The purpose of this paper is to analyze the preschool teachers’ knowledge about gadgets for coordination development.
The survey included 100 preschool teachers from different kindergartens in Slovenia, who completed the online questionnaire, which was prepared and published on an open source application that enables the online survey service - 1ka. Using the questionnaire, we collected data on sex, age, total number of years in education, the region, the number of books read in the field of motion development and the number of visits to permanent professional education in the field of movement in the last five years, and in the second part the survey questionnaire preschool teachers showed the knowledge of coordination, in terms of defining coordination, identifying or listing the tools for the development of coordination, and how to use the space for the preparation of a polygon for the development of coordination.
We found that more than 90 percent of the surveyed preschool teachers can define coordination, that almost 90 percent of the surveyed preschool teachers can list at least three gadgets for coordination development, and that 90 percent of the surveyed preschool teachers can use the entire space for placement of the polygon for the development of coordination. Using Pearson's correlation test, we finally found that there is no link between achieving better results in the knowledge of physical - motor coordination and the frequency of professional education in this field.
The research thus showed that preschool teachers can adequately define the concept of coordination, list several gadgets for coordination development that they can also use properly in setting up a polygon for the development of coordination throughout the space, and that the frequency of training in this field does not affect the knowledge of preschool teachers about physical-motor coordination.
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