The programme has been designed to provide practicing trainee educators with the relevant, skills and attitudes to support the child’s development and learning.

The aims of this programme are to:

• Develop in trainee educators an understanding of the basic principles and practices of teaching and learning at pre-primary level

•  Equip the trainee educators with appropriate pedagogical knowledge, values and skills for effective teaching and learning process at pre-primary level.

• Enable trainee educators to create a stimulating learning environment and to nurture the pre-primary child’s natural desire to learn.

• Promote in the trainee educators the love and the joy of caring for the pre-primary school children.

• Equip trainee educators with the knowledge, values and skills that help promote self-confidence, self-esteem, motivation and eagerness to communicate, think and create.

• Help trainee educators to plan and implement the National Curriculum Framework.