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Dynamic approach to Educational and Psychological assessment and Intervation in Kindergarten.
Krejčová, Kristýna ; Šírová, Eva (advisor) ; Kucharská, Anna (referee) ; Hříbková, Lenka (referee)
Dynamic assessment constitutes an alternative diagnostic approach, focused on revelation of the tested person's learning potential, which is reached and observed via the emphasis on the process of the achievement. It aims at meaningful connection with the intervention that immediately makes use of diagnostic findings to support the development of an individual's abilities. This work summarizes essential information about the mentioned diagnostic trend - its characteristic, a definition compared to conventional ways of testing and historical development. It investigates some possibilities of its utilization, especially in the area of preschool diagnostic and education, and creates a basis for an instrument of the effective prevention of educational and behavioural difficulties during the first years of the school attendance.
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Aspects of Reading and Writing Skills in Pre-school children
ŽÁKOVÁ, Alena
The topic of the bachelor thesis is pre-reading literacy. The theoretical part focuses on pre-school education, pre-school child and the readiness and maturity for entering primary school. The practical part focuses on establishing the level of literacy skills for reading and writing, possibly more developed reading skills, and on strengthening hygiene habits in children in the last year of kindergarten. The research was conducted through observation and interviews with kindergarten children and teachers.
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School maturity and postponement of school attendance and speech disorders
Hamplová, Nikola ; Komorná, Marie (advisor) ; Kotvová, Miroslava (referee)
The diploma thesis deals with the issue of school maturity, the communication level of preschool children and the postponement of school attendance from the point of view of speech therapy and school counseling facilities. The theoretical part contains three chapters devoted to topics necessary for defining the qualification work. The content of the first chapter is an introduction to the theoretical framework of communication and child development from birth to preschool age with a primary focus on speech development. The second chapter defines impaired communication ability from the general basis to the specifics of communication of children in preschool and younger school age. The third chapter analyzes the support of preschool children's communication skills, the area of school readiness with the examination of school maturity in a pedagogical-psychological counseling center and postponement of school attendance. In the practical part, the methodology of qualitative research and the research investigation itself are presented. From a methodological point of view, we worked with the analysis of data obtained through semi-structured interviews with a clinical speech therapist, a child psychologist and a special pedagogue from a pedagogical-psychological consultancy. Another research approach is...
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Development of children's communication skills as a part of school maturity and readiness during COVID-19 pandemic
Marková, Kristýna ; Klenková, Jiřina (advisor) ; Horynová, Jana (referee)
This thesis addresses preschool education in the COVID-19 pandemic from a speech therapy perspective. The aim was to determine whether the pandemic affects the development of communication skills in children's school maturity and readiness. For the research, a quantitative method was used. A sample of 50 respondents from kindergartens in the Vysočina region completed a self-administered questionnaire to provide data for this work. The research sample was teachers of children with compulsory school attendance. The research found that the number of deferrals of compulsory school attendance is higher in the school year 2020/2021 than in previous years. The root causes cited by the respondents were psychological immaturity, including impaired communication skills. It was also found that for more than half of the respondents, children in the classroom have the same difficulties in communication skills as in previous years, yet 92% of teachers admitted that the educational objectives in the field of communication, according to the Framework Education Programme for Preschool Education, were not met in the 2020/2021 school year. According to the respondents, children most often had difficulties pronouncing the L, R, and Ř syllables, spontaneous narration according to a picture, the formation of sentences,...
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Decision - making process of parents in the field of postponing the compulsory school attendance
Svobodová, Zuzana ; Greger, David (advisor) ; Kucharská, Anna (referee) ; Rašková, Miluše (referee)
This dissertation describes the decision-making process of parents in the field of postponing the compulsory school attendance or starting it on schedule. The qualitative research is based on an aggregate of 41 semi-structured interviews with parents and two focus groups, completed by subsequent observations and interviews with parents and teachers. The research goal consisted in illuminating the background of the high number of postponements in the Czech Republic, where every year about 20 % of children start in the first class a year later. The dissertation also provides insight on this topic in a comparative perspective and analyzes the initiation of compulsory education in selected European countries. The research results presented in the form of an established theory document that parents' decisions are based primarily on the needs of the family and especially of the need to be a good parent. The decision making is influenced also by the parents' attitude to the delay which has also impact on the weight being attached to other factors of the decision-making process, such as school maturity and individual areas of school readiness as well as the month of birth. During the decision-making process the experience of parents with enrolment in the first grade plays an important role as well. The...
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DEVELOPMENT OF PHONEMATIC AWARENESS IN KINDERGARTEN
Lodlová, Zdeňka ; Nováková Schöffelová, Miroslava (advisor) ; Viktorová, Ida (referee)
The thesis focuses on the development of pre-reading literacy in preschool education, specifically, the development of phonological awareness using the Elkonin method adapted for the needs of kindergartens. Phonological awareness is "the ability to be aware of the phonological structure of speech, which includes an awareness of syllables in words, rhymes, and individual sounds of speech, i.e. phonemes." (Nováková et al., 2020, p. 23) This ability is a component of school maturity and readiness, and a good level of this skill is crucial for seamlessly emulating reading and writing in the first stage of elementary school. The theoretical part of the thesis presents a basic definition of the legal norms of preschool education and the Framework Educational Programme in relation to pre-reading literacy. It also introduces the development of preschool children as well as the issue of school ripeness and readiness. The empirical part deals with research related to piloting the emerging modification of the Elkonin method for use in kindergartens. The aim of the research is to verify whether the new regulation of Language Skills Training based on the method developed by D. B. Elkonin is suitable for working with a group of preschool children in kindergarten and whether it develops phonematic awareness and...
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Use of the child's portfolio when enrolling in primary school
Hotová, Jana ; Koželuhová, Eva (advisor) ; Hejlová, Helena (referee)
The diploma thesis is focused on the topic of using of children's portfolios, but especially focuses on children's portfolios as a possible diagnostic tool when enrolling in primary schools. The main goal of the diploma thesis is to find out what are the possibilities of using children's portfolios when enrolling in the first class and how teachers view the possibility of using children's portfolios when enrolling in the first years of basic education. The theoretical part of the thesis focuses on the topics of the child's transition from kindergarten to basic education, the implementation of enrollment in primary school in the past and today, as well as school maturity and preparedness. Children's portfolio, its creation and use in kindergarten represents another possibility and way of using children's portfolio outside kindergarten, especially as a diagnostic tool for determining school maturity and preparedness in the process of enrolling children in primary education. The empirical part is conducted as a quantitative research survey using the research methods of a questionnaire survey in order to answer the main research question: "What are the possibilities of using children's portfolio when enrolling in the first classes?". The result of the diploma thesis is a proposal of he content of the...
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Possibility of development of visual perception for children in preparatory class at primary school
Fečková, Kateřina ; Felcmanová, Lenka (advisor) ; Klenková, Jiřina (referee)
The diploma thesis Possibilities of Development of Visual Perception in Preparatory Class deals with how to contribute as much as possible to the work of a teacher in pre-school education to the readiness of children to enter primary school in the field of visual perception. In its theoretical part thesis contains the characterictics of pre-school age, school maturity and readiness and the area of education of children in pre-school age. The aim of practical part is to find out whether the implementation of regular stimulation of visual perception leads to its development. The research was carried out in two preparatory classes of elementary schools throught Test of Visual Perception and Set of Worksheets for the Development os Visual Perception. KEYWORDS: pre-school age, preparatory class, school maturity and readiness, visual perception, stimulation
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Possibilities of the development of preschool children in a asylum homes
Miladinovićová, Martina ; Felcmanová, Lenka (advisor) ; Němec, Zbyněk (referee)
This Diploma Thesis is designed as a case study based on qualitative research focusing on searching the options of support on pre-school children development in the environment of shelters for mothers or families with children. In the theoretical part starting points are presented regarding the issues of family, shelter, school maturity and readiness as well as an issue of constituent functions, possibilities of their diagnostics and development. The initial part of the empiric part describes methodological processes and a research plan is presented. Followed by research report regarding the study in twelve shelters in Prague. One of the research goals was to design a simple manual of development for children aged 3-6 which might have been used as a support for social workers in those shelters. The research tools included questionnaires and interviews among social workers. The questionnaires helped to map the size of shelters, length of stay and characteristic of their clients, approach of institutions to the development of pre-school and school age children as well as the attitudes of social workers towards such development of pre-school children. Interviews with social workers assisted with orientation in the issue of families in shelter, semi-structured interview allowed a feedback from the...
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