ECE203

MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION OF EARLY

CHILDHOOD EDUCATION INSTITUTION

SITI NOR AIN BINTI IBRAHIM

 TOPIC 1

Organizational Management And Administration Of Early

Childhood Education Institutions (childcare
centres/nurseries (TASKA) and kindergartens/preschools
(TADIKA)
 1.1 Introduction to Management and
Administration ECE Institution.
TADIKA / TASKA / NURSERY @
KINDERGARTEN @ MANAGEMENT
CHILD CENTRE INSTITUTION
PRESECHOOL

ADMINISTRATION
INSTITUTION
 TADIKA / KINDERGARTEN @ PRESECHOOL

DEFINITION
• Tadika is a Malay abbreviation for Taman
Didikan Kanak-Kanak, in which “Taman” Child Care Act 308
means “garden,” and “Didikan” means An Act to provide for the registration, control and
coaching/upbringing, while “Kanak-Kanak” inspection of child care centres and for purposes connected
therewith.
means, well, children. In other words, the
word Tadika in Malay directly translates to Education Act 550
kindergarten.  An Act to provide for education and for matters connected
therewith
 Tadika focuses on offering academic-oriented
learning and personality development for
children aged between 4 and 6 years old. 

Curriculum
NSPC/ KSPK
 TASKA / NURSERY @ CHILD CENTRE

DEFINITION

• Taska is a Malay phrase that stands for ‘Taman Asuhan Kanak-Kanak’, in

which “Asuhan” means to care. Shorten that and we get the popularly used ‘Taska’,
which directly means a child care center or a nursery.

• Taska offers childcare facilities to look and care for children aged 12 months to 4
years while their parents are busy at work.

Curriculum

KPK = National PERMATA Curriculum

MANAGEMENT INSTITUTION

Definition

 Management is essential for an organized life and necessary to run all types of
management.

 Good management is the backbone of successful organizations.

 Managing life means getting things done to achieve life’s objectives and managing
an organization means getting things done with and through other people to achieve
its objectives.

Types of Management
• Planning
• Organizing
• Staffing
• Directing
• Controlling
 ADMINISTRATION INSTITUTION

• More to support the teaching and learning process for an every Early
Childhood Education based on operations, implementation and works for
children.

• Types of administration – technical organization.

• Educator/ educational and infrastructure, financing and curriculum and

principal.

• Type of administration – institution organization.

• The policy in an environment of Early Childhood Education.

 1.2 PLANNING THE ESTABLISHMENT
OF EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
INSTITUTIONS
 Ministry of Education.
• Provide educational opportunities to children regardless of
family income, residential area and ethnic group.
• Children’s Start formal education in 4 years old and above

Principles of Early Childhood Education

• Educational facilities for children 4 to 6 years.

• Coordination of the use of the national preschool standard curriculum.
• Appropriate physical, and quality equipment are supplied.
• Teacher expertise according to qualifications especially in the field.
• The Ministry of Education of Malaysia has succeeded in completing a National Pre-
School Curriculum which based on The Rukun Negara, the Philosophy of National
Education and the Principles of Early Childhood.
• Pre-school education is not part of the
formal education system and is provided
for children aged 4-6 by several
government agencies.
• All pre-school centres are registered
with the Ministry Of Education.
• All preschool are registered in Act
550[Education Act 1996].
 Pre- school at National
Ministry of Education
Primary School

Community Development Division (social

TADIKA KEMAS welfare Department KEMAS), Ministry of Rural
Development

Department of National Unity and Integration,

Malaysia (Ministry Of National Unity and
PERPADUAN Pre-School Social Development

Private Pre-School run by the

Non – Government Organisations
private sector
• To make early childhood education more effective, a universal curriculum structure that can
fulfil children’s needs is required.

• The National Pre-School Curriculum includes all the appropriate aspects

• Communication and Language Development

• Personal competence
• Spiritual, Morality and values
• Humanity
• Physical Development and Creativity and Aesthetics
• Early science and technology include early Mathematic.

This curriculum aims to nurture an holistic

and integrated potential such as cognitive
development and creativity
 International Networking
Religious pre-schools run
i.e Montessori Syllabus or
by the opposition political
expatriate pre-school
party i.e PASTI
inclusive from primary until
tertiary

The private pre-schools are divided

into a few categories :

Ethnically-based pre-school Private pre-schools which

i.e Chinese or Indian, run have their own niche as
by individuals emphasising their brand likes using
their mother tongue English as a medium.
 LOCATION SELECTION
• The Town and Country Department states that the
location must be suitable and safe
• Not hilly, steep areas, risk of erosion, landslides or
floods or close to high tension wires and industries.
• If the kindergarten is located in commercial building, it
has to be on the ground floor or first floor.
• In flats, condominiums or service apartments in the
kindergarten has to be on the ground
• Kindergartens in these buildings have to allocate space
for an indoor playground.
 The Town and Country Planning Act 1976 (Act 172) does not allow kindergartens to be
located in residential lots, however, local authorities have given their approval on
condition the kindergarten obtains letters of consent from the current owners of
neighbouring houses within a 20-metre radius.

 If the kindergarten is located in a cul-de-sac (dead-end road), letters of consent have to

be obtained from neighbouring houses within a 200-metre range.

 For terrace houses, only corner lots are allowed.

 However, an intermediate lot next to a corner lot is allowed when both lots are occupied
by the same kindergarten. Premises must have an exit staircase or emergency door.
 Premise Selection

1. Shop Lot
• It normally be either 1 FLOOR , 2 OR 3 .
• General size of the premise will be 22’ X 75’ and
bigger if we are lucky.
• Each floor will be able to have a maximum of 4
rooms with some open space.
• Depending on the room design , each class will
range from 14.7m (accommodating 15 children)
down to 3.11m (accommodating 3 children)
 SHOP LOT
KINDERGARTEN
2. House (corner/ end lot)
A kindergarten set up in a housing area will have to
consider some items below :
- duration of the tenancy agreement
- Size of the house and rooms available
- Neighbourhood and location

All existing rooms in the house will be used as classroom

respectively. Compared to shop lots, kindergarten
operating in a house will have to use the existing rooms as
classroom
 Curriculum

TASKA (child care

Kindergarten
centres)

KSPK PERMATA
 Curriculum for Kindergarten/TADIKA

• The kindergarten MUST use the National Preschool standard Curriculum or

Kurikulum Standard Prasekolah (KSPK)
• Kids aged 5+ must have at least 4 hours per day, while pupils aged 4+ must have at
least 3 ½ hours per day, of teaching and learning (including meal breaks), 5 days a
week.
• Under the KSPK, the minimum time allocated to languages is as follows :
• Language
• Minimum time (in minutes) allocated per week for a preschool class whose
medium of instruction is :

If a preschool class has 5 or more Muslim pupils, these pupils have to

provided with at least 2 hours per week of Islamic Education by a
teacher that has been approved by the local authority. IF the
kindergarten has 5 or more pupils who are non-Muslims, these pupils
have to be provided with at least 2 hours per week of Moral Education.
• The National Preschool Standards-Based Curriculum is developed based on six
learning strands is :
– Communication,
– Spirituality, Attitudes and Values,
– Humanity,
– Personal Competence,
– Physical Development and Aesthetics,
– Science and Technology.
• These six learning strands are the main domains that complement one another and
are integrated with critical, creative and innovative thinking. The integration aims to
develop human capital that appreciates moral values based on religion, knowledge,
competence, creative and critical thinking and innovation as illustrated in Figure 1.
 Curriculum for Childcare/TASKA

• In Malaysia, early childhood care and family development is the jurisdictionof the
Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development (MWFCD).MWFCD is the
coordinator for national programs on the growth and development of children.
• Through its Department of Social Welfare, MWFCD registers all Childcare centers
(TASKA, an acronym in the local language). TASKA offers care and education for
children in the age group of 0-4 years old.
• National PERMATA Curriculum is a guideline for the early childhood care operators and
educators in Malaysia which covers aspects of education, child care, nutrition, and
health (Bahagian PERMATA, 2013).
• Child care operators and educators must ensure about their roles in enhancing the
children’s potential. To date, however, the National PERMATA Curriculum is only
implemented by government and semi-government nursery.
Types of Childcare Center

• There are various kinds of childcare centers in Malaysia, these centers are generally
named as TASKA. Categories of childcare centers found in Malaysia are as below:
– Government own childcare center (TASKA in community)(since 2006)
– Workplace childcare center
– Institutional childcare center
– Plantation childcare center
– Home based childcare center

The PERMATA Learning Area has been designed to assist children's development in
six aspects, namely:

1. LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT, COMMUNICATION AND EARLY LITERACY

2. PERSONAL, SOCIO-EMOTIONAL AND SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT
3. SENSORY DEVELOPMENT AND UNDERSTANDING THE ENVIRONMENTAL
WORLD
4. PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT
5. CREATIVITY AND AESTHETIC DEVELOPMENT
6. EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND LOGICAL THINKING
 Principle and Teachers

Your principal and teachers must be Malaysians

• The principal and teachers must have at least a Sijil

Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM)
• Diploma in Early Childhood Education, while the principal
must also have at least 3 years teaching experience in a
private educational.
• institution/kindergarten or is a retired teacher or ex-teacher.
• Some of institution/childcare centers needed Bachelor in
Early Childhood Education and experience in teaching and
learning for a be principle or teachers at least.
 Conclusion

• The overall in the topic, we will learn about the formal basis of
the institution is a document contained vision, mission,
organizational goals, organizational structure and work plan.

• We will also learn a few topic related how to manage or

setting up and administration in Early Childhood Education at
institution.