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Drama education as the motivation to read
Kratochvilová, Veronika ; Ferklová, Alžběta (advisor) ; Hanyš Holemá, Irena (referee)
Thesis called Drama education as the motivation to read deals with the tight linking of drama education and literature. Literature is used as the scheme for drama education in lessons and, thanks to the story, pupils are developed both in the area of drama and personality as well as in social. Moreover, due to its methods, techniques and topics, it manages to motivate pupils to read given books. Theoretical part of the thesis focuses on the crucial aims, methods, techniques, curricula, forms and the usage of the drama education at primary schools and, especially, its involvement into the framework educational programme. It also deals with the relationship in between drama education and literature and about choosing convenient literature for a particular lesson. General literacy, reading literacy and inner or outer factors influencing children's relationship to books are also investigated topics in the study. The three different types of book usage and the level of pupils' motivation is the core of the analytical part of the thesis. Books are "introduced" to pupils via the drama education lessons. The three specific modules of lessons - based on working with books - were created to help the introduction of the books in drama education. Furthermore a book is introduced by reading an excerpt of it and...
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Ideas of lower secondary pupils related to the content of the curriculum focused on viruses and the ways of their transmission, expressed through a verbal description and drawing
ZÍKOVÁ, Eva
The aim of this thesis was to investigate the perceptions of primary school pupils about viruses and viral infection, both through verbal description and the use of drawings. A part of the thesis was to create a teaching unit based on critical thinking and working with text to develop pupils' constructs about viral issues. The review of the literature focuses on the definition of viruses and viral infection, and the topic of viruses in curriculum documents is introduced, complemented by an analysis of selected science textbooks. Part of the literature review is devoted to teaching methods, with an emphasis on working with text, as this method was used in the research investigation. The research itself was carried out in two primary schools through a questionnaire survey (in the form of a pretest and a posttest) combined with the implementation of the designed teaching unit. The results were then extended with information obtained from interviews with selected pupils. The results of the questionnaire survey showed that the pupils in the study sample had only a rough idea mainly about viruses and had significant difficulties in describing viral infection. After the implementation of the teaching unit, the pupils achieved better results. The teaching unit helped them better express the characteristics of the virus and the viral infection. Interviews with selected pupils confirmed these results, as it appeared that pupils were already able to describe the course of the viral infection in their own words.
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Work with Texts of Liberec Region Authors on the Lower Secondary School
Čvančarová, Barbora ; Hník, Ondřej (advisor) ; Hausenblas, Ondřej (referee)
Résumé It is eight years ago when a new system of curriculum documents was approved and when teachers were given opportunity of their own choice in lesson planning and lesson management. Unfortunately, this change in approach to education cannot be seen in all teachers. In lessons, there is still a method of work with texts when a teacher requires only one particular respond to his question "What did the author want to express in the text?" and it is the respond he personally thinks is correct. In that case pupils are not motivated suitably to think about the text and to discuss it. They are impoverished in more intensive experiences from the text and they also miss follow-up activities which might encourage their interest in the work, the author and reading generally. Due to these reasons projects presented in this thesis aroused. This work offers to teachers from basic schools in Liberec area ready-made projects which relate thematically to Liberec region because authors of the texts act in this region. All the projects contain methodology instructions, which means a summarizing table (time requirement of activities, aids, methods), a step-by-step procedure instruction, texts to be worked with and also ready- made worksheets. Authors and texts are chosen in a way that pupils can be introduced to a variety...
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Life situations in literature. Worksheets for ninth grade of secondary schools
Kočová, Veronika ; Hník, Ondřej (advisor) ; Zimová, Lucie (referee)
The possible approach towards the teaching of literature at the 9th grade level of primary education is the central topic of this thesis. The main idea is to base literature teaching on a system of working sheets, which relate to extracts from 4 selected books. These books have a common theme; real-life situations relevant to students of the 9th grade. Such theme has been preselected on the author's perception that students are becoming less in contact with the literary world, thus seeking a path to bring students closer to it. The goal is to show pupils the relevance and practical use of literature, with the use of diverse tasks and assignments and to convince them that reading may be entertaining as well as educating. A specific characteristic of the thesis is the fact that the research has been carried out in a given classroom at one of Prague's primary schools, where the author teaches Czech Language and Literature. Therefore, a key element of the thesis is the discussion of first hand findings and lessons-learned during these lessons. On the basis of the working sheet system trial results in class, this method proves to be efficient. Students reacted positively to the learning system and the text excerpts allowed them to complete literary tasks and also to discuss the described real-life situations...
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Methods Activating Students in Education of Chemistry
Kesnerová Řádková, Olga ; Bílek, Martin (advisor) ; Klečková, Marta (referee) ; Dobrovská, Dana (referee)
Topic: Methods of Activating Students in Education of Chemistry Author: Olga Kesnerová Řádková Abstract This dissertation work aims at teaching methods in the subject of chemistry and it concentrates mainly on methods with quite a high proportion of activation of pupils. The benefits and disadvantages of activating teaching methods, possible criteria for their choice, conditions for their putting into practice and similar, are described. Later, the work focuses on four chosen activating methods, namely brainstorming methods, project method, didactic games and work with a fictional and another type of a text which is applied here into natural science teaching, namely into chemistry teaching. A story with a chemical experiment can serve as an example. The research part contains a case study of putting project teaching methods into practice which includes a record and analysis of the condition and of the problem connected with its implementation, as well as the initiation of the project with the help of brainstorming methods. Participation observing, questionnaires, mini polls and discussions were used in our case study. Altogether 184 second year students for the teaching profession of the Pedagogical Faculty of Hradec Králové University took part in the research. On the basis of the results of the research...
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Work with text in Biology Teaching
Rezková, Gréta ; Pavlasová, Lenka (advisor) ; Skýbová, Jana (referee)
This thesis deals with the issue of working with text in biology lessons at primary schools. The aim of this work is to determine the ability of pupils to analyze text materials and to work with them in different ways. In the research part of the thesis were created texts for teaching pupils at the 2nd level of primary school and the following 8 tasks. Tasks were given to pupils (n=75) in grades 6, 7 and 8 at different stages of the lessons. The tasks were subsequently evaluated and the student's ability to solve the problem was assessed on the basis of the results. In six assignments, pupils had a higher success rate then 70%, while only two had less than 45%. Research results have shown that the ability of pupils to understand and work with text is good. It has also been found out which methods are amiss and how to adjust the tasks. Key words Work with text, teaching of biology, didactics of biology, teaching methods
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Fantasy Genre of the Eleven Years old Readers
Končelová, Jitka ; Hník, Ondřej (advisor) ; Klumparová, Štěpánka (referee)
In her thesis Fantasy Genre of the Eleven Years Old Readers the author is concerned with the education of fantasy category for 11 years old pupils, respectively for the fifth year of the primary school. Centre of work consists in practical part, where the author comments and reflects her suggestions of past lectures based on extracts from fantasy books. She indicates how to interpose fantasy genre to students in literary education, for them to be able to gradually disclose and understand the meaning of the text (process of discovery and creation), share and evaluate important thoughts arising from it and subsequently apply these in real life. Apart from that are some accomplished plans of her lectures, directed also towards personality and social development of the individuals. Keywords Literary educations, fantasy genre, work with text, 11 years old pupils, literature for children, reading education.
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Making use of Povídky malostranské in teaching literature at elementary school
Kalátová, Anna ; Klumparová, Štěpánka (advisor) ; Hausenblas, Ondřej (referee)
The first part of the thesis presents didactically transformed interpretation about Jan Neruda, his life and work, and about Povídky malostranské as a part of the complex. There is general information about the cycle of short stories. The process of creating of this work and also the themes are outlined here (distinctive features of Povídky malostranské), which could be used at school. Lessons can be focused on the characters, narrative style, or spacetime. In the following chapters there are the basic facts about Czech pubescent readers, the evaluation of structured interviews with primary school teachers about their experiences and the way how to work with Povídky malostranské there is summarized knowledge about the way how the authors handle the topic of Povídky malostranské of reading-books. The three model lessons based on the working with the texts (each lesson is focused on one of the distinctive features of this work) are the important part of this thesis. These lessons were taught at elementary school, therefore they are provided with the evaluation.
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