Smiljana Valcl, OŠ Sladki Vrh
To the most of the kids, who attend regular primary school programmes, the common problem is lack of attention and concentration, recollection, visibly-motoric coordination, perception, space orientation and general knowledge. As a mentor of additional assistance in the field of pedagogy I spend most of the time developing and encouraging these fields, which are set as priority goals. At the lessons the children play different mind games, perform exercises for brain memory, attention and concentration (auditory, visual, etc.), and are strengthening their motoric and reading skills. The ICT, however, plays an important role in keeping their attention on a higher level. With the help of four applications (Peak, Elevate Brain Training, Lumosity and Fit Brains Trainer) the students build up and encourage their mental capabilities, memory, coordination, emotions, language, and are facing with solving the problems on an interesting and pleasant way. With the help of Microsoft Office Word tool and searching the net, the students were able to make their own didactical accessories, which are used afterwards at classes. They made the tool for finding a pair (on one piece of a card is a word and on the other the picture), for herbs and spices, deciduous and coniferous trees, flowers, famous Slovenian proverbs, traffic signs, European capitals, which belong to certain country, pairs which they find with matching the country with the car sign, brand of the car together with the name, etc. It is a great challenge working with the children with special needs not only for pedagogy teachers but for all the teachers. However, we are all aware that offering such students a vast choice of different topics which attract their attention and be able to learn these topics on an interesting way arouses their motivation and eagerness to perform the activities in an efficient way.
