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Learning styles of future Biology teachers and scientists
MALEČKOVÁ, Michaela
The diploma thesis deals with the topic of learning styles. The literature review describes the teaching and its conceptions, it works with the term of the teaching methods. The literature review characterizes teaching methods mostly used in biology education. Furthermore, the literature review explains the learning process, the approaches to learning, strategies, and tactics of learning. In the next part, the literature review deals with the learning styles and their classification according to the well-known authors. The last section of the literature review describes the diagnostics of the learning styles and methods that are used for detecting the learning styles. The results summarize the findings of a research study focused on the learning styles of university students. The research dataset consists of 187 cases that reflect the differences in the preferences of learning styles of future scientists and biology teachers and the relationship between a particular learning style and the favourite teaching method that students encountered at primary or secondary school. Furthermore, there were founded out the differences in the preferences of teaching methods and identified the reasons that had led the respondents to study science (biological) disciplines.
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Learning styles of pupils in the education of natural history
MALEČKOVÁ, Michaela
The bachelor thesis focuses on the topic of learning styles. There are described learning and some approaches to learning and strategies of learning in the review of literature. The next part of the literary part presents the most famous authors and their theories concerning learning styles of students. The following part applies on diagnostics of learning styles. In the last part there are characterised teaching methods which are used in biology and the signs that teaching methods and learning styles have in common. The practical part and results focused on learning styles of students from 8th and 9th classes from primary schools. The research data set contains 125 cases that reflect differences in learning styles depending on the pupil's gender or whether certain learning styles are related to biology. It is found whether a certain favourite area of biology (f. e. biology of human body, zoology, botany ...) is related to a learning style, whether the teaching method affects the popularity of biology, or whether a certain learning style is related to the teaching methods and forms in biology.
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Analysis of a beginning teacher and his common problems in an educational process
Nikodem, Michal ; Krykorková, Hana (advisor) ; Vincejová, Eva (referee)
Thesis "Beginning teacher - analysis of his personality, work and the most common problems in his work" deals with the personality of a beginning teacher, mentions the most common problems in his work and tries to find ideas for improving the situation. As the same times in analyses the selected components of his personality, which usually participates the lack of attention, especially in preparing future teachers, and which usually not mentioned in proper context. It focuses primary on the professional competence of teachers in relation to the student's core competencies as well as in other contexts. It also discusses the role of novice teachers in the context of the transformation of the Czech education system and also in the context of the Lisbon process. Analyses of key documents are included too. Great attention is paid to think about the different problematic areas concerning the work of novices teachers. In this context, the author focuses on the matter of authority and educational styles. It is based not only on the special literature but also on the sound, which took the form of numerous interview, surveys, questionnaires and observation. In conclusion, there are suggested recommendations of improving the situation of beginning teachers with regard to the analysis of the current academic...
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The Language of Instructors of Some Leisure Activities
Štěpánková, Kateřina ; Šebesta, Karel (advisor) ; Saicová Římalová, Lucie (referee)
The topic of this bachelor thesis is the language of sport leisure-time activities lecturers. It is aimed to pupils at the first grade (thereinafter ZŠ) and lecturers of kickbox and dance lessons. The first part of the thesis is written in general terms. It comes out from the literature about communication. It emphasizes the importance of pedagogical communication and its effect on the development of education and the cooperation among pupils and lecturers. The second part of the thesis is aimed to use of verbal and non-verbal communication in leisure-time activities.
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Pupil 's learning style and its role in the process of foreign language acquisition for younger school-age pupils
Smolíková, Kateřina ; Špačková, Klára (advisor) ; Valentová, Hana (referee)
Učební styl žáka a jeho role v procesu osvojování slovní zásoby v cizím jazyce u žáků mladšího školního věku Kateřina Smolíková ABSTRACT The thesis deals with learning styles and their role in the process of vocabulary acquisition. The theoretical part characterizes the basic concepts associated with learning styles, their typology and the history of their research, their diagnostics and pedagogical application. Furthermore, some previous research concerning the effectiveness of respecting the student's learning styles in teaching is mapped here. The practical part describes a research survey, which aims to identify students' learning styles and compare the level of acquired vocabulary depending on the way in which the new vocabulary was presented to students. The comparison of the level of acquired vocabulary took place in three groups, whose learning style preferences differed from each other. It was a visual-verbal and kinesthetic-aural group and a group of students without a preference for learning style. At the same time, the practical part also analyzes the percentage composition of the preferences of learning styles of individual respondents and compares their results with their preferences. KEYWORDS learning style, VARK questionnaire, younger school age, vocabulary acquisition, foreign language
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Learning styles and strategies in French textbooks
Kroupová, Lucie ; Klinka, Tomáš (advisor) ; Nováková, Sylva (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the issue of considering styles and learning strategies in French language textbooks. The aim of the thesis is to find out whether the French language textbooks reflect the different learning styles of pupils and also what strategies the pupil uses most often during solving the tasks from the textbook. The main question is therefore whether there is a sufficient range of exercises in the textbooks to make the textbooks suitable for all or at least the majority of learners with different learning styles and which learning strategy the textbook develops the most. The theoretical part defines and elaborates on relevant terms related to learning styles and learning strategies based on professional literature and subsequently the thesis deals with their classification which is closely related to the analytical part of the thesis. In the analytical part, the theoretical part of the work is applied into practice in a way that the selected textbooks were subjected to analysis of their content. Textbooks of my choice are normally used in elementary schools and have been selected on the basis that they are readily available as a result of their frequent use in elementary schools. The textbook analysis is primary, which is mostly just superficial observation of the textbook and...
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Analysis of a beginning teacher and his common problems in an educational process
Nikodem, Michal ; Krykorková, Hana (advisor) ; Vincejová, Eva (referee)
Thesis "Beginning teacher - analysis of his personality, work and the most common problems in his work" deals with the personality of a beginning teacher, mentions the most common problems in his work and tries to find ideas for improving the situation. As the same times in analyses the selected components of his personality, which usually participates the lack of attention, especially in preparing future teachers, and which usually not mentioned in proper context. It focuses primary on the professional competence of teachers in relation to the student's core competencies as well as in other contexts. It also discusses the role of novice teachers in the context of the transformation of the Czech education system and also in the context of the Lisbon process. Analyses of key documents are included too. Great attention is paid to think about the different problematic areas concerning the work of novices teachers. In this context, the author focuses on the matter of authority and educational styles. It is based not only on the special literature but also on the sound, which took the form of numerous interview, surveys, questionnaires and observation. In conclusion, there are suggested recommendations of improving the situation of beginning teachers with regard to the analysis of the current academic...
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The Language of Instructors of Some Leisure Activities
Štěpánková, Kateřina ; Šebesta, Karel (advisor) ; Saicová Římalová, Lucie (referee)
The topic of this bachelor thesis is the language of sport leisure-time activities lecturers. It is aimed to pupils at the first grade (thereinafter ZŠ) and lecturers of kickbox and dance lessons. The first part of the thesis is written in general terms. It comes out from the literature about communication. It emphasizes the importance of pedagogical communication and its effect on the development of education and the cooperation among pupils and lecturers. The second part of the thesis is aimed to use of verbal and non-verbal communication in leisure-time activities.
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Learning Styles of Students of Secondary Schools
Chocholoušová, Michaela ; Krykorková, Hana (advisor) ; Tvrzová, Ivana (referee)
This thesis is focused on learning styles of students of secondary schools, particularly of secondary vocational schools. It is divided in two parts - theoretical and practical. The theoretical part deals with the definitions of basic terms as learning, learner and meaningful learning. It also analysis the term learning style and other related terms, such as cognitive style. Final section of the theoretical part is dedicated to mesurement and influencing od leraning styles as a preparation for practical part. Practical part consists of quantitative research of learning style at secondary schools, with a focus on finding the prevailing learning style at secondary schools, comparing different types of schools in terms of learning style and proposing potential work with negative learning style, specifically on recommendations to change learning style towards meaningful learning.
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Current university students' strategies of learning
ČERNÁ, Jana
This thesis is divided into a theoretical and a practical part. In the theoretical part, basic terms are explained. These terms include e. g. learning and approaches to it, the styles and strategies of learning. Afterwards, motivation and memory are discussed as key principles for learning. A very important part of this section deals with the terms of the mental representation and metacognition, and the Gadrner?s notion of intelligence is briefly introduced in the last part. In the empirical part of the thesis, an explanatory qualitative research was carried out with a small number of university students. The aim of this thesis is to find out the learning strategies of university students and to compare them with a view of former university students with regard to some possible differences. The findings of this research are stated at the end of the practical part.
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