Pedagogical Almanac

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Authors: Editorial

Table of content

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Authors: Tanya Misheva

Distance / e-learning has real potential to stimulate the development of gifted and talented students. Even if it is not planned, organized and conducted in a format that allows them to manage learning that is relatively independent of the main flow ( main stream students), to enable students to individual control during work, methods for learning and organization of free time. The article raises the question of how distance learning, introduced in an emergency situation, has affected gifted and talented students. The answers are sought through the analysis of a survey conducted with teachers, gifted students and their parents. The different points of view lead to the conclusion that when developing a long – term strategy for working with talented students at school, the opinions and reactions of all participants in the learning process should be thoroughly studied.

34-43

Authors: Petya Konakchieva

The paper presents academic interaction characteristics in the context of competence-oriented higher pedagogical education. Options are analysed for stimulating subjective activity in communication by implementing innovative models for cooperation between teachers and students. The developing effects of the synergetic functioning of academic subjects in both auditorium and non-auditorium interaction are systematized. Conceptual solutions are substantiated for optimizing the professional and practical training of pedagogical students in the context of modern educational paradigms. Trends are presented and perspectives are specified for achieving sustainable quality of academic interaction by transforming and renewing higher pedagogical education with necessary innovations.

51-60

Authors: Hristina Gergova

Language competence, based on the alphabet and writing of the community one belongs to, is the “key“ to the personal and social growth of a child. Mastering reading and writing is a complex process for all students but it is most difficult for first-graders, learning the official Bulgarian language as a second language, particularly Roma children. It is assumed that a satisfactory formed orthoepic competence (Beginners’ level) during the literacy development process is the fundamental tool for successful “entry“ into the Bulgarian alphabet and writing. Within the outlined theoretical context, an analysis of a survey among primary teachers has been made, aiming to highlight the importance of the problem and to make well-founded recommendations for improving the educational process in the particular pedagogical and linguistic situations.

67-85

Authors: Yonko Hristov, Tanya Misheva

The article examines some educational and socio-pedagogical factors for finding supporting and developing gifted and talented students on the basis of a comparative analysis prepared after a survey in two schools in Veliko Tarnovo. The research raises questions related to the need for in- depth socio-pedagogical work, special educational design additional pedagogical qualification and educational resources for gifted children in the Bulgarian school.

95-100

Authors: Nadezhda Georgieva, Kalina Georgieva

The article discusses complexity of syncretic-character relationships between the constituents of noun phrases with prepositional postmodification in Russian language, considering their contradictory interpretations in Russian grammar guides’ analysis when applied in Russian-as-a-foreign-language teaching. The experience with beginners and pre-intermediate learners of different ages indicates the practical necessity of analyzing such units regarding their multi-aspect syntactic potential, which is often incompletely treated by contemporary linguistic theory instructions.

112-119

Authors: Vanya Ivanova

The subject of this article is to clarify the connection between entertainment in Math lessons and educational STEAM technologies, which have the potential to motivate and stimulate the interest of preschool and primary school age in Math and their cognitive logical - mathematical activity. The article discusses the STEAM approach in its essence and teaching Maths using this method. The article also presents some educational technologies in fun Math, which allow children to discover for themselves through the methods of experimentation, exploration and experience, and this acquired independence leads children to an increased interest and motivation to learn.

127-133

Authors: Mariana Borukova, Svetla Zhecheva-Tupankova

Physical activity reflects the general workability of man’s organism on the basis of the complex development of the motive qualities and the needed skills and habits for their manifestation. Mini basketball is a game adapted for children at their initial stage of education; the pupils improve their motive skills, develop their physical qualities, the feeling of affiliation as well as work in a team by practicing the game. The purpose of the study is to make comparative analysis of the physical ability and specific skills level of 8-year-old pupils on sex factor. Studied are 96 pupils (45 boys and 51 girls) who underwent sport-pedagogical tests according to 11 signs bearing information about the physical abilities and specific skills of the children. Descriptive Statistics and comparative analysis are applied; the results give us the reason to claim that the differences for 10 of the indicators of the totality we have studied bear advantage in favor of the 8-year-old boys while for six of the signs the differences are statistically important. The boys have better explosive strength of the lower and upper limbs, possess better exactness in passing the ball to a goal, can better lead the ball at high speed. The girls’ advantage is for their suppleness only but the differences are not statistically reliable.

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Authors: Editorial

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