Realistic mathematics education: An approach to improve problem solving ability in primary school

Mathematical problem solving was an crucial skill to be mastered by primary school student so that will help student to unravel their problems encountered in everyday life. By using the realistic mathematics approach, stundents learn mathematical concept based on reality or scope around students. This study aimed to develop an eligible learning materials and test the effectiveness of learning materials based on realistic mathematics education to enhance the problem solving skill of primary school students. This research and development study was conducted in Sawangan Subdistrict, Magelang Regency, Central Java, Indonesia. The testing subjects consisted of 12 students in the the preliminary field, there were 42 students in the main field, and 90 students in the operational field that divided into experiment dan control class. The data were collected by interviews, observation, and tests. The analyzing N-gain score and t-test with a significant level of 0.05 done to find out th effectiveness of the teaching materials. The developed of realistic mathematics eduation learning materials is feasible and effective in improving problem solving skill with significance value of 0.000 (p≤0.05). It can enhance the problem solving skills of 4th grade elementary school.

Un estudio sobre la participación en Educación Física de una alumna con discapacidad física (A study about the participation in Physical Education of a student with physical disability)

Se presenta un estudio de caso sobre una alumna de tercero de primaria con discapacidad física en España. El objetivo fue evaluar la participación de Alba en las sesiones de Educación Física e implementar estrategias que favorezcan su inclusión en la asignatura a través de la adaptación de tareas. Para ello, se llevaron a cabo cuatro fases durante la investigación: La fase I, correspondiente a una observación no participante de cuatro sesiones no consecutivas de las clases de Educación Física; la fase II, correspondiente a la realización de entrevistas semiestructuradas a los agentes implicados en la educación de la alumna y a la propia alumna; la fase III, correspondiente al análisis documental de una Unidad Didáctica del maestro mediante el modelo TREE, para detectar las posibles barreras en la participación de la alumna; y por último, la fase IV, correspondiente a una propuesta de adaptación de tareas de la Unidad Didáctica evaluada. Los resultados muestran una escasa participación de la alumna en Educación Física, ya que la interacción de esta con el grupo clase se limita a la asunción de roles pasivos o a la realización de actividades individualizadas en muchas ocasiones. Asimismo, se observa un claro desconocimiento sobre la trayectoria escolar de la alumna por parte de los agentes implicados, así como una falta de comunicación entre ellos y su familia. A partir de estos resultados se han propuesto una serie de adaptaciones para incrementar su participación en las sesiones de Educación Física. Abstract: A case study is carried out on a third-year primary school student with physical disabilities from a school in Spain. This research aims to evaluate the participation of Alba in Physical Education sessions and implement strategies that favour her inclusion through the adaptation of tasks. To do this, four phases were conducted during the investigation: phase I, corresponding to a non-participative observation of four non-consecutive sessions of the Physical Education classes that the participant attended; phase II, corresponding to the semi-structured interviews, carried out interviews with the agents involved in the student´s education; phase III, corresponding to the documentary analysis of a Teaching Unit of the teacher, using the TREE model, to detect the possible barriers that the participant must face; and finally, phase IV, corresponding to a proposal to adapt the tasks of that Teaching Unit. Results show a scare participation of the student in Physical Education, because the interaction with the group is limited to the assumption of passive roles or the performance of individualized activities on many situations. There is also a clear lack of knowledge about the student's school trajectory by the agents involved, as well as a lack of communication between them and their family. Based on these results, several adaptations have been proposed to increase their participation in physical education sessions.

ПІДГОТОВКА МАЙБУТНІХ УЧИТЕЛІВ ПОЧАТКОВИХ КЛАСІВ ДО ЕКОЛОГІЧНОГО ВИХОВАННЯ УЧНІВ ЯК ПЕДАГОГІЧНА ПРОБЛЕМА СЬОГОДЕННЯ

The article identifies and characterizes the features of environmental upbringing of primary school students and the preparation of teachers for its implementation as a pedagogical problem of today. The authors research scientific papers on the peculiarities of environmental upbringing of primary school students and teacher training, as well as describe ways to achieve the goal of environmental upbringing in the case of solving a set of interrelated tasks that have educational, upbringing, and value components. Environmental upbringing is one of the priority areas in the general system of education, aimed at the harmonious development of man, his civic consciousness. Therefore, it cannot be considered as a separate form of education. Although, of course, the relevance and specificity of environmental upbringing encourage us to perceive it as one of the important areas of the overall educational process. In the scientific and pedagogical literature, environmental upbringing and upbringing are interpreted as a psychological and pedagogical process of human impact in order to form knowledge of the scientific foundations of nature, the necessary beliefs and practical skills, a certain orientation and active social position in environmental protection, environmental management and reproduction of natural resources. Modern theory and methods of vocational education offers a concept of philosophical and psychological-pedagogical foundations of the process of professional environmental upbringing of future primary school teachers, emphasizing the role of methods and technologies by which it is possible to implement the content of environmental upbringing, implementing the highest ideals and standards of ecological educated personality of the teacher. The authors argue that the actualization of the tasks of preparing future primary school teachers for environmental upbringing of primary school students is due to modern socio-cultural circumstances, which allows the formation of environmentally educated personalities capable of self-application of environmental knowledge and skills. Key words: environmental upbringing, primary school student, teacher training.

Kindergartens education influence on primary school students' educational success in the parent's assessments

The article examines the influence of kindergarten education on primary school students' success in the students' parents' assessments. The research relevance is explained by the need to comprehend the family factor in the educational process at the early stages of personality development. The following issues are discussed: family ideas about primary school student educational success, the relationship between school choice and kindergarten attendance, parental involvement in kindergarten, and primary school education of children. In the study's empirical part, 40 informal interviews were conducted with informants whose children studied in public and private kindergartens. The author presents a parental assessments comparative analysis of kindergarten education effectiveness. When studying the interviews, Russian computer programs for processing unstructured texts were used. It was found that the majority of parents believe that kindergarten education has a positive impact on the child's school success in primary grades. Parents who have sent their children to a private kindergarten rate the education benefits they receive most highly. The main criteria for the primary school student's success in the family are the child's academic performance. Among other indicators of success, the interviewed parents named friendship with classmates, respect for the first teacher, work in study clubs, participation in an intellectual academic competition, and a child's good mood for attending classes. No connection was found between school choice and the preschool education type. The school choice is influenced by the parental involvement style in the child's education in the early educational socialization stages: mentoring or liberal. It turned out that families whose children attended a public kindergarten tended to be mentoring behavior, as opposed to a more liberal attitude towards the children education of parents who chose a private kindergarten. The prospect of the study is to expand the empirical base of the project and include in the sample informants who choose to homeschool their children.

Self-Concept in Primary School Student with Dyslexia: The Relationship to Parental Rearing Styles

Dyslexic children may be more likely to form a negative self-concept, especially with poor educational experiences and negative parenting. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the self-concept of Chinese dyslexic children in primary school, and explore the influence factors of self-concept as well as its relationship with parenting style. A total of 50 children with dyslexia and 50 non-dyslexics matched for age, grade and gender participated in the study. We used the Piers-Harris children’s self-concept scale (PHCSS) and the Chinese version of Egna Minnen Beträffande Uppfostran for Children (EMBU-C) to evaluate the self-concept and parenting styles of the study population. Our results indicated that the academic competence, popularity and general self-concept in the dyslexic group were significantly lower than those in the control group (p < 0.05). Based on the multivariate linear regression, we also found that residence (β = −0.32, p < 0.05) and physical activity (β = 0.36, p < 0.01) may influence factors self-concept in dyslexic children. In addition, a moderate and positive correlation was found between the self-concept of physical appearance and maternal emotional warmth (r = 0.36, p < 0.05) by using the Spearman correlation analysis. Our outcomes suggested that children with dyslexia have a poorer self-concept than typical developing children. The self-concept of dyslexic children should be improved in order to achieve better physical and mental development.

TO THE QUESTION OF THE PROCESS OF FORMING THE WRITTEN COMPETENCE OF A JUNIOR SCHOOL STUDENT

The article presents theoretical generalizations of the process of forming the written competence of a junior schoolchild by means of calligraphic skills. The relevance of the issue raised in the article is associated with identifying the problems of deteriorating handwriting of a primary school student and the task facing an elementary school teacher, increasing the percentage of children who have a calligraphically accurate writing skill. The primary rules for mastering a calligraphic skill are the rules of landing, the position of the notebook, and then the rules related to the writing process, such as the tilt and position of letters on a line. The formation of written competence through the calligraphic skill of a junior schoolchild is the most important task of an elementary school teacher. This article is devoted to the issue of studying the written competence of younger students through the selection of diagnostics to determine the level of formation of calligraphic skills in younger students. When identifying the level of formation of calligraphic skills among first graders, the article describes the criteria and indicators of assessment: graphic literacy; calligraphic clarity and stability; connectivity; writing speed. On the basis of the selected criteria and indicators of the formation of calligraphic skills among first graders, the characteristics of the levels are also presented: high, medium and low. In accordance with the criteria and indicators of the formation of calligraphic skills, diagnostic tasks were selected for the first graders.

VR 360 as an Alternative for Virtual-Based Practicum Learning with Stereoscopic View

School education especially on primary school have a big impact to the children. Good and right education can sharpening the brain and influence the student with good attitude. Every information that attractive and easy to understanding is very important to give big impact for every primary school student, it also can provide a pleasant learning experience for these students. Therefore, this research develops a smartphone application that can provide a pleasant experience in learning knowledge of the surrounding environment from objects with virtual reality technology. To display these objects, a 360 ° panoramic image is used or a 2048px width 1024px width with a wide viewing angle (360 degrees) and this can be done by teachers to make the image or search for material sources on the internet. This technology allows students to see objects virtually. In use, this study requires a VR headset as a device for visualizing stereoscopic displays but it does not need installation because it is enough to access a smartphone browser then it will work. The system is designed using the spiral method as a process model and uses a-frame in application development. The interface can be run on the Android operating system. In making this application using the html programming language, laravel framework and a-frame framework.

Designing Educational Game to Increase Environmental Awareness

Plastic is a versatile material that is inexpensive and has the characteristics of being lightweight, strong, durable, anti-corrosive, with high thermal and electrical insulation properties. Regardless of the positive impact on economic development, it brings negative impacts on the environment. The amount of plastic waste, that continues to increase, pollutes the environment and ocean chronically. There needs to be a change in people behavior and awareness to reduce the use of it. In fact, raising awareness of the environment from the dangers of plastic waste is not an easy matter, but if taught since childhood, good environmental awareness and habits will be formed. This research tried to raise awareness among elementary school children in Indonesia of the dangers of plastic waste through an educational game developed using the Game Development Life Cycle (GDLC). GDLC consists of six phases: initiation, pre-production, production, testing, beta, and release. Strategy genre was chosen for engaging gameplay. Environmental awareness and knowledge on the danger of plastic waste were given integrally through storylines, gameplay, goals, and animated cutscenes. The results of testing at the beta stage on the respondents showed that 71.11% of primary school student respondents gained environmental knowledge.

Student Teachers and Kindergarten Children Talking about Picturebooks Focusing School in Didactic Research Labs at University

Within the project“Lehren, Lernen und Forschen in Werkstätten” (Teaching, Learning and Researching in Laboratories) from 2016-2019, German didactic seminars were held in the “Lern- und Forschungswerkstatt Grundschule” (LuFo) (Primary Education Research Lab) at the Technische Universität (TU) of Dresden. The seminars, which were attended by primary education student teachers, dealt with telling stories to wordless picturebooks, reading aloud picturebooks about school or other literary themes. The student teachers dealt with selected picturebooks from the perspective of literature didactics, visual literacy studies and empirical research on reception of literature. They designed didactic arrangements in the sense of inquiry-based learning and invited kindergarten and primary school children to the LuFo to explore the stories told in the picturebooks together with them. The study is based on the student teachers' seminar papers in which they describe their projects, give didactic reasons for the selection of literature and analyse their interactions with the children around the picturebooks. Using the example of picturebooks about school, the study uses the Key Incident Analysis to ask which books the student teachers choose and how they receive them, in what form they discuss them with the children and how they shape the reading situations and finally, how they reflect on their own learning processes. The results give an insight into both the processes of reflection of the primary school student teachers and the processes of literary learning of the children.