Delving into preschool teachers’ approaches and knowledge on social skills and its relationship to school readiness / Rafiah Kassim

Objectives of this qualitative study is to discover if the preschool teachers’ teaching approaches on social skills and to determine teachers’ knowledge and understanding on the relationship between social skills and school readiness towards preschoolers’ readiness for future. The data retrieved were from two Malaysian preschools with ten teachers as respondents and interview were recorded. The study’s conceptual 2 framework discusses on the two facets of social skills, with theories and approaches to nurture school readiness. The finding through interviews and questionnaire found that teachers from School A and B understood and has knowledge of social skills. However, during numerous visits to both school researcher’s findings indicated there is a difference in teaching approaches. These contributions allow preschoolers to enjoy the benefit of learning with knowledgeable teachers’ curriculum and teaching methods that has been up scaled to meet the needs of today’s children.