Prevention of children's adaptation difficulties in primary education through early stimulation of school readiness

Abstract

The presented article is devoted to the issue of preventing adaptation difficulties of beginning schoolchildren by strengthening school readiness at the end of pre-primary education in kindergarten and in elementary school. Specifically, it concerns the stimulation of universal learning prerequisites, which are considered by experts to be one of the essential determinants of initial learning. With this intention, our own set of activities was developed, which is oriented towards optimizing the conditions in the transition period and developing the learning prerequisites of children for school education. In order to verify their effectiveness, a pedagogical experiment was carried out at selected primary schools in Slovakia. The experiment confirmed that the proposed set of activities had a statistically significant effect on the level of learning prerequisites of children at the beginning of schooling. We can consider the strengthening of individual areas (e.g. memory, school motivation, planning, understanding of instructions, etc.) as one of the important components of preparing children for a successful start to school and preventing adaptation difficulties.