• Fine Motor Activities are tiny movements children make.
Learning through GMA helps children in their
GROSS MOTOR DEVELOPMENT process
Learning through GMA helps children to increase their large and small muscle skills and
feel confident about what their bodies can do. It gives children opportunities to build
strength, coordination, endurance postural control and balance. Plus, it helps children to
learn in a dynamic and amusing way! And keep them engaged in the learning process!

9. Example of Gross Motor Activities
• «Run and Touch»
• «Jump on the flashcards»
• «Move like animals»
• «Toss / Launch the ball»
• «Roll and Move»
• «Find and Tag it»
• «Hide and Seek»
• «Walk and Freeze»
All these activities can be
repeated with different topics.
Repeating the activies allow
children to build awareness and
self confidence.
They can be played
INDOOR or OUTDOOR

10. Session 3
The importance of playing
SOCIAL SKILLS ACTIVITIES
• They are activities children play in groups.
• They help children to grow accustomed to interacting
with others and socialising with non-family
members.
• Social Skills are essential in order for preschoolers to
make a smooth transition to school.
Learning through Social Skills Activities helps children in their
SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT Process

11. Example of Social Skills Activities
• «Feelings Activities»
• «Pass the Icecream»
• «Create together (Friendship flower)»
• «Teamwork/cooperation games»

12. The Importance of
VOCABULARY ACTIVITIES
• «Wireless phone»
• «Memory Game»
• «Guess Who»
• «Create Word Walls»
• «Create Handmade Books»
• «Matching Game» Using Visual
Literacy
methodology to
learn vocabulary

13. Session 4
The Importance of STORYTELLING
• Storytelling helps to enhance cultural understanding,
since stories give children the chance to explore their
own and other cultures. When hearing stories, children
learn o empathise with unfamiliar situations, places,
and people. Keeps children engaged in learning.
Encourages purposeful talking and discussion.
Learning through Storytelling helps
children in their
EMOTIONAL and COGNITIVE
DEVELOPMENT Process

14. The Importance of ART
• Art Activities consists of Crafts, Painting and
Colouring activities.
• Painting and Colouring helps children to develop
their FINE MOTOR SKILLS
• Most important, when kids feel good while they
are creating, art helps boost self-confidence.
Learning through Art helps children
to deveop creativity and acquire self-
confidence