THE GAME AND ITS ROLE IN THE CHILD’S MENTAL DEVELOPMENT

GOALS OF STIMULATING EMOTIONAL AND PERSONALLY-SIGNIFICANT EXPERIENCES IN CHILDREN IN THE CONTEXT OF INDIVIDUAL EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS IN KINDERGARTEN

The current paper outlines the perspectiveness of the goals of stimulating emotional and personally-significant experiences in the context of the effective individualization and differentiation during pedagogical interaction in the kindergarten. It includes p...

COMPLEX METHODOLOGY FOR IDENTIFYING OF PRESCHOOL CHILDREN AT RISK OF SPECIFIC READING DISABILITIES

Development of reading abilities has a fundamental role in the overall social and cognitive functioning of every person. Growing number of primary school children with specific difficulties in the mastering of reading technique has necessitated the developme...

SAY IT AND SHOW IT: ON THE ROLE OF GESTURES IN LANGUAGE EDUCATION

This article presents three interrelated studies on the use of gestures by children, university students and teachers who apply the Narrative Format model for second language acquisition in their practice. The model was created by Taeschner (2005). The result...

INTERACTIVE WHITEBOARD IN THE PEDAGOGICAL INTERACTION IN PRESCHOOL CHILDREN

The present article presents the interactive board as an innovative tool for pedagogical interaction in kindergartens, emphasizing the most general advantages and disadvantages of this kind of educational system for children and teachers.

WORK MOTIVATION OF TEACHERS

Based on the examined literary sources, the article briefly reviews the development of research on teacher’s work motivation. The main contemporary research areas are highlighted. Three of these areas are analyzed in detail: the motivation for selecting the...

CHILDREN’S CONFERENCES

The article presents the importance of the children’s conference as a form of democratic leadership style and active inclusion of preschool children in the discussion of problems and decision making that are of great importance for the whole age group. Select...

PEDAGOGICAL TRAINING „HURRY UP KIDS, WE‘LL LEARN TO FLY! ”

In the article, the questions of humanization and democratization of modern education are discussed. The method of pedagogical coaching, and its role in the learning process of pupils and students, as well as the mechanisms of its action, are analyzed.

THE APPLICATION OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES IN THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN WITH MILD INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES

The paper outlines how the application of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) helps the students with Mild Intellectual Disabilities (MID) in the education field. For this research six different Greek educational software products have been...

STEREOTYPING OF ETHNIC RELATIONS IN CONTEMPORARY YOUNG BULGARIANS