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A Review of The Effect of Nutritional Status on Gross Motor Skills of Early Childhood Ishud, Nurul Kinanti; Romadona, Nur Faizah
International Conference on Elementary Education Vol. 2 No. 1 (2020): Proceedings The 2nd International Conference on Elementary Education
Publisher : Elementary Education Study Program School of Postgraduate Studies Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia in collaboration with UPI PRESS

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Nutrition is an essential factor for children’s development. Nutrition is substances in food that the body needs to function properly. Adequate nutrition is essential for growth, health, and development of children. Nutritional status is a measurement of a person’s body condition that can be seen from the food consumption and the use of nutrients in the body, or the physiological state of an individual, which resulted from the relationship between nutrient intake and requirements and from the body’s ability to digest, absorb, and use the nutrients. The purpose of this research is to investigate the effect of nutritional status on gross motor skills development in early childhood. During the early childhood period, the child is vulnerable to the problem of nutritional status or malnutrition/obesity, which affect proper growth and development as well as day-to-day physical and mental functions. If the children miss the opportunities of normal development due to influences of environmental factors, they undergo the risk of future retardation. The undernourished children decrease their activity levels and they will become more apathetic. This in turn affects their social interactions and cognitive functioning. The nutritional status will be determined using weight and height measurements and the age of the children. The test of gross motor development for preschool by Ulrich (2000) is the tool used for measuring the gross motor skills
Teaching Good Character in Early Childhood Education through Construction Activites and Dramatic Play Romadona, Nur Faizah; Setiasih, Ocih; Syaodih, Ernawulan
International Conference on Elementary Education Vol. 2 No. 1 (2020): Proceedings The 2nd International Conference on Elementary Education
Publisher : Elementary Education Study Program School of Postgraduate Studies Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia in collaboration with UPI PRESS

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Character values are believed to be solid roots in supporting the integrity of the nation and state. The collapse of a country is resulted by the weakening of the character's values in the life of the people. The Ministry of National Education implements character education at all levels of education, including in Early Childhood Education. Developing Children”s characters is an obligation on us all, including parents and teacher. Parents are the primary educators of character, but empirically research shows that all adults who have contact with their children need to contribute to such education, especially their children’s teachers. School has more influence later than parenting because of parents are much more emotionally salient in the first years of life, and many children do not experience full or even paart-time schooling until they are three, four or five years of age, when many aspect of character are already developing. In kindergarten, teacher can develop some values of character through learning, such as construction activities in a group and dramatic play. Construction activities involves manipulating one or multiple elements of the play environmet to construct something new. Dramatic play can be defined as a type of play where children accept and assign roles, and then act them out. In dramatic play, children negotiate and refine their growing understanding by consulting with other children and the teacher. Therefore, through construction activities and dramatic play, teacher can develop some values character such as discipline, tolerance, self-confidence, self-reliance, creative, helping others, cooperation, responsibility, hard-working and leadership