THE CONCEPT OF TEACHING HEALTH EDUCATION IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michaela Hrivnova
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Elementary Schools ◽  
Health Education ◽  
The Czech Republic

scholarly journals Evaluation of the Implemented and Adopted Curriculum in Health Education in the Czech Republic with an Emphasis on the Drinking Regimen

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 81-108
Author(s):  
Michaela Hřivnová
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Food Intake ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Elementary Education ◽  
Subjective Evaluation ◽  
Health Determinants ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Average Percentage ◽  
Nutrition And Diet ◽  
Implemented Curriculum

According to the Framework Education Programme for Elementary Education in the Czech Republic, part of Health Education is nutrition and food intake, including the drinking regimen. This paper’s objective is to analyse that using the results of two extensive curricular studies performed at the Faculty of Education, Palacký University Olomouc. Both studies used data from representative samples of pupils in grade nine from elementary schools in the Czech Republic. The research instruments were designed according to applicable documents of the state-level implemented curriculum and showed good reliability. The results of the subjective evaluation of the implemented curriculum in health education suggest that in the area ‘healthy lifestyle and health care’, the subtopic ‘nutrition and health – healthy diet principles, drinking regimen, eating disorders’ was most dominant. The testing of the level of the adopted curriculum regarding fluid intake revealed a problematic level of pupils’ knowledge (the average percentage of task achievement was around 46%). Conclusions and recommendations for practice: nutrition and food intake (including the drinking regimen) is a very important topic in health education in elementary education in the Czech Republic, which is consistent with other research studies. However, the cognitive dimension of the pupils’ curriculum is inadequate. Qualitatively and quantitatively, the recommended drinking regimen may support natural health determinants, while an inappropriate or insufficient regimen may result in medical complications. The issue of adequate nutrition and diet and drinking regime must be taught by professionally and didactically competent teachers. Students should not only be taught cognitively, but their affective and behavioural abilities should also be formed.

scholarly journals Education in the Area of Human Protection in Emergency and Crisis Situations in the Context of Health Education in the Czech Republic

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 109-134
Author(s):  
Jitka Slaná Reissmannová
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Teacher Training ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Elementary Education ◽  
Questionnaire Survey ◽  
Education Programme ◽  
First Aid ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Emergency Situations ◽  
Crisis Situations

The present time brings a number of emergency and crisis situations, including floods, fires or Covid-19, the management of which requires the active involvement of citizens. Lower secondary education in the Czech Republic includes the subject of Health Education, in which this topic is addressed. Education of students in the area of lifestyle and health is included in Health Education and Home Economics, the latter being delivered in Slovenia. In terms of content, both courses are similar and can enrich each other by sharing valuable experience both in teaching students and in preparing future elementary school teachers. The objective of this paper is to present the concept of elementary education in human protection in emergency and crisis situations in the Czech Republic and the related concept of undergraduate teacher training. The research methods used were document review (of curricular documents and study plans) and questionnaire survey. The paper presents the results of an analysis of the curricular document governing elementary education in the Czech Republic (Framework Education Programme for Elementary Education), as well as the results of an analysis of a health education textbook focusing on the area of safety issues. The paper also presents the results of an analysis of the study plans of selected faculties of education in terms of human protection in emergency and crisis situations, as well as the results of a questionnaire survey focusing on the awareness of future teachers in the area of human protection in emergency situations. The results and main findings of the analysis of the curricular document suggest that the topics of the human protection in emergency situations should be strengthened in the context of Health Education (and throughout elementary education). The studies on teachers’ and future teachers’ awareness of human protection in emergency situations (including first aid) point to some shortcomings in undergraduate teacher training (for example, the optional course in first aid and human protection in emergency situations at the Faculty of Education, Masaryk University). Conclusions and recommendations for practice: the current revision of the Framework Education Programme for Elementary Education should allow the strengthening of emergency issues in Health Education. Based on the inquiry, the following is recommended: due attention should be paid to all emergency issues in the course of education; further teacher training in all emergency issues should be promoted; emergency issues in undergraduate teacher training should be integrated in the form of compulsory common base courses.

Using Interactive Board and Communication in Teaching English at Lower-Secondary Stage of Elementary School

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-22
Author(s):  
Alena Dobrovolná
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Elementary Schools ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Secondary Stage ◽  
Oral Interaction ◽  
Sufficient Space

AbstractThe contribution brings part of the research results on using interactive boards in teaching English at lower-secondary stage of elementary schools in the Czech Republic. The whole research focused on ways of using this modern device, on types of interaction and mainly tried to find out whether there is sufficient space for developing communicative competence through oral interaction. Here mainly the part about forms of interaction is described.

scholarly journals System of Geographical Education at Elementary Schools in the Czech Republic in the 1990s

Geografie ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 102 (3) ◽  
pp. 175-180
Author(s):  
Josef Herink
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Elementary Schools ◽  
Elementary Education ◽  
Curriculum Reform ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Important Process ◽  
Education Curriculum ◽  
Geographical Education ◽  
The Czech Republic

The paper deals with changes of geographical education at elementary schools of the Czech Republic in the 1990s. The curriculum reform is seen as the most important process. The state of geographical education in the end of the 1980s, i.e. in the end of totalitarian period, is critically evaluated. Chief aims of new elementary education curriculum, as well as problems of subject standardization and individual parts of the curriculum reform carried out by the Czech Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport, are presented. The role of geographical education within individual educational programs is discussed.

ICT SUPPORT OF INQUIRY-BASED MATH TEACHING AT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS IN THE OLOMOUC REGION OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Nocar ◽  
Qianjun Tang ◽  
Jitka Laitochová ◽  
Květoslav Bártek ◽  
Tomáš Zdráhal
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Elementary Schools ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Math Teaching
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