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PLAYING-2-GETHER: TEACHER SENSITIVITY AS A BASIS FOR INCLUSION IN PRESCHOOL - NEW CHALLENGE FOR PRESCHOOL TEACHERS IN SLOVAKIA
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High level of teacher training, as well as well-designed career development and long-life learning of teachers are considered to be very important standpoints for education from preschool to university settings. It is no doubt, that without professional competences of teachers, quality education of preschool children cannot be secured. European organizations explicitly argue for providing and securing high-quality early childhood education (e.g., European Commission, 2013; European Council, 2011). Several studies have provided compelling evidence that an investment in education and training benefiting young children produces the largest gains in terms of human capital, for both children (e.g., better job, higher income, better quality of life) and society. The P2G program is focused on teacher sensitivity in education in a kindergarten. The intention of the program is to help the teacher improve the environment with play activities in order to help children to better inclusion and socialization in kindergartens. Within the project, free and directed plays are defined based on the theories of Pianta [10], Hamre et al. [5], Vancraeyveldt [14] and others. Based on the above mentioned theoretical sources of the program, we apply individual principles in Slovak conditions. The program is implemented in a kindergarten with two teachers and two selected children, who have behavioural problems and problems with adaptation in the classroom environment. The paper deals with the description of child behaviour and teacher intervention through P2G. The analysis of realized video recordings shows the possibility to implement the program in Slovak kindergartens with regard to the socio-cultural context. At the same time, it will serve as a methodological source for pre-service and in-service teachers. The outputs of the project published on the web platform in MOOC will provide the possibility for sharing the mutual experience of kindergarten teachers at the European level, which is also the goal of the project and it contributes to the internationalization of pre-school education. The project will answer the challenge in supporting attractivity of teacher profession: all categories of teachers involved in the project (in-service preschool teachers, university teachers/teacher trainers and pre-service preschool teachers) will get opportunity to enhance their skills in innovative methods of education, to use ICT in education, to present their creativity, sense of human understanding and believes that teacher profession is a way how to help in developing child individuality and personality as well as in supporting social/mankind development.
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