This diploma thesis focuses on the design of a new kindergarten building located on a slightly sloping plot in Dubňany, South Moravia. Functionally it is possible to divide the kindergarten into three parts - administration, education and technical facilities. There are two classes, each for 24 for children, a separate common room and a pottery class. The total capacity of the kindergarten is 48 children. It is designed as a single-storey building with a green flat roof and without a basement. It is based on concrete foundation strips. Loadbearing mansory is made of sand-lime blocks, partitions are made of sand-lime blocks and aerated concrete blocks, ceiling is made of prestressed hollow core slabs. The walls are insulated with a combination of contact thermal insulation system and ventilated facade with facade cladding of fibre-cement board and timber cladding. Atypical round windows were use as a fun detail for the both classrooms and the common room.

The subject of the diploma thesis is the elaboration of project documentation for the construction of a kindergarten in Brno. The main entrance to the building is oriented to the north. The building is L-shaped and is designed as a two-storey, partly basement. There are 3 classes with a total of 72 children. External and internal load-bearing masonry of the above-ground floors is designed from ceramic blocks of thickness 300 mm. The basement masonry is then made of concrete blocks th. 300 mm cast in concrete. Internal non-load-bearing masonry made of ceramic blocks th. 115 mm. The insulation of the building is designed as a certified contact insulation system of EPS material. The horizontal load-bearing structures are designed as a ceramic prefabricated rib-and-filler floor with concrete grout. The stairs are designed as reinforced concrete monolithic. The roof is warm flat roof with an extensive vegetation layer.

This diploma thesis is focused on the design of a kindergarten and the processing of the design documentation for construction. The kindergarten is located on a large plot in a town Ostrava, an interface of boroughs Poruba and Třebovice. This object is free-standing with a partial basement. The building is divided into three functional objects – two single-storey parts and one double-storey part. There are two classes for the smallest children and a kitchen with a school canteen on the first floor. On the second above-ground floor there is a class for twenty-four children in early childhood. A class for pre-primary education and a principal’s office are also included. Vertical supporting structures in the above-ground floor are made of ceramic blocks Porotherm. In the basement there are reinforced concrete structures. Horizontal load-bearing structures are made of prestressed hollow core slabs Spiroll. The building is based on concrete strip foundations. Single-storey parts are roofed with a warm flat roof. The double-storey part is roofed with a cold flat roof with a timber truss girder. Close to the building there are two car parks – the first one is intended primarily for parents and teachers and the second one for personnel included cleaners and cooks.

The aim of the diploma thesis is processing of the design documentation for realization of the construction of a kindergarten in Havlíčkův Brod. It is a detached single-storey building that is functionally divided into three basic parts – the middle one, that contains a canteen with a preparation area and a serving hatch of food, and two connected side parts, left one and right one, each one of them is used as a classroom of the kindergarten with capacity up to 20 children for each class. The structural system of the building is created by a masonry system made of hollow bricks. The floor structure is designed of prefabricated prestressed concrete floor slabs, the roofing of the building is made of warm flat roof with extensive green vegetation covering. The external wall is supplied by ventilated facade which one is created by contact thermal insulation and by facade cladding of cement-bonded particle board. The building is set in a lightly sloping terrain.

The main task of the thesis is to design a new building of kindergarten in Šumperk. Kindergarten is single-storey building with flat roof. In the bottom part are play room for the kids. In the middle of building is a utility room with heat pump and hot water cylinder, next to is a air conditioning machinery with heat recovery unit. In the upper of building is directors office, wind lobby and speech therapy classroom. The system of this building is masonry wall system. Main element is a sand-lime blocks. Ceiling in the building is a reinforced concrete slab and layers of thermal insulation. The conception of flat roof is a extensive green roof. This building is designed to zero energy building. The project has been processed in ArchiCAD, AutoCAD and Artlantis software.

This qualitative multiple case study addresses kindergarten teachers’ and transitional kindergarten teachers’ self-perceived abilities to meet the needs of students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) who participate in early intervention behavior therapy (EIBT) programs. Systems thinking was used to examine the participants’ interactions with the school site-based and EIBT-based support systems within which they were expected to operate. Personal interviews conducted at three intervals during the first five months of the 2015-16 school year rendered three emergent themes: participants initially reported feeling more confident meeting the academic versus the social/behavioral needs of their EIBT students, but that position reversed for two participants during the course of the study; participants reported in-class support aides provided by EIBT agencies were superior to aides provided by their school districts, and; participants preferred having a single ‘go-to’ support person at their school site to having a robust, wide-ranging support system. Contains recommendations for establishing subsystems that foster inner- and intra-support system communication and raising ASD awareness.

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A phenomenological approach was used to identify contributing factors and common trends related teacher attrition by conducting interviews with teachers who decided to exit a North Carolina School District located in Western North Carolina. A qualitative approach allowed the researcher to gain valuable insight into the decision-making process of the 15 research participants. Data collection involved conducting one on one telephone interviews with participants by asking a series of open-ended questions that allowed for probing and follow-up questions. Analysis of researcher notes, evaluation of textual data produced by interviews, and observations allowed the qualitative investigator to identify emerging themes and patterns to answer the research questions. Family, spouse, job opportunity, money, and relocation were identified as contributing factors in the decision-making process of research participants to leave the North Carolina School district. Suggestions for future research include researchers working with school districts to develop an exit interview in the form of a quantitative research design to identify emerging themes and patterns related to teacher attrition. This will allow for the quick collection of data, and researchers will be able to conduct statistical analysis in a timely manner.

Mémoire en recherche-création / Cette recherche a permis de développer un micromonde portant sur la conscience phonémique destiné aux apprenants de moins de six ans, afin de vérifier si ce type de logiciel d’apprentissage par découverte pouvait être utilisé dans un nouveau domaine, la linguistique, et afin de voir les réactions que son utilisation suscitait. Après avoir établi les spécifications du logiciel, quatre expertes ont confirmé que celui-ci venait combler un besoin. La conception du logiciel a donc été poursuivie en alternant programmation et observation des réactions des apprenants lors de l’utilisation du prototype. Il a été constaté que les apprenants étaient curieux et excités d’explorer le micromonde et qu’ils faisaient preuve d’autonomie en effectuant plusieurs tâches de conscience phonémique via son interface. De plus, il a été observé que les apprenants n’avaient pas de difficultés à être attentifs pendant trente minutes, qu’ils étaient plus concentrés le matin, et qu’ils maitrisaient davantage l’utilisation du tactile que de la souris. Des interventions d’étayage offrant un soutien moral se sont avérées essentielles pour maintenir la motivation des apprenants. En effet, lorsque l’interface n’était pas assez intuitive, les apprenants se décourageaient lorsque leurs tentatives ne portaient pas fruit après plusieurs essais. Les résultats de cette recherche ne sont pas généralisables, car elle a été effectuée sur un petit échantillon de convenance. Aussi, il n’a pas été possible de vérifier si une progression d’apprentissage avait lieu. Plusieurs aspects demeurent donc à explorer avant de pouvoir affirmer que les micromondes sont des outils adaptés à la linguistique. / A phonemic awareness microworld for six years old or less learners was developed in this research to verify if this type of discovery learning software can be use in a new field: linguistic. Four experts have confirmed that the specifications of the software seem to create something needed in the field. Therefore the creation of the software was continued by alternating programming and observing learner’s reactions when they used the prototype. It was found that learners were curious and excited to explore the microworld and were autonomous when performing several phonemic awareness tasks via its interface. In addition, it was observed that learners had no difficulty being attentive for thirty minutes, that they were more concentrated in the morning, and that they mastered the use of the touch function more than the use of the mouse. Supportive interventions that provided moral support have been essential to keep learners motivated. Indeed, when the interface was not intuitive enough, learners became discouraged after several unsuccessful attempts. It is impossible to generalise the results of this research as it was carried out on a small sample of convenience. Also, the presence of a learning progression was not verified. As such several aspects remain to be explored before we can affirm that microworlds are tools adapted to linguistics.

The diploma thesis deals with the possibilities of early identification of a child's endangering in kindergarten, defining and explaining the concepts of primary prevention, endangered child, social exclusion. Furthermore, the work deals with the threat to the child due to social exclusion and in the end suggests how to address this issue. The main research goal of the work is to verify the functionality of the created detection tool for kindergarten teachers. The created detection tool provides kindergarten teachers with assistance in evaluating the child and his situation so that any problems can be detected in time. Areas that the detection tool deals with and how it has been evolved are described here. It also suggests possible procedures for solving problems based on the cooperation of the kindergarten teacher with a special pedagogue. With regard to the issue of social exclusion and early identification of child threats, the diploma thesis describes examples of good practice in preventing child threats from abroad and discussions about the possibilities of their implementation in our system. The research part of the diploma thesis is based on qualitative and quantitative methods, especially interviews and questionnaire surveys, and aims to verify the functionality of the created detection...