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Key Decision-making Processes in Creating School and Implementing the School Curriculum
Voda, Jan ; Spilková, Vladimíra (advisor) ; Walterová, Eliška (referee) ; Uhlířová, Jana (referee)
The Key Decision-making Processes in Creating School and Implementing the School Curriculum The thesis focuses on the role of a teacher in his/her triple position. Each of these roles provides a piece of inspiration for reflection on the internal school transformation, both on theoretical and empirical level. The first one regards the role of a teacher as an experimenter. Our study balances the possibilities and limits of the experimental approach with regard to the condition of teacher's high degree of personal engagement and also the social context. From the other perspective, we observe a teacher as bearer of school quality. This is conditioned by the adoption of a creative role in the transformation effort in which teachers have to demonstrate their willingness and ability to change the current school with regard to the newly- conceived paradigm in education. Finally, the third point of view follows the teacher as a creator of the curriculum and school. In terms of Czech education teachers must deal with the complexity of a new professional situation which stems from an innovative, experimental nature of the School Educational Program making-process. In this process they make decisions according to which values and goals they accent in their pedagogical work. The research part of the thesis...
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Waldorf Approach to Teaching Foreign Languages
Dvořáková, Kateřina ; Spilková, Vladimíra (advisor) ; Ries, Lumír (referee) ; Betáková, Lucie (referee)
12. SUMMARY This dissertation, titled The Waldorf Approach to Teaching Foreign Languages, deals with the methodology of foreign-language teaching used at Waldorf (Steiner) schools with a particular focus on young learners aged 6 to 10. Its main aim is to present and explore how foreign languages are taught in this pedagogical system with over ninety years of worldwide experience in incorporating two foreign languages into a primary curriculum from the first class onwards. The choice of the topic was determined by the following factors: 1) Even though Waldorf pedagogy has been the subject of numerous scholarly works in the Czech Republic since 1989, there are no studies specifically treating the theme of foreign-language teaching. 2) Books about the Waldorf approach to teaching foreign languages are largely written in German, and on the whole they are not easily accessible. In addition to this general lack of resources, the available materials contain mostly information about the content and expected outcomes for each school year and suggestions for concrete activities, but there is no systematic and thorough description of the methodological background to foreign-language teaching. 3) The Waldorf methodology deeply rooted in the humanistic tradition could be a stimulating and thought-provoking incentive for...
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Professional standard in the improvement of the teaching profession
Suchánková, Květa ; Vašutová, Jaroslava (advisor) ; Spilková, Vladimíra (referee) ; Urbánek, Petr (referee)
Many documents dealing with education policy consider professional standard one possible type of teachers' work stimulation. The absence of a document of this type is increasingly being felt in Czech educational environment. How can we support teacher's work in present conditions so that it reaches the highest possible quality? One of the possible solutions is to approach professional standard as a set of quality criteria and indicators that can be used in evaluation. This thesis develops an evaluation strategy using a professional standard that has been specified based on educational goals and objectives and school functions. By connecting quality indicators defined in the aforesaid standard with the components of teacher's professional behaviour (4 I) this thesis has developed an original evaluation strategy focused on teachers' work support. At creation of the evaluation strategy, proposed professional standards are utilised as a formative conception; they may serve namely to specify criteria of teacher's quality. The main purpose of the standards lies in formulation of qualification requirements for entering the profession; however, this specification also allows us to conceive the term of "above standard". The basic methods of the evaluation strategy include: case study, monitoring, interview, content...
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Issues of Gifted Education in the Teacher Training for Primary School
Krčmářová, Tereza ; Spilková, Vladimíra (advisor) ; Tomková, Anna (referee) ; Hříbková, Lenka (referee)
The thesis deals with issues related to implementation of the topic of gifted education into teacher training for primary schools. In the theoretical part of this thesis are prepared on the basis of scientific literature the most important findings concerning the theory and the concept of talent. Main attention is paid to personality of gifted child in preschool and primary school age, their identification, specific forms of behavior and potential problems. Following are summarized basic organizational forms, strategies and models of gifted education. Given the current trend of integration of pupils with special educational needs, the thesis focus on education of gifted students in regular classrooms. In the next section are described the specifics of development and state of the system of care for gifted pupils in the Czech Republic. The final chapter is devoted to issues of personality and teacher education. The aim of the research part of this thesis is in the action research based on the planning, re-implementation and evaluation of actual teaching to create unique design of course focused on issues of highly able pupils as part of teacher training for primary schools at the Faculty of Education, Charles University.
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Assessment and self-assessment through a pupils's portfolio at primary education
Manochová, Eva ; Spilková, Vladimíra (advisor) ; Krčmářová, Tereza (referee)
The diploma thesis is of a theoretical-research nature. The theoretical part deals with an innovative school assessment approach which is required by the current conception of the primary education. The attention is paid to the innovative forms of assessment, especially to the self-assessment and the pupil's portfolio. The aims, the research questions and the methods of the exploration are formulated in the research part. There is a presentation of the results of the research, which was focused on the pupil's portfolio as a means of assessment and self-assessment in the conception of several primary education teachers. The options as well as the difficulties of the portfolio assessment are presented. The final product of the thesis is a summary of recommendations for primary education teachers who would like to start to apply the pupil's portfolio in their teaching practice. Keywords: innovative assessment self-assessment pupil's portfolio authentic assessment feedback primary education
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Selected attributes of a contemporary primary school from the perspective of demands of school reform
Voda, Jan ; Spilková, Vladimíra (referee)
Magdalény Rettigové 4, 116 39 Praha 1 tel.: +420 221 900 111 www.pedf.cuni.cz IČ 00216208 DIČ CZ00216208 Dle čl. 4 Opatření rektora č. 6/2010 o Zpřístupnění elektronické databáze závěrečných prací http://www.cuni.cz/UK-3470.html a čl. 1 Opatření děkana 17/2010 se z časového hlediska závěrečné práce dělí do tří skupin: a. "nové práce", tj. práce odevzdávané k obhajobě počínaje 29. 9. 2010, b. "starší práce", tj. práce odevzdané k obhajobě od 1. 1. 2006 do 28. 9. 2010, c. "práce před rokem 2006", tj. práce odevzdané k obhajobě před 1. 1. 2006. V tomto případě jde o "starší práci" odevzdanou k obhajobě od 1. 1. 2006 do 28. 9. 2010. Omlouváme se, ale dokument není k dispozici.
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Project teaching as a way of integration of education contents
Dvořáková, Markéta ; Skalková Jarmila, (advisor) ; Spilková, Vladimíra (referee) ; Kolář, Zdeněk (referee)
The general objective of the thesis is to investigate the possibilities of integration of education contents in project teaching from the theoretic viewpoint as well from the point of the current school practice. The thesis is drawn up as both theoretical and empirical. It processes historical resources and current literature and analyses the present teaching practice on the secondary level of primary schools. The thesis is divided into three basic parts: History of project teaching, present project teaching, and recommendation for didactic transformation of the curriculum. A significant look at project teaching was taken by the Czech theoretical and practical reform pedagogy in the 20s and 30s of the twentieth century. Various approaches to project teaching are described in project typology. In the current theory, project teaching is understood as one of the ways of approaching the goals of contemporary schooling. Project teaching is a suitable didactic means of meaningful integration of education contents. The primary bearer of integration of education contents is a complex problem which is the result of a life situation and which requires natural utilisation of knowledge from various fields. The key to the practical integration of education contents is the creation of a product and the need for its...
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Problems Faced by Contemporary Starting-out Teachers in the Lower Grades of Primary Schools
Vinčálková, Alena ; Spilková, Vladimíra (advisor) ; Kargerová, Jana (referee)
V životě každého člověka se vyskytne mnoho cest, kterými se může dát. Každý z nás si vybírá svou cestu, pro sebe nejschůdnější, podle svého naturelu a v kontextu nastávajících životních situací, a také podle toho, jací lidé nás obklopují. Všichni máme rodiče, příbuzné, přátele, kamarády, známé, spolužáky, spolupracovníky, idoly, vzory, učitele... Tito lidé nás zároveň nějakým způsobem ovlivňují. Setkávání snimi nás mění, ale určitě mění i ty druhé. Ovlivňujeme se tedy navzájem. Každý člověk je naprosto neopakovatelná osobnost, ke které nikde na světě neexistuje identický duplikát. Na svých cestách tedy můžeme potkat mnoho lidí a máme tu jedinečnou možnost se od sebe navzájem mnohému naučit. Jak už jsem se zmínila, setkání s lidmi nás mění. Někteří nás promění nepatrně, v podstatě velmi málo. Existují ale lidé, jež nás mění poměrně ve velké míře. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Options to predict the readiness of pre-school children for reading and writing instruction
Havlisová, Helena ; Spilková, Vladimíra (advisor) ; Wildová, Radka (referee) ; Kocurová, Marie (referee)
Disertační práce je zaměřena na problematiku časné diagnostiky předpokladů ke čtení a psaní u dětí v předškolním věku. Zvolené téma je zpracováno zejména v kontextu prevence raných učebních obtíží . Teoretická část práce reflektuje některé základní aspekty a činitele ovlivňujíc! čteni a psáni , rozebírá významné okolnosti brzdicí nebo naopak facilitujíci jejich rozvoj , diskutuje především otázky předpokladů ke čtení a psaní a možnosti jejich poznávání . V empirické části práce jsou kvantitativně i kvalitativně analyzovány výsledky výzkumu zaměřeného na ověřováni vlastnosti standardizované screeningové zkoušky Testu rizika Poruch čteni a psaní pro rané školáky v populaci předškolních dětí ve věku 5,5 - 6,0 let a tím i ověřování možnosti jeho Využitelnosti pro diagnostiku připravenosti ke čteni a psáni u Předškolních dětí . Závěry výzkumu vyznívají ve prospěch využitelnosti tohoto nástroje po navržených úpravách , je konstatován jeho přínos i v pedagogické praxi . Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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