Creating Moral and Ethical Tales of Pre-service Teachers of Early Childhood Education Programme By using Backward Design

Abstract

Fairy tales play a vital role in fostering early childhood development. Learning to create fairy tales, especially fairy tales that can promote morality and ethics for early childhood children, will result in appropriate and sustainable social development for children. As well as resulting in pre-service teachers learning meaningfully and valuablely. Able to innovate on their own individual potential with a backward design learning model that encourages pre-service teachers and educators to know and understand common goals. This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of using a backward design learning approach to teach moral-ethical storytelling to pre-service teachers in early childhood education. Specifically, it seeks to compare the story-building skills of such pre-service teachers before and after the application of the aforementioned approach. The study sample comprises 36 second-year early childhood education students from the 2021 academic year. The literature and tales used in the study were selected via cluster random sampling. The research instruments employed included backward design learning plans and a morality-ethical storytelling test, with data analyzed through average and standard deviation statistics. The findings indicate that the backward design learning approach can develop the creation of moral and ethical tales for pre-service teacher s and the students had higher ethical storytelling skills after the backward design learning management than before the experiment in all aspects. Develop learning skills that can be applied in real life And see the results that can be used in the future, along with cultivating early childhood children to grow up to be good citizens of society with quality.