Improving Attention in Preschool Students
Overview
It is a 'be careful' plan for preschool teachers.
Be Careful Activity in Preschool Students
Grade Level: Kindergarten (4-6 years old)
Topic: Be Careful - Remember
Course Objectives: To remember what they perceive
Acquisition: Tells the color of beings / Tells the location of beings / Object re-expresses the situation or event after a while.
Materials: various pictures-photos
Common Basic Standards: Cognitive skill, visual memory
Motivation: The ability to remember what they perceive positively affects the development of attention. It is a skill that should be gained in early childhood.
Beyer handled Thinking skills on three levels as problem solving skills, critical thinking, skills and information processing skills. Thinking is a complex phenomenon, so it is important to support these skills, especially in early childhood (Beyer, 1987).
Instruction / Procedure:
"The teacher says to the children that we are going to play a game with you now. 'Do what I name the game.'
- The children are lined up one by one. The teacher makes various movements against them. He expects children to do it.
Can you remember the same movement, can you repeat it etc. The teacher motivates the students with questions such as "
Later,
1. Binaries are formed among students. One of the students, who are two, becomes a mirror, and the other is against him. The mirror boy has to imitate what his friend did. Children sit in a circle.
2. Then the mirror and the child are displaced and the activity is repeated like this.
3. Drama can be shaped by evaluating the imitations and movements at the end of each group.
The teacher brings the visual cards with different photos to the class. It draws a card to the student selected by means of counting. 1 min to the card drawn by the student. asked to look at it. After looking at the card is closed. You are asked what he saw in the photo. After the student tells, the card is opened and it is checked whether it is said correctly or not. The game is continued in this way.
Evaluation Activity:
-Do the students have enough time to look at the card?
-How many students correctly said in the photo?
- How many students said the pictures were wrong?
- Has the skill of remembering what students see?
Notes / Reflections / Reminders
Some students may have different social skills than others and may not want to participate in group work. In such cases, one-on-one studies can be conducted with these students.