Many researches prove that the success of learning at school decides the intellectual able. The intellectual estimation and determination must be based by parameters of systematic research and estimation. To foresee these directions of training, content and ways it is important the analysis of intellect reasons and intellect structure. The are not enough psychological and pedagogical works where would be the experimentally based connection of slight intellectual disorder and limited intellect. The object of this research is the training peculiarity, looking at the structure of the intellect. The aim of the research is to estimate limited and slight intellectual disorder content specify after the made comparative analysis of the disorder having schoolchildren training, the quantitative and qualitative their structure characteristic. The main tasks of the research are: to analyse the similarity and differences limited and slight intellectual disorder structure and to discover the training peculiarity of schoolchildren with the intellectual disorder. There were used these methods of the research: the analysis of schoolchildren anamnesis data, the talk to pedagogues, the analysis of D. Wechsler intellectual test (WISC – III)LT . The data were treated by SPSS 11.0 version, the parametrical T test (T - Test) and not parametrical Mann – Whitney test. At the research were pedagogues (lithuanian and mathematics teachers, special pedagogues and class teachers) working at diferent... [to full text]

This master‘s final paper analyses special educators‘ competence and professional purposefulness, defines their professional roles in comprehensive schools and reveals their professional motivation factors. The author takes the attitude that the effectiveness of special education depends not only on educator‘s professional expertise and qualification, but also on his or her professional purposefulness (motivation) that determines the quality of educational interaction (professional behaviour).

The relevance of the theme is that most pupils with special educational needs make mistakes solving textual tasks. There are not many concrete recommendations how to teach such pupils to solve these tasks. In descriptive research, based on qualitative data analysis, peculiarities of solving textual tasks, mistakes made by pupils who have complex learning disabilities (because of disorders of self - control – attention, specific cognition - confusion of visual operations and listening comprehension, linguistic process and behaviour – slow activity, uneven working ability) and ways to avoid them are being analysed. It is stated that an adequate experience given to SEN pupils makes it possible to teach them use appropriate strategies oriented to solving problems. In the process of the experiment it was revealed that SEN pupils can be helped to solve textual problems by forming right images about quantities, teaching then to solve preparative tasks. Detailed problem analysis, pointing out essential facts, self – instructing using inner speech, drawing schemas, dissolving problems are of great use as well.

The game is a social expression, which had come during a societal progress by a working process. It indicates a world, which surrounds a man. That man’s recreative activities, forms of a communication are factors, which are controlled by special rules and done for an aim of an entertainment, a pleasant time spending. During a historical period games were one of the most available ways for a man to improve in physically, to express a joy, to commune with others. When games had come from a generation to a generation, they had changed and improved. In different societal periods games had differed forms and purports. When a societal culture had developed, games had improved and had reflected national peculiarities, a nation’s ideology, an education, a level of culture, a science. Analyzing children’s games we realize what they during games repairing for theirs lives and at the same time they develop themselves mentally, physically. By playing games children usually solve theirs problems, find ways from crises, make acquaintances with a surrounding world and get versatile capabilities. When we look at children’s games, we see they get many new skills, like a diligence, reaching for an aim, the volition. The game organizes a collective, teaches how to help for each other and develops a responsibility, a principality, a geniality, the modesty, a culture of a communication. One of the most important conditions of the game is a discipline. So the game is the perfect way to calm... [to full text]

There is analyzed relevant area of the educational activity in the modern museum science in the master‘s work “Land museum’s educational activity as regional culture factor”, because museums implement main cultural functions: socialization’s, integration’s, creational, cognitive, communicational, informational, value’s and others. The objective of the survey is land museum’s educational activity. The goal is to detect features of the land museum’s educational activity and to define significance of this activity for the regional culture. The work consists of the introduction, three sections, references and annexes. Museum’s place in the regional cultural environment, conception of the museum, its description, content, historical aspects, regional museums abroad, contemporary status and legal basis is analyzed in the section one. Section two is dedicated for the land museum’s educational activity; there is analyzed mission of the museum meeting cultural needs of the inhabitants, museum’s possibilities as an educational institution, forms of the museum’s educational activity, themes, methods and means of its realization, purpose of the educational programs. Survey results are presented and summarized in the section three. Accomplished analysis shows that land museum’s educational activity became one of the main areas of the museum’s work; the popularity of the educational activity is constantly increasing in the society, variety of forms and themes of the educational work... [to full text]

The subject being discussed constantly at present is the age of criminals which is becoming younger and younger. This is a great problem of our society because the future of a society depends not only on the economic results but also on the proper social potential of the people who act. A survey shows that a large number of teenagers under sixteen who do not learn is crucial to their inappropriate and criminal activity. School, whose main aim is to educate an independent and creative personality, can contribute to the solution of this problem because only keeping a child at school enables us to reduce the threat of doing inappropriate activity. The current paper discusses the causes crucial to the schoolchildren who can be involved into a risk group. It also analyses the possible contribution of a tutor as a coordinator of the education process to the positive change in the society through the positive changes of the risk group schoolchildren. To be able to foresee the possibilities for the activity of a tutor, two surveys were carried out. The first one was a general survey in which 667 schoolchildren of a risk group and their tutors were questioned by the group of post graduates. The second survey, in which 262 schoolchildren of Vilnius Pilaite Secondary School had to answer the questions presented, was fulfilled personally by the author. On the basis of the research carried out and the analysis of the practical activity it can be maintained that each member of a... [to full text]

Problem. Largest attention in the scientific methodology literature on basketball topics is paid at training and improvement of techniques and tactics as well as at analysis of the best Lithuanian, European and world players during different competitions (Stonkus, 1985, 2002; Zelezniakas, 1984). However physical preparation problems of the players are left with little or without attention. Aim of the work: to analyse physical preparation peculiarities of Siauliai basketball club players and to relate them with preparation stage dynamics in the annual sports preparation cycle. Tasks of investigation: 1. To analyse physical preparation peculiarities of top mastership basketball teams (physical load volumes, intensity, allocation throughout the preparation cycle, percentage of different direction loads and their changing, physical preparation and readiness patterns). 2. To analyse annual physical preparation pattern of Siauliai basketball team and to assess it through analysis of physical readiness indices. 3. To follow and to base physical readiness index dynamics in the annual training macrocycle. 4. To analyse the link between the preparation measures used and physical readiness indices and efficiency of the competitions. In the investigation I applied literature analysis and generalization, document analysis, pedagogical observation and experiment, physical readiness index testing and statistic methods. Target group: Siauliai team players, who won the 3rd place in 20... [to full text]

Many recent economical, political and social changes have made a strong influence on people’s life in Lithuania. Nowadays community faces a lot of serious problems, such as poverty, unemployment, children exploit, compulsion, neglecting of human rights, drugs spreading among teenagers. Unemployment strongly influenced the increasing of number of unsociable families, their degradation and high rate of homeless and abandoned children. The main reason of children poverty is unemployment of their parents and as a consequence of it using various intoxicants (usually alcohol), low salaries, family structure and high number of children in such families. The research goal is to analyze dimensions and methods of working with alcoholic’s families in order to recommend some improvements in social work. Tasks of research: 1. To analyze theoretical premises of solving unsociable families problems. 2. To reveal reasons why alcoholic’s families do not live normal social life and emphasize peculiarities of social work with such families. 3. To determine methods used by social pedagogues working with alcoholic’s families. 4. To analyze what difficulties do social pedagogues experience while working with alcoholic’s families. 5. To analyze social problems and needs of social help of alcoholic’s families. The object of Master’s of social studies work – social work with alcoholic’s families. Theoretical part of this study reviewed: ways of adaptation in social and economic life unsociable... [to full text]

The society’s position in the XXI century is likely to become egocentric leaving personal values aside. Altruism and empathy are being ousted from our lives. Instead of them a lack of sympathy, help, understanding and passiveness towards other people’s misfortune is noticed. This is especially characteristic of the young generation. Therefore, the question about teenagers’ altruistic behavior arises, i.e. if teenagers tend to provide non-selfish help or support and what the level of their empathy is. There have not been any researches about the expression of teenagers’ empathic behavior carried out so far. Consequently, the relevance of the work is to reveal the present situation and problems related to it. The object of the research ��� the expression of personality’s altruism and empathy’s features of senior students. The aim of the work – to analyze the features of personality’s empathy and altruistic behavior of senior students. In order to achieve the aim the following objectives have been set: 1. to ascertain the nature of expression of senior students’ altruistic behavior; 2. to identify the manifestations of altruistic behavior applying the method of social provocation; 3. to determine the personality’s empathy features of senior students; 4. to identify if the coherence between the empathy of senior students and altruistic behavior exists; 5. to discover if social demographic and educational features influence altruistic behavior and personality’s empathy. In... [to full text]

Training of sportsmen is the perennial education activity possessing the specific structure and organizational form that trains physical peculiarities of sportsman, improves mental features, universally develops personality, determines it's activity, stimulates to reach excellent results. Talents in sport occur not so frequently therefore, the smallest cog slightly influencing the training of sportsmen should not be forgotten. Thus, only consecutive training system of sportsmen motivate rapid improvement of sport results. Shaping the training model of sportsmen it is essential to move towards the evidence, to escape uncertainty because the future of the training of spotsmen is not given by someone - it is being created and improved constantly that results in higher quality. The first chapter survey sport's as a social phenomenon place within society and it's function, theoretical sportsmen training system of sportsmen. The second chapter presents the training system of sportsmen and it's theorical model, peculiarities of the sports training institution. The third chapter analyzes the Lithuanian and the Siauliai sportsmen training system of sportsmen structure and models of sport training institutions, evaluates the actual situation of physical culture and sports, marks the shortcomings of the training system, presents the regional sportsmen training model.