Creating competency through visualization of behavior observation skills of kindergarten teachers using clickers

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26381331
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Special needs education
• Research Institution: Hokkaido Bunkyo University
• Principal Investigator: Gotoh Mamoru 北海道文教大学, 人間科学部, 教授 (00002478)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 行動観察力 / 保育者支援 / クリッカー / ペンギンメソッド / 可視化グラフ / インクルーシブな保育 / 母親アドバイザー / 教育支援

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research looks at behavior observation skills as teacher skills for children with attending difficulties, an important challenge in school settings. Here, two points are focused on as behavior observation skills of kindergarten teachers: ability to grasp behavior of children from a relational perspective, and ability to grasp child behavior within the overall flow.
In the primary research, efforts were made to read off the behavior observation skills of kindergarten teachers from visualization materials using clickers. The secondary research was carried out as four studies taking the day care setting into account. Thus, a comparative analysis was conducted between day care workers and experts, and as a result it was shown that the day care worker group tends to be episode focused, while the experts tend to be context focused.

Free Research Field

発達臨床心理学