e-Pedagogium 2012, 12(2):71-94 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2012.026

Action Plan of a Teacher in His/Her Own Class

Jana Trabalíková
Mgr. Jana Trabalíková, PhD., Department of Educational Studies, Faculty of Humanities, ®ilina University, Univerzitná 8215/1, 010 26 ®ilina, Slovakia, e-mail: jana.trabalikova@fhv.uniza.sk

This paper informs about the action plan of a teacher in his/her own class. It focuses on one of the possible approaches how to explore the quality of class environment as a factor of the education-formation strategy efficacy in real conditions of a Slovak primary school during the implementation of cooperative teaching. By the means of diagnosing mutual relations among pupils, and the changes in the sociometric structure of groups, it reviews the changes in their prosocial behaviour. It describes the research, which compares by sociometric measures the diagnosable differences in the dynamics of social relations in an experimental and controlled group created by 144 pupils of the 5th year of a primary school. After analysing the acquired data from the sociometric measures, it brings a piece of knowledge that if a teacher at the second grade of primary schools wants to influence the social climate in classes and does not have the support from colleagues, his efforts need not cause an expected effect. Even due to this it emphasizes the fact that if there are to be innovations at our schools, they should be systemic and elaborated, they should be intermingled with all teaching subjects.

Keywords: Action research, practical research, sociometry, sociograms, sociometric matrix, socio-preferential relations, social skills

Published: April 1, 2012  Show citation

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