Gifted and talented youth are major national resources. With the supportive and appropriate help of society they can develop their intellectual abilities and successfully work in a certain domain. Psychologist’s duty should be helping parents and teachers to identify the child’s abilities and explain them what role in the development of human potential play intelligence, social environment and emotions. The following paper for the Master degree analyzes specifics of giftedness and its identifying problems. Psychological peculiarities of children gifted for music and visual arts are being discussed too. The aim of the Research is to analyze the intelligence, behavior and emotional problems of talented 14-16 years old teenagers and to compare the results with the same age ordinary teenager’s intellect and behavior. The paper also compares the results of children gifted for music and the results of children gifted for visual arts. „International Handbook of Giftedness and Talent“ second edition (2000) written by Heller, Monks, Sternberg, Subotnik, the articles by Winner, Martino, Feldhusen, Jarwan, Heller, Schofield served the job as literature base. Research methods CBCL 4/18 Child Behavior Checklist (author T. Achenbach), Draw-A-Person: Quantitative Scoring System test (J. Naglieri), Draw-A-Person: Screening Procedure for Emotional Disturbance (Naglieri J., McNeish T., Bardos) were used while research. SPSS program, statistical methods correlation, factor analysis helped to... [to full text]

Family’s influence to the development of 2-3 year-old children musical skills in the preschool educational institutions In the master’s degree paper, family’s influence to the development of 2-3 year-old children musical skills is analyzed. Not much attention is paid to the children early musical education in Lithuanian preschool educational institutions; it is also not really effective. How to organize the children early musical education in the preschool educational institutions, how to make it more effective, how to create appropriate conditions for 2-3 year-old children musical skills development, what approaches should be used to achieve unity in musical education in a nursery school and in a family - these are the questions that formulate the topical pedagogical problem. The subject of this study is the development of 2-3 year-old children musical skills; the objective of the study is to examine the development of 2-3 year-old children musical skills with their parents’ participation in the musical education classes. The goals of the study are to analyze pedagogical, psychological, musical literature that deals with this topic; to ascertain the parents and teachers’ attitude to music lessons together with 2-3 year-old children during the musical education classes in the preschool educational institution; to create a model for 2-3 year-old children musical skills development and to check the efficiency of this model during the experiment.. The hypothesis: the child... [to full text]

Baigiamojo darbo tikslas – išsiaiškinti ikimokyklinio amžiaus vaikų ugdymo proceso efektyvinimo, panaudojant muzikinį žaidimą, galimybes. Objektas – muzikinių žaidimų panaudojimas ikimokyklinio amžiaus vaikų ugdymo procese. Darbo tikslui pasiekti buvo iškelti šie uždaviniai: išanalizuoti ikimokyklinio ugdymo ypatumus Lietuvoje, atskleisti muzikinio ugdymo ypatumus darželyje ir šeimoje, išsiaiškinti žaidimų reikšmę vaikų muzikiniame ugdyme, literatūros analizės pagrindu parengti tyrimo instrumentą, leidžiantį nustatyti pedagogų ir ikimokyklinio amžiaus vaikų tėvų požiūrį į muzikinių žaidimų panaudojimą ugdymo procese. / Purpose of finishing work – to find out preschool age children education effective of process include musician games opportunities. The object – musician game use of preschool age children in the process of education. For work purpose reach was asking for these objects: to make analyze preschool education particularity in Lithuania, - to make analyze the conception of musician particularity disclose musician education particularity in kindergarten and families, and find out the value of games in children education of music, the analyze of literature. make test instrument who could diagnose teachers and parents of preschool age children opinion about musician games uses effective in education process. To make analyze of literature and done of questionnaire in the kindergarten of.