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This dissertation is focused on the development of skills of children in preschool age. The work is split into the theoretical and practical parts. The chapters of the theoretical part deal with the characteristics of child's progress in preschool age as well as with partial function development, personal growth and upbringing in the preschool age. The work is focused on the education of children in preschools and on the monitoring of school maturity. The practical part of the dissertation concentrates on the implementation of the NTC Stimulation Programme into the pedagogical and educational activities of the Salomon Preschool, a private education center for preschool children. In the practical part, the NTC method is evaluated based on the comparison of the research group with a control group consisting of children attending state preschool. Furthermore appropriate activities for preschool children are recommended. The recommended activities are focused on the support of specific key competencies and skills. KEY WORDS Partial functions, preschool age, child's development in preschool age, options of development of partial functions, school maturity, stimulation, education of children.

Game is a key activity in preschool age, theme of my thesis is therefore related to acts of game and a role of toys in this particular age. Aim of my research is to describe gaming activities with toys, primarily with a doll and a toy car, which are the most typical toys for preschool children. It is very important for kindergarten teachers to know childrens preferences and attitude to the most used types of toys, because it is them, who choose the offer of toys and equipment of class. In theoretical part, I try to find out which areas of development are affected by game. Practical part deals with a semi-structured observation of game process and it determines game's gender dimension. By a method of interview with 27 parents and 25 children I try to find out their knowledge of basic toys, choice of toy itself, which toys kids possess and which toys they prefer. It can be expected, that preschool age children have built a basic gender identity, that is perceived by them as partly changeable. For this reason, my research focuses on gender distinctiveness, which could occur during an interview or a game. The research has proved gender categorization of dolls and toy cars. Children and parents had both a similar idea about toys intended for boys or girls. Children have about 200 different toys at...

v angličtině The name of dissertation: Movement activities of chlidren in their presschool age Written by: Šárka Kochanová The head of dissertation: PaedDr Jana Kolčiterová The objectives of dissertation: 1. Analysing some conditions for carrying out preschool children's activities at selected nursery schools and integrating individual preathletic exercises in chlidren's exercise. 2. Finding out parent's interests in children's sport activities. 3. Differertiation varios levels of children's sport activities at same age. Methodology: Study in depth of expert literaturee Informing about background at selected nursery schools Monitoring children's sport activities including preathletic exercises and testing its opinion Applycating simply athletic games to get necessary information to find out the differences in motor level of children at same age. Monitoring differences in sport activities of children living in town and in the country By way of unstandard questionnaire getting new information about children's and parent's attitudes to own assessment of their sport activities Results of dissertation 1. Conditions for sport activities at nursery schools locating in towns and in the country differ from one another. Nursery schools in the country don't measure up to the equipment of nursery schools in...

The theoretical part of the thesis deals with the determination of the development characteristics of the period from the age of three to eight (i.e. pre-school and younger school age). The principal focus is on the issue of school maturity, the possibilities of its diagnosis and the pupils' adaptation to the first year of primary school. The empirical part introduces a quantitative research focused on some diagnostic methods (the Orientation Test of School Maturity - Orientační test školní zralosti, the Knowledge Test of Pre-school Children - Zkouška znalostí předškolních dětí and The Star - Wave Test) and the possibility of using these methods for predicting a child's adaptation to the first year of primary school. The thesis aims to examine how these methods could be used and also to show the possible limits related to using these methods. Keywords: school maturity, diagnostics, postponement, preschool age, primary schoool matriculation, adaptation

Title: Individual ski lesson of preschool children Targets: The target of diploma work is on base of observation the interaction of ski instructor or parent and pupil to show, which kind of ski lesson is more appropriate for preschool age. Method of diploma work: In this work I used attended observation and controlled conversation. During attended observation I have taken notices progress of ski lesson to my beforehand prepared table with fixed criterions (age of child, sort of teacher, duration of teaching lesson, length of slope, kind of terrain, teaching methods, way of snowplough practice, correction of mistakes, communication during teaching lesson). I used controlled conversation after the end of lesson and the conversation was led with parent of child and instructor. Controlled conversation was composed from open questions. During conversation I used questions regarding experience or behaviour, knowledge and perception. Result: Establishing of the first contact of a teacher and a child was performed only during instructor lesson. The instructor had to get child to his side. Between parent and child hasn't been first contact. During the lesson there was communication only between the teacher and the child. Instructor tried to communicate with child during whole lesson. The instructor used...

Graduation thesis New trends in use of dog at work with child clients. The essential part of the thesis is focused on dog-assisted therapy, respectively on factual opportunities of practicing canistherapy considering the client's needs. Final part of the thesis holds an example of canistherapeutic activities realized as part of the project Not Only People Help in Motol University hospital.

Title of project: Awareness of parents of preschool children about the existence of the Outdoor pre-schools in Hradec Králové area. Aim of project: To describe the level of awareness of parents about the existence and form of outdoor preschools. This is put into context with communication channels that outdoor preschools use. We create recommendations for increasing public awareness of this type of pre-school facilities. Methodology: We used both qualitative and quantitative methods fo our work. It has been survey from quantitative methods. This questionnaire was created specifically for the purpose of our research and it has been spread among parents of preschool children in Hradec Králové. We also used a literature search and structured interview fromor qualitative methods. We conducted the interview with representatives of outdoor preschool in Hradec Králové. Results: We found, that only 43% of parents in Hradec Králové and surroundings knows about existence outdoor pre-school. Only 19% of respondents has more informations about outdoor pre-schools has. Furthermore, we found that the most common way to spread awareness of that institution is personal contact (friends), television and websites. Keywords: outdoor preschools, preschool age, forest education, marketing, marketing mix

This thesis focuses on the perception of the aquatic environment in preschool children. Highlights the differences between children of preschool age complete beginners who start with swimming and children, who are engaged in swimming since infancy, but they are going to swim alone without parents. With swimming, selected test detects differences between the age groups of children. Key words Aquatic environment, Swimming, Swimming lesson, Preschool age

The thesis is focused on plays of preschool children with toy cars and dolls in kindergarten. The work is based especially on the activity theory. According to it the game is an essential activity of children and it has an influence on their development. Knowing that the game can be beneficial for children, I set as the main objective of the work to find out which actions with toys are performed and which areas they may develop. The work is divided into the theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part presents basis of the work. It contains four main chapters which deal with the preschool period, toy and play in a child's life and play from the perspective of the activity theory. The qualitative research is described in the empirical part. The main method for acquiring data was observation. I observed 30 plays total that were analyzed subsequently. Interviews were conducted as additional method. The research sample consisted of 15 children. On the basis of play analysis I have found out that toys were used individually or in the gender homogeneous groups. Gender mixed play was observed only in two cases during a play with car/train toys. Boys played both with car toys and dolls. Girls played with dolls, they did not choose car toys on their own. From the viewpoint of the play content the...