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The study aimed to examine the practices of strengthening the moral judgment that kindergarten teachers apply in Bethlehem governorate, according to (qualification, specialization, experience, and supervision). The researchers built three tools: a questionnaire consisting of (19) sections representing the methods that teachers use to strengthen the moral judgment of the children, second: Observation journal, which consists of the recording of the teacher’s responses to the moral judgment practiced by children, in different schools. Third: an interview consisting of five questions concerning the practices the teachers use to strengthen the moral judgment of the children, these tools were applied in the second semester (2018-2019). the results showed many differences in the practices the teachers used according to Their Qualifications. The observation results in kindergarten showed that encouraging to maintain the place clean, and respecting the public property had the highest percentage which was 100%, followed by applying activities that strengthen the value of respect by (73.3%), whereas the ones that wasn’t achieved are: strengthen the moral gestures for children had a percentage of (66.7%), followed by encouraging the children to illustrate the moral judgment that have been issued by (53.3%), and the sections that have been achieved to some extent were motivate the children to use desired language by (66.7%), followed by applying activities that encourage the value of honesty for children (66.3%).As for the interviews results, it has shown that most of the kindergarten teachers have never heard of the term(moral judgment) before, but they are practicing strengthen it in so many ways throughout activities, and some teachers expressed that the different backgrounds some students have and the growth features for their childhood have a great influence for the children moral issues, so teachers take actions according to the child behavior and how many times he/she repeats it, so they take advantages of morning discussion by stating the problem and how to deal with it. And the researcher recommended taking consideration in preparing developmental and training programme for the teachers, and processing the kindergarten in supplies and modern technologies that helps teachers to apply activities throughout strategies and designing an illustrated training manual for the teachers of ways to strengthen the moral Judgment. (Published abstract)