Online Teaching at ECE: Perspectives of Early Childhood Educators

This study was conducted to investigate the perceptions of teachers about online teaching for the students of early childhood education level whose age are from 3-8 years. For this purpose, 200 teachers at private schools of urban Islamabad were approached in which 197 have responded. A questionnaire on five point Likert scale was developed to take data from teachers. Data was analyzed through descriptive statistics. The findings of the research reflect that online teaching may not appropriate for the students of ECE as they need face to face interaction for individual attention which is not fulfilling in online teaching and the children performance are adversely affected. On the other hand, the findings also revealed that the children performance may not be clearly assess through online assessments procedures.