This study assessed government commitment in fulfilling its obligations in ensuring quality early childhood education (ECE) as outlined in the National Policy on Education; examined the teaching strategies that teachers employed to ensure appropriate teaching and learning process; and assessed the challenges associated to teaching strategies used by teachers. A descriptive survey design was used. The population consisted of all ECE teachers and proprietors/proprietress. The sample comprised 150 teachers and 30 proprietors/proprietress of both public and private primary schools selected from two southwestern states of Nigeria using simple random sampling technique based on the availability of ECE class(es) in the study area. An instrument entitled “Government Commitment and Teaching Strategy for Effective Quality Early Childhood Education (GCTSQECE) was validated and used for data collection. The instrument has two sections with section A focusing on the demographic data of the participants while section B focused on governments involvement and teaching strategies employed by ECE teachers in having effective quality early childhood education. The instrument was validated using internal consistency while the Cronbach α reliability test coefficient of the GCTSQECE was 0.76. The data collected were analyzed using frequency and simple percentage. Results showed that there are not enough ECE professionals, few ECE departments in the universities, poor remuneration of teachers and that teachers employed the use of appropriate teaching strategies and improvised in most cases. It is therefore recommended that government should promote and support the training of teachers and implement ECE policy in primary schools.

本研究评估了政府在履行《国家教育政策》中概述的确保优质幼儿教育 (ECE) 义务方面的承诺；检查教师为确保适当的教学和学习过程而采用的教学策略；并评估了与教师使用的教学策略相关的挑战。使用了描述性调查设计。人口包括所有儿童早教教师和业主/老板娘。样本包括 150 名教师和 30 名来自尼日利亚西南部两个州的公立和私立小学的业主/业主，使用简单的随机抽样技术基于研究区域的 ECE 班级的可用性。一项题为“有效优质幼儿教育的政府承诺和教学策略（GCTSQECE）”的工具得到验证并用于数据收集。该工具有两个部分，A 部分侧重于参与者的人口统计数据，而 B 部分侧重于政府参与和 ECE 教师在提供有效的优质幼儿教育方面所采用的教学策略。该工具使用内部一致性进行验证，而 GCTSQECE 的 Cronbach α 信度检验系数为 0.76。使用频率和简单百分比分析收集的数据。结果表明，ECE专业人才不足，大学ECE部门少，教师的报酬很低，而且教师在大多数情况下采用了适当的教学策略并即兴发挥。因此，建议政府应促进和支持教师的培训，并在小学实施幼儿教育政策。