Developing of early childhood education students’ confidence in the presentation by giving award for positive reinforcement teaching technique

Abstract

The research was to study the early childhood education students’ confidence by using giving award for positive reinforcement teaching technique and to study the satisfaction of the students towards the teaching technique. The data was collected from the assessment of students’ confidence in the presentation. The target group with the purposive sampling was 29 second year early childhood education students. The instruments were 5 lesson plans of using giving award for positive reinforcement teaching technique, the confidence in presentation scale and the students’ satisfaction evaluation form. The data obtained were analyzed for mean and standard deviation. The findings of the research were as follows: 1) After the research experiment, the students had the confidence in the presentation at 66.14 which was in high level and before it was at 41.63 2) The students’ satisfaction after using giving award for positive reinforcement teaching technique was in the most levels of presentation confidence, being self-confident, understanding themselves and others and self-emotional controlling.