Learning From Home in Early Childhood Education Students

Abstract

The study aims to investigate the responses of parents who have early childhood while accompanying children to learn from home during the Covid-19 pandemic in accordance with the government policies regarding learning from home. The research method was carried out by a survey through Google form that was that was filled in by parents of PAUD Dellia Creative School students in Bengkulu City, with a child age range of 2 years 10 months up to 6 years 2 months. The data collection technique used was a questionnaire. The questionnaire was distributed from September 28 th , 2020 to October, 12 nd , 2020. The questionnaire was distributed to 38 respondents containing 6 questions about the problems of parents in guiding children to study at home. The survey results show that 81.6% of parents feel that the Home Learning policy for PAUD children is difficult, 86.8% do not understand the right methods to assist children to learn, 81.6% do not have facilities for learning, 84.2% are difficult in motivating the children to learn, 65.8% prioritizing children in higher education, and 55.3% availability of time to guide children to study at home. This condition is likely to continue as long as learning is carried out at home online in accordance with government policy.