Sustainable Development Goals
Abstract/Objectives
This project aims to understand how different inspirational teaching methods of preschool teachers and the visual-spatial ability of young children can affect spatial concept acquirement from block building performance and verbal interaction content. The teachers use questioning to guild children to have a positive effect on children's cognitive development. In the preschool, the teachers often used open-ended questions to accept children's diverse ideas and create a children-centered learning space. However, block playing could provide children to learn spatial concepts, and children with visual-spatial ability would use more vocabulary about the spatial concept during block playing. Whether the teachers provide guided questions with the spatial concept or open-ended, it would affect children's learning?
Results/Contributions
In the last semester, the pre-test of children's spatial concept performance was completed, and the teachers' teaching strategies in the building block area were analyzed from the observation in the classroom of the previous semester. According to the research goals, the tutoring of teachers' scaffolding strategies has been completed during the winter vacation, and the teaching intervention is currently conducted. At the end of this semester, a post-test of children's spatial concept performance will be conducted to understand the effect of teaching intervention.
Keywords
blocks playing inspirational teaching methods visual-spatial abilityspatial conceptverbal interaction content
Contact Information
張菀真 博士 Wan-Chen Chang PhD
Wc_chang@mx.nthu.edu.tw