Arab Educational Information Network

The current research aims to know the extent of the availability of some life skills in the content of the kindergarten teacher's guide to implement the integrated experiences curriculum for the kindergarten stage, age group (5-6 years) in the Republic of Yemen. The researcher has prepared a list of life skills that have to be available in the content of the guide, and it is necessary to provide them for the kindergarten child. To achieve the aim of the research, the researcher prepared the research tool represented by the analysis form in the light of life skills, which consisted of four main areas: the field of linguistic skills "linguistic communication", the field of social skills, the field of independence skills, and the field of emotional expression skills. They included (23) sub-skills, and the objective control of the tool has been performed. The researcher used the descriptive analytical approach based on the method of content analysis, considering the item as the unit of analysis, as well as the statistical methods represented by repetitions and percentages to answer the research question, and Holisti equation to calculate the percentage of agreement between the first and second analyses of the researcher. Thus, the research resulted in the following results: 1) The content of the guide focuses very highly on cognitive life skills, at a rate of (100%). 2) Lack of balance in the distribution of social life skills in the content of the guide. 3) The percentage of independent life skills is very low in the content of the guide. 4) Most life skills are included superficially and indirectly. Based on the results reached, the current research made a number of recommendations and the most important of them are: 1) Including the independent life skills mentioned in the list and not covered in the content of the kindergarten teacher's guide for the third age group (5-6). 2) Addressing the necessary life skills for a kindergarten child mainly and directly. 3) Achieving a balance in dealing with life skills in the content of the guide. 4) Enhancing the content of kindergarten teachers’ guides for the three age groups (3-4), (4-5) and (5-6) with the necessary life skills for each child of each age group separately, and in a manner consistent with its developmental characteristics. (Published abstract)