Teachers’ Perspective On Guidance and Counseling Best Practices in Islamic
Early Childhood Education. Guidance and counseling services primarily aim to anticipate any
potential misbehavior at the Early Childhood Education (ECE) level. Hence, it is necessary to
design a comprehensive model of guidance and counseling which is philosophically, contextually,
empirically, and culturally suit Indonesian system of formal education. The present study served
as one of basic research which is attempted to depict early childhood teachers and educators’
perspectives on the implementation of guidance and counseling services in Islamic early
childhood education, represented by Raudhatul Athfal (RA) and Islamic Kindergarten (IK).
Exploratory research method was applied by involving early childhood educators from eight RA
and IK in Serang City. The data were collected using an open ended questionnaire, observation,
interview, as well as documentation study, and analyzed using the interactive analysis model. The
findings indicated that, in general, although participants in this study considered guidance and
counseling services important for preschool children, they had not understood the best practice of
the services in Islamic early childhood education. Following the findings, a perceived ideal
guidance and counseling model that suitable for the Islamic early childhood education is the
model which is based on Islamic values derived from Al Quran and Al Hadith.
Keywords: guidance and counseling, Islamic early childhood education