In my undergraduate thesis, I have focused on the role of the preschool teacher as the second teacher in the first grade of the nine-year elementary school. Preschool teacher and school teacher work together as a team and they are equally involved, in the education process of kids in their first year of primary school. This thesis was written in autumn/fall 2020 and 2021. Generally, it consists of two parts.
In the first, theoretical part, I presented the role of kindergarten as a pre-school at the transition, the basic features of the first year of the nine-year elementary school, and I also described how a typical day in the first grade looks like. Mainly, I focused on the role of the preschool teacher in the classroom. Furthermore, I described the communication between preschool teacher and the school teacher. As I have already mentioned they are working as a team and therefor, mutual communication is very important. I also briefly touched upon the topic of the cooperation with parents, as professionals in the school encounter various forms of cooperation. Last but not least, I also presented some laws and adjustments for the kids with special needs.
The second part of the thesis is empirical. I have collected and summarised the results that I had got from the interviews done with teachers and preschool teachers, who work in the first grade of the nine-year elementary school. The results suggest that the role of the preschool teacher is mostly equal to the role of the school teacher. Based on that, we can conclude that communication between the preschool teacher and the school teacher plays a very important part and that preschool teacher is also involved in a lot of different activities such as morning care programs, parent meetings, and cooperating in different meetings.
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