Evaluating the Kindergarten Curriculum and Taking into Account the Child’s Developmental Characteristics from The Perspective of Teachers

Abstract

This study aims to identify the level of compliance with kindergarten curriculum in the Kurdistan Region/Iraq, according to their ranking and the importance of developing physical, language, cognitive, behavioral, social, behavioral characteristics, as well as knowledge of characteristics according to their categories and rankings. The researchers used descriptive analytical approach to achieve the aims of the study. The questioner survey was consisted a 30 item kindergarten questioner survey, which included six areas of children development in kindergarten, the tool was taken from Alqarshy (2022), the two researchers extracted the validity and reliability, the translation validity and internal consistency were used, and the result was significant. Also, the validity was used by the Cronbach alpha coefficient and split-half, and the result was acceptable. The tool was consisted to a random sample of 170 teachers Kindergarten in (10) kindergartens of Sulaymaniyah city. The most prominent results were that the kindergarten curriculum in the Kurdistan Region/ Iraq, for the consideration of child developmental characteristics in general is very high. More ever consideration of characteristics according to the ranking the moral characteristics comes first, then social characteristics, then physical characteristics, then the language characteristics, then cognitive characteristics and finally the emotional characteristics comes in sixth place from the perspective of teachers to evaluate the kindergarten curriculum in the Kurdistan Region. In addition, consider the kindergarten program in the Kurdistan Region / Iraq, according to the items of physical, language, cognitive, behavioral, emotional, sociality and moral at a high level, the researchers made several recommendations based on the results of the study.