Language: Korean

Abstract/Notes: This study examines the effect of combining vigorous exercise with cognitively engaging games on children’s executive functioning skills such as self-direction, engagement, and focus. Over four weeks, the research took place in a Montessori early childhood classroom with 17 children ages 2.6 to 6. The four-week study included a one-week baseline week to collect initial data on the capabilities of self-direction and comprehensive data on energy levels and engagement. The children participated in a 14-minute movement activity with 7 minutes of vigorous exercise and 7 minutes of cognitive-engaging games. The researcher used both quantitative and qualitative data tools to examine the effects on children’s ability to independently choose an activity, engage, and focus during the morning. The increased movement and cognitive exercise positively impacted children’s executive functioning skills. Future recommendations would include extending the intervention to study further if productivity continued to increase as the children had more days to engage in the exercises. Based on the data gathered in this action research, I recommend that teachers provide an opportunity for children aged three to six to participate in a short morning gathering where they can engage in vigorous movement and a cognitively engaging game.

Language: English

Published: St. Paul, Minnesota, 2022

Language: English

Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1970

Abstract/Notes: A Tangible User Interface (TUI) can bridge real-world physical objects with the digital world, which has much potential for children with ASD. However, at present, most TUIs have been developed for children in affluent countries. Such solutions may not be applicable for children with ASD in low resource countries like Sri Lanka. Therefore, we have designed a tablet-based, and cost-effective TUI called POMA (Picture to Object Mapping Activities) for supporting social and cognitive skills of Sri Lankan children with ASD. This paper presents the evaluation of POMA with 20 children with ASD (moderate: 6; mild: 14) and five special education teachers. Results show that both groups of children were able to play POMA accurately. However, children with moderate ASD required more time and help from the special education teachers to play POMA compared to children with mild ASD. This study identified several lessons for designing TUI, such as the importance of including audio prompts when the system is in idle state, using appropriate helper cues, using multiple types of reinforcements, easy-to-handle nature of the tangibles and the properties of them. Finally, we provide guidelines to overcome the issues for designing low-cost TUIs for children with ASD.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2020.102486

ISSN: 1071-5819

Abstract/Notes: La pédagogie Montessori est une méthode d’éducation qui a été mise au point au début du siècle dernier par Maria Montessori pour des enfants d’un quartier défavorisé de Rome en Italie. Depuis sa création, elle s’est développée à la marge de l’éducation nationale et se retrouve principalement dans des écoles privées. La pédagogie Montessori devient cependant de plus en plus populaire auprès des enseignants de l’école maternelle publique. Ce récent engouement apparaît fondé à la vue de plusieurs principes de cette méthode. En effet, elle promeut l’autonomie, l’auto-régulation, la coopération entre pairs d’âges variés et l’apprentissage à partir de matériels sensoriels et auto-correctifs. Ces caractéristiques sont plutôt en accord avec les connaissances scientifiques sur l’apprentissage et le développement de l’enfant. Cependant, à ce jour, les preuves expérimentales rigoureuses de son efficacité sont limitées. Dans cette thèse, nous avons mesuré les compétences langagières, mathématiques, exécutives et sociales d’enfants d’une école maternelle, repartis aléatoirement entre des classes appliquant la pédagogie Montessori ou une pédagogie conventionnelle. Nous avons suivi leurs progrès au cours des trois années de l’école maternelle (étude longitudinale) et avons comparé les performances des enfants en fin de Grande Section (étude transversale). Nous avons également élaboré une mesure pour évaluer objectivement la qualité d’implémentation de la pédagogie Montessori dans cette école, situé dans un quartier défavorisé. Nos résultats ne montrent pas de différences entre les groupes dans les domaines des mathématiques, des compétences exécutives et des compétences sociales. Cependant, les enfants issus des classes Montessori avaient de meilleures performances en lecture que les enfants issus des classes conventionnelles en fin de Grande Section. La pédagogie Montessori apparaît donc comme adaptée à l’apprentissage de la lecture chez le jeune enfant. [The Montessori method of education was created at the beginning of the last century by Maria Montessori to help children in a disadvantaged neighborhood of Rome in Italy. Although it is nowadays most commonly found in private schools, the Montessori method has gained popularity among teachers in public preschool and kindergarten in France and around the world. This popularity may appear legitimate with regards to the principles underlying the Montessori methods, which involve autonomy, self-regulation, cooperation between children from different age groups and learning with multi-sensorial and self-correcting materials. These characteristics are broadly in line with research on learning and development in young children. However, there is limited evidence for the effectiveness of the Montessori method in the scientific literature. In this thesis, we measured the linguistic, mathematical, executive and social skills of preschoolers and kindergarteners from a public school in which children were randomly assigned to classrooms in which the Montessori method was implemented or to classrooms in which a conventional teaching was used. We followed children from the first year of preschool to kindergarten (longitudinal study) and compared the performance of children at the end of kindergarten (cross-sectional study). We also developed a scale to evaluate the quality of implementation of the Montessori method in the school, located in a disadvantaged neighborhood. Our results do not show any difference between groups in terms of mathematical, executive and social skills. However, children from Montessori classrooms had better reading performance than children from conventional classrooms at the end of kindergarten. Therefore, the Montessori method appears to be well suited for developing reading skills of young children.]

Language: French

Published: Lyon, France, 2019

Language: English

Published: Kingston, Ontario, Canada, 1988

Abstract/Notes: Bu araştırmada çalışma grubunu oluşturan Montessori programı ve MEB programı ile okul öncesi eğitim alan deneme ve kontrol grubu çocukların Bilişsel gelişim ve Sosyal yetkinliklerini karşılaştırmalı olarak incelemek amaçlanmıştır. Araştırma çalışma grubunda 2016-2017 eğitim öğretim yılında Selçuk Üniversitesi Sağlık Bilimleri Fakültesi İhsan Doğramacı Anaokulunda Montessori programı ile okul öncesi eğitimi alan 20 ,Esentepe Koleji Anasınıfında MEB programı ile okul öncesi eğitimi alan 20 kontrol olmak üzere toplamda 40 çocuktan oluşmaktadır. Araştırmada veri toplamak amacıyla Marmara Gelişim Ölçeğinin alt ölçeği olan Bilişsel Gelişim Ölçeği ve Sosyal Yetkinlik ve Davranış Değerlendirme-30 (SYDD-30) Ölçeği kullanılmıştır. Testler deney ve kontrol gruplarına ön ve son test olmak üzere uygulanmıştır. Elde edilen verilerin analizinde Mann Whitney U testi ve Wilcoxon İşaretli sıralar testi kullanılmıştır. Araştırma sonucunda elde edilen bulgular incelendiğinde; bilişsel gelişim ölçeği son test puanlarının kontrol grubu lehinde bir farklılaşma gösterdiği, Sosyal Yetkinlik ve Davranış Değerlendirme-30 (SYDD-30)ölçeğinin sosyal yetkinlik, Saldırganlık ve Kaygı alt ölçeklerinin son test puanlarında ise anlamlı farklılık bulunamamıştır. / In this study, Montessori curriculum and MEB curriculum(Ministry of Education Preschool Education Curriculum ) which constitute the study group and control group who took pre-school education aimed to examine the children's cognitive development and social competence comparatively. The research study group consists of 40 children, 20 of whom are in pre-school education at the Montessori curriculum in Selcuk University School of Health Sciences Faculty Ihsan Dogramaci Application Kindergarden School, 20 of which are MEB curriculum (Ministry of Education Preschool Education curriculum) at Esentepe College Kindergarden and 20 of which are in pre-school education. The Cognitive Developmental Scale and the Social Competence and Behavior Evaluation-30 (SYDD-30) Scale were used as the subscale of the Marmara Developmental Scale in order to collect data in the study. The tests were performed to the experimental and control groups as pre- and post-test. Mann Whitney U test and Wilcoxon Marked rank test were used for the analysis of the obtained data. When the findings of the research are examined; There was no significant difference in the scores of Social Competence and Behavior Evaluation-30 (SYDD-30) social competence, Aggression and Anxiety subscales, whereas cognitive development scale post test scores showed differentiation in favor of the control group.

Language: Turkish

Published: Konya, Turkey, 2018

Language: English

Language: French

Language: English

Published: Rohnert Park, California, 1980