Effect of instructional resources on children’s number work performance in pre schools in Isibania zone,Migori County

Abstract

Use of instructional resources has found little, if any acceptance in most of our EeDE centers. Observation reveals that most preschool teachers don't use instructional resources when teaching number work. Most parent and EeDE managers appear to pressurize the preschool teachers to undertake academic work as opposed to allowing children to learn naturaily through interaction with instructional resources. The purpose of this study therefore was to investigate the effect of instructional resources on child.ren's number ..v..ork performance with special reference to the types of instructional resources used, teachers' academic qualification and use of instructional resources, organization of instructional resources In classroom and adequacy of instructional resources. The study used descriptive survey design. The target population comprised ECDE children and preschool teachers in Isebania Zone Migori County. There were 35 pre-school,11 pre-schools were selected for the study through stratified random sampling. Through use of simple random sampling 5 pre-school were selected from public and 6from private pre-schoo1.225 children were selected from possible population of 750 preschools using simple random sampling. Questionnaires were used to collect data from ECDE teachers while observation checklist was used to asses the presence of instructional resources used during number work lesson. Observation schedule was also used to investigate the organization of instructional resources in classroom and their effective use in learning number work. Own made number work test was administered to children to determine performance. The data collected was analyzed using descriptive statistics. The data was analyzed using statistics and qualitative techniques and presented in of visual and audio visual resources WRS minimal when teaching number work. Also use of instructional resources ill public schools was minimal compared to private pre-schools. The study recommended that the government should train and employ preschool teachers. The study also suggested for a further research to be carried out on the effect of government budget allocation on EeDE centres