Razvoj modela materialno-tehničnega podpornega centra kot temeljne baze za eksperimentalno delo v okviru predmeta naravoslovje in tehnika

Abstract

Developmental model of a material and technical support centre functioning as a fundamental base for experimental work in the subject science and technics. The article presents a model of material and technical support to experimental work in the subject Science and Technics taught in the fourth and fifth grades of elementary school (children between 9 and 11 years of age). The model is based on a research which studied material support in the execution of experimental activities in the subject Science and Technics. The study involved 497 classroom teachers of the fourth and fifth grades of elementary school, of which 32.20 per cent came from the Western cohesion regions of Slovenia and 67.80 per cent from the Eastern cohesion regions of Slovenia (Delčnjak S., 2008). The largest obstacles in executing experimental work at the class level are: insufficient material support, collection, preparation, completion, storage, groups consisting of too many pupils, poor classroom conditions, and lack of an assistant. Based on our research we can say with confidence that primary school teachers need better quality material and HR support in teaching science and technology. On the basis of these assumptions as well as on certain personal experience and that of others, we have developed a model of material and technical support for experimental work at the class level, the concept of which is in line with institutional organisation.