Multi-sensory activity in early childhood education: The barriers to implementation of activities by teachers

The purpose of this study was to survey the barriers to implementation of multi-sensory activities by teachers. Perception among early childhood education teachers is seen based on teachers’ responds toward the barriers in implementing multi-sensory activities in their teaching and learning process. This study is a survey study using a questionnaire and the questions were evaluated based on frequency, percentage, one-way ANOVA and T-Test. The respondents involved in this study are teachers of early childhood education in Muallim District, Perak. The total number of respondents involved is 30 teachers. The findings of the study found that the greatest barrier for teacher in the implementation of multi-sensory activities in early childhood education is lack of equipment while the least barrier faced by teacher is in term of parent opposition. Other than that, even there are not significant, but by mean score, a teacher with Bachelor Degree and Master Degree more likely facing a barriers to implementation of Multi-sensory activities. The findings also found that teachers who did not attend any courses related to multi-sensory activities faced more barrier with (M=20.85) compared to teachers who have attended related courses with (M=18.90).