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Teaching strategies developing competence to learn
Špalová, Zuzana ; Starý, Karel (advisor) ; Skýbová, Jana (referee)
Essay discusses teaching strategies to learn non-native-speaking pupils at Czech basic schools whose language competencies are not developed enough to handle common classes during the process of education. Author suggests using of special working-papers helping them to overcome the language barrier and to extend their knowledge of specific school subjects. KEYWORDS: instructional strategy, teaching methods, working-papers, non-native-speaking pupils
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Teaching styles of lower-secondary and higher-secondary school teachers of the English language
Harazimová, Kateřina ; Starý, Karel (advisor) ; Greger, David (referee)
This thesis deals primarily with teaching styles - a topic that has not been greatly discussed in Czech pedagogical literature so far. Based on both Czech and foreign sources, this paper identifies and describes in detail various aspects of teaching styles and presents several approaches to study them. Moreover, it puts the above-mentioned topic in a context of other related concepts, such as teaching method, teachers' beliefs etc. It provides an overview of several teaching styles typologies designed by mostly American authors. The empirical part introduces an original research based on both quantitative and qualitative approach. It presents a detailed study of six selected teachers of the English language and based on their responses identifies certain aspects of different teaching styles. The thesis also reveals some of their views and opinions of their profession.
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How do school principals assign teachers to classes?
Boušková, Monika ; Greger, David (advisor) ; Starý, Karel (referee)
The education system in the Czech Republic allows sorting pupils according to their abilities in the first and second level of primary school. Teachers are therefore placed to pupils in selective or non-selective classes and groups by headmasters and management of primary schools. This thesis deals with the placing of teachers to classes by headmasters and management in primary schools and aims to determine by what way and according to which criteria teachers are placed to different types of classes. The research in this thesis is supported by studies, which deal with the quality of teacher and differential education since the 60th of the 20th century. The theoretical part of the thesis focuses on the definition of terms related to differential education and studies how teachers and the teaching are viewed. The empirical part describes the research methodology of qualitative research which objective is to discover how the headmasters or management place teachers to classes, in addition what criteria are decisive for them and how they define qualities of the placed teachers. Key words: External differentiation, internal differentiation, quality of teacher, teaching approaches selective primary school, the sorting of students, abilities, Principal, the placing of teachers, selective classes,...
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Question as a part of pedagogical communication
Koukalová, Pavla ; Stará, Jana (advisor) ; Starý, Karel (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with a question as a part of educational communication. The aim of the thesis is to analyze educational dialogue at primary school with an emphasis on the function, frequency and type of teachers' and pupils' questions. The first part of the thesis explores the theoretical background of function, frequency and typology of questions. It involves also the topic of the waiting time after asking a question, identifying the pupil who should answer, the quality of pupil's answer as well as teacher's response to it. The theoretical background is complemented by research based on analyses of three video records of lessons and interviews with teachers. One of the key findings of the research is that teacher's style of questioning is determined by his conception of teaching and the aims set.
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Impact of speaking error correction on learner's self-belief
Kubalová, Kateřina ; Hanková, Zdeňka (referee) ; Starý, Karel (advisor)
The thesis titled Impact of speaking error correction on learner's self- belief deals wit error correction by the teacher during speaking activities in English language lessons and how the manner of error correction influence the students' self-belief. The thesis defines the term selfbelief and presents agents that influence self-belief. The family, peers, culture and physical and mental disposition are mentioned. Close attention is paid to the impact of the school. Another part of the thesis defines what an error is and analyzes it from the perspective of its functions, types and causes. The thesis reflects a fundamental role of the error in classroom assessment and describes different teacher responses to the error. The empirical research describes the relationship between students' self-belief and surrounding's reaction to his errors through grounded theory and brings suggestions how students perceive different ways of their error corrections.
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Formative Assessment
Poláčková, Michaela ; Slavík, Jan (referee) ; Starý, Karel (advisor)
This diploma thesis Formative Assessment deals with one form of classroom assessment focusing on frequent and interactive assessing of pupil's work. After introducing the problems concerning this issue, assessment is questioned through the view of useful feedback on pupils learning; assessment is also viewed as one of the objectives set by Framework Education Programme, included in learning competency. Formative assessment is complex throughout this work as a whole, involving a range of methods and strategies that provide for teachers and pupils better understanding of learning processes. The aim is to minimize the gap between pupil achievements and standards set by the national curriculum. Part of the text is dedicated to surveys and findings from the international study "Formative Assessment" carried out by the Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and to the key publication Assessment for Learning (P. Black, D. Wiliam.) Formative assessment is presented as a means of increasing the potential of feedback while assessing pupils work by marks. This work also presents concrete methods and strategies how to implement this form of assessment into classroom practice. Final part of this text presents empirical research of assessment of...
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Effective Instructional Strategies
Starý, Karel ; Walterová, Eliška (advisor) ; Janík, Tomáš (referee) ; Stuchlíková, Iva (referee)
The main aim of this work is to clarify the concept of educational effectiveness. In the theoretical part we first of all describe different conceptualizations of effectiveness. Then we focus on the "processual effectiveness" rather than the "result effectiveness" of the learning in lien with the Czech science literature. Searching for the optimal school instruction which engage student learning is the next step. We focus on three key factors and we try to explain their principles. In our concept an effective instruction arises when students understand and adopt the instructional objectives (setting objectives), learn actively (activity) and finally they reveal the meaning in the topic (meaningfulness). The qualitative factors mentioned above were put through the time factor and thus we tried to design a model o f the effective instruction. We identify five crucial stages of a lesson: setting objectives, activating prior knowledge, understanding the topic, retention of knowledge and concluding reflection. These stages create an effective learning cycle as a part of a learning spiral. For every stage we give some examples of particular instructional strategies and methods. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Effective Instructional Strategies
Starý, Karel
The main aim of this work is to clarify the concept of educational effectiveness. In the theoretical part we first of all describe different conceptualizations of effectiveness. Then we focus on the "processual effectiveness" rather than the "result effectiveness" of the learning in lien with the Czech science literature. Searching for the optimal school instruction which engage student learning is the next step. We focus on three key factors and we try to explain their principles. In our concept an effective instruction arises when students understand and adopt the instructional objectives (setting objectives), learn actively (activity) and finally they reveal the meaning in the topic (meaningfulness). The qualitative factors mentioned above were put through the time factor and thus we tried to design a model o f the effective instruction. We identify five crucial stages of a lesson: setting objectives, activating prior knowledge, understanding the topic, retention of knowledge and concluding reflection. These stages create an effective learning cycle as a part of a learning spiral. For every stage we give some examples of particular instructional strategies and methods. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Personal management of university students
Dejmalová, Lenka ; Starý, Karel (advisor) ; Šebková, Helena (referee) ; Matošková, Jana (referee)
The aim of the thesis is to explore the first-year undergraduates' strategies of self-management. The thesis contains the theoretical and empirical part. The theoretical part deals with the transformation of higher education in Europe and in the Czech Republic followed by the changes in the university student career and lifestyle. Special attention is devoted to university socialization, the personality of the university student and their new roles. The next chapter of the theoretical part presents the concepts of personal management and academic self-management. Effective and successful university study and personal strategies of self-management then appear to be interdependent. The aim of the qualitative research is to explore and describe how the first-year students organize their study. Firstly, the content analysis of selected study plans was carried out and the orientation questionnaire survey was conducted among 165 first-year students at the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen. Later, also other methods were applied: the diary of study week and electronic interviews. The data were analysed through open coding and thematic coding. Two basic types of students were distinguished based on the dominant out-of-class activities and the diversity of tendencies in independent...
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The use of unmanned aerial vehicles in agriculture.
Starý, Karel ; Kroulík, Milan (advisor) ; Petrásek, Stanislav (referee)
Unmanned aerial vehicles has been a fast developing field over the last couple of years Farmers have been trying to take profit from this development and are interested in various options of applications. Demands on the area of agricultural production have been increasing, especially higher effectivity and the economical aspect of production are in focus. Farmers seek for the information about crop statuses and cattle in pursuit of economical rentability and enviromental sustainability. Due to this awareness farmers can take measures to reach economical profit. In the form of literature review the thesis describes construction types, their power options and the suitability for particular application is evaluated. Furthermore, scanning varieties and particular examples of applications are mentioned.
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