Development and Validation of a Curriculum Design for In-Service Training of Pre-School Teachers

The aim of this study was to develop and validate a curriculum design for in-service training of preschool teachers using practical action research method through participation of 24 preschool teachers and 6 experts in educational sciences. The results showed that the in-service training program need to extend teachers’ understanding, skills and attitudes about child development, children with special needs, educational games, effective communication, children's rights, foundations and principles of learning, arts education and design of learning environments. These objectives could be achieved through selecting and organizing six key syllabus with their specific content headlines. Throughout this course, teachers need to be considered as active participants and the time and the place of the training course should be tailored to their needs and situation. Likewise, teachers’ performance should be evaluated by authentic methods and its results need to be considered as a tool to provide constructive feedback and to improve the performance of teachers and their professional promotion.