Circle Times Research Articles

Unplugged Activity and Cognitive Style on The Speaking Abilities of Early Children

The ability to speak well and purposefully must be instilled in children from an early age. This is possible through the learning process at school using interesting learning methods and media according to the child's cognitive style. Because spoken language conveyed through speaking is a tool for expressing thoughts and feelings and a means of communication between humans. This will help improve children's speaking ability. This research aims to determine the differences in speaking abilities between students using the unplugged activity method and those using the beyond center and circle times (BCCT). Determine the differences in speaking ability between students with a field-dependence cognitive style and those with a field-independence cognitive style. The researcher tests the interaction between learning methods and cognitive style regarding speaking ability. This research uses an experimental design. The subjects were PGRI Jambon Kindergarten students (TK B1) and (TK B2) who studied the theme of Animals, totaling 44 children. The cognitive style was measured using a questionnaire based on the Children Embedded Figure Test (CEFT). Data analysis of relationships and interactions between variables used the two-way ANOVA test. The research results show that differences influence speaking ability between students using unplugged activity learning and BCCT. Some differences influence the student’s speaking abilities with a field-independence cognitive style and those with a field-dependence cognitive style. There is an interaction between learning methods and cognitive style regarding speaking ability.

One-on-one instruction in a fully inclusive preschool: A single case research design study

This study is about five children with disabilities in a fully inclusive preschool and their involvement in learning throughout teacher-initiated instruction sessions. Involvement matters for the children and refers to attendance, concentration on tasks and child’s interest in preschool activities. Its first aim is to investigate the children’s involvement in learning during group instruction sessions, such as circle times. Since their involvement is not observed to be high, the second aim of the study is to investigate and discuss (a) whether the children’s involvement in learning changes when instruction sessions are provided one-on-one and (b) if one-on-one instruction and full inclusion work together. One-on-one instruction refers to a teacher instructing a child and is often for children with difficulties in learning. The design used was a single case research study. The teachers also shared their views, and these were collected. The results show positive change across participants. For all children, the PEM was 100%, which is indicative of very effective intervention. The intervention provided new insights relating to children’s knowledge and one-on-one instruction in a fully inclusive preschool. The study can form a basis for important preschool discussions.

Community Empowerment Through Beyond Center And Circle (Bcct) Approach At Sdn Kaplogan 2

The form of community service carried out by students is real work lectures (KKN). In an effort to educate the nation's life, one of the activities that needs to be carried out by KKN students is activities in the field of education. For this reason, teaching activities are carried out with the aim that KKN students are able to compile programs of community service activities in the educational aspect. the role of Real Work College Students in the Field of Education as a Form of Community Service in the Village. This activity can be carried out properly. In education, of course we don't just teach but we also apply the Beyond Center and Circle (BCCT) system in the learning process, because with the BCCT learning process we can develop creative and innovative aspects of child development so that it can be implemented in the learning process. The learning model must be able to stimulate all aspects of the child's intelligence. There are several learning models that can be used in the learning process. One of the learning models proposed here is: The beyond center and circle time (BCCT) learning model. The Beyond Center & Circle times (BCCT) method is a method or approach in providing education that aims to stimulate all aspects of children's intelligence (plural intelligences) through directed play activities.

The effects of gamification method and cognitive style on children’s early reading ability

Fun and pervasive education into students’ daily lives is an important part of children’s development. Learning methods and cognitive styles are one of the important aspects of the dynamics of learning. This research was a quasi-experimental study using the pretest-posttest of a nonequivalent control group design. Therefore, research based on these is expected to impact students’ early reading ability. There are 20 students in the experimental and 20 students in the control classes. The age range is 5–6 years, with heterogeneous gender. The experimental group used the gamification method, while the control group used the Beyond Center and Circle Times (BCCT) method. The gamification method and students with field independence cognitive style are proven to have superiority in improving early reading ability.

Early childhood mathematics: a case study

ABSTRACT The aim is to investigate early childhood mathematics in a preschool unit in Sweden. A mixed-method research approach and a case study research design were used. Three preschool staff members and 19 children were enrolled. Data were collected by means of observations and a focus group interview. Numerical and thematic analyses were conducted. The mean value of ratings of early childhood mathematics in the preschool unit approached ‘good’ (m = 4.5) and can be described by means of six themes: one to ten mathematics; a short question and a short answer; embedded mathematical concepts in everyday routines and play activities; whole-group mathematical circle times incorporating support for younger children and those who are struggling; accessible robots, materials and tools, and small group mathematics. The study could form a basis for discussions on such matters as early childhood mathematics and differentiation in preschools, both in Sweden and in other countries.

Circle Is for Everyone: Using UDL to Promote Inclusion During Circle Times

Circle Is for Everyone: Using UDL to Promote Inclusion During Circle Times

Characteristic changes in PHBH isothermal crystallization monofilaments by the effect of heat treatment and dip-coating in various solvents

PHBH monofilament was fabricated by the melt-spinning process followed one-step-drawing after isothermal crystallization (IC) near Tg for 24, 48, and 72 h. A feasible way to improve the functionality of monofilament is the incorporation of natural compounds as an antibacterial reagents such as propolis. Moreover, various solvents were used to evaluate the penetration of propolis into PHBH IC monofilaments. The effect of heat treatment by various solvents such as acetone, ethanol, hexane, propanol as well as water, and air in physical change of PHBH IC fibers have been studied. The change in shrinkage and diameter of fibers found to be highly dependent on the temperature of each solvents. The dip-coating as a method to incorporate propolis reagent in ethanol and acetone solution was also evaluated. Acetone-propolis (AP) solution showed excellent penetration into PHBH IC monofilaments. Furthermore, by dip-coating for 5, 10, 15 circle times in AP solution at 50 °C affected the physical properties, mechanical properties, and inner structure of PHBH IC monofilaments. The length of IC 24 and 72 h fibers after dip-coating for 15 circle times shrank 25 and 26% from the initial length, respectively. Thus, the diameter of IC fibers expanded and the weight of IC fibers increased as a consequence of the propolis reagent settle in voids of IC monofilaments. IC 24 and 72 h monofilaments after dip-coating showed a reduction in tensile strength and an increase in elongation at break. The crystallinity (WAXD) of IC 24 and 72 h monofilaments was decreased and led to an increase in the thickness of the lamellar crystal (SAXS) by applying dip-coating for 15 circle times. The antibacterial test demonstrated that PHBH IC fibers containing propolis resulted in inhibitors against the growth of Staphylococcus aureus. Additionally, the characteristic changes in PHBH IC fibers can apply for reference as further research regarding drug delivery or the dyeing process by various solvents.

Development of a chemometric methodology based on FTIR spectra for paper dating

The dating of documents is one of the pending issues to be resolved in many fields. Although there are a variety of analytical methodologies focused on the inks of documents to estimate the dating of documents, the analysis of documents itself attracted little attention. A non-destructive method based on Fourier transformed infrared (FTIR) was proposed in this research to estimate the dating of documents. First, FTIR spectra of journals dated from 1940 to 1980, naturally aged and conserved in the China Agriculture University library were collected. Second, the least squares support vector machines (LS-SVM) was applied to distinguish documents of different dating, and the accuracy was 99.26%. In order to find interested wavenumber that influence the dating process of documents, sparse partial least squares (sPLS) was applied to select informative variables. The average of selected variables was 483 after 100 runs, and the selected variables were focused on the absorption peaks of inorganic components and cellulose. Splicing sPLS with LS-SVM (sPLS–LS-SVM) built model to see the effective of selected variables. Average accuracy of sPLS–LS-SVM model was 99.34%, even the best result could reach 100.00% after 100 circle times. The present work indicates that the possibility of FTIR combined with chemometrics can estimate the dating of documents accurately. Additionally, the wavenumber which influence the dating of documents are mostly focused on cellulose and inorganic components.

„...mér má finnast öðruvísi...“ Hugleikur – samræður til náms í leikskóla

Í þessari grein er fjallað um starfsþróunarverkefnið Hugleik – samræður til náms í leikskóla. Um er að ræða verkefni sem unnið var í samstarfi leikskólans Lundarsels á Akureyri, Miðstöðvar skólaþróunar og kennaradeildar Háskólans á Akureyri. Megintilgangur verkefnisins var að starfsfólk leikskólans lærði um samræður og efldi leikni sína til að nota samræðuaðferðir með börnum í daglegu skólastarfi með það að markmiði að efla með börnum hæfni til að draga ályktanir, taka afstöðu og efla rökhugsun. Margvíslegar rannsóknir hafa farið fram á samræðum sem sýna að þær hvetja börn til að ígrunda og skerpa vitund þeirra um eigin hugsunaraðferðir. Samræðuaðferðir fela t.d. í sér að spyrja spurninga sem hvetja til ígrundunar í þeim tilgangi að efla með börnum gagnrýna hugsun og hæfni til að ræða saman. Verkefnið fellur vel að hæfniáherslum Aðalnámskrár leikskóla (2011) eins og þær birtast í almennum hluta þar sem lögð er áhersla á að skólar efli með börnum og ungu fólki hæfni til að afla gagna og upplýsinga og beita gagnrýninni hugsun við mótun og miðlun hugmynda á skapandi hátt. Í Aðalnámskrá leikskóla (2011) er m.a. lögð áhersla á að í leikskóla sé skapaður vettvangur þar sem allir taki virkan þátt í samræðum um almenn málefni, hlusti hver á annan, skiptist á skoðunum og taki þátt í heimspekilegum samræðum. Starfsþróunarverkefnið náði yfir tveggja ára tímabil og voru alls haldnar 8 samræðusmiðjur, auk þess sem starfsfólk leikskólans skráði niður valdar samræðustundir og tók þátt í rýnihópaviðtölum. Sagt verður frá hugmyndafræðilegum grunni verkefnisins, umfangi, inntaki, aðferðum og verkfærum. Auk þess verður greint frá niðurstöðum skráninga og rýnihópaviðtala. Niðurstöður gefa starfsfólki leikskóla tilefni til að ígrunda og endurskoða starfshætti með það að markmiði að efla samræður með börnum í skólastarfinu.

IMPLEMENTASI STRATEGI PEMBELAJARAN SENTRA UNTUK GANGGUAN PSIKIS (EMOSI DAN SOSIAL) PADA ANAK USI DINI

Center-based learning is a learning strategy that is performed within "circle times" and play centers. A circle is the moment when the teacher sits with the child in a circular position to give the child a foothold done before and after play. A play center is a child's play zone or area equipped with a set of play tools, which serves as a foothold of the treated environment to develop the entire basic potential of the protégé in various aspects of development in a balanced manner. In the center play there are three types of play, namely functional play, role playing, and constructive play. There are things to do in the play center, namely center play, classroom management, learning procedures, and assessment.psychic disorders experienced by early childhood namely emotional and social disorders. This type of emotional disorder is weak afection, anxiety, hypersensitivity, and phobia, and there are several factors that cause the problem of emotional disorders. The types of social disorders are maladjustment, egocentrism, isolated, aggressive child, negativism, quarrels, mocking and bullying, conscing behavior and prejudice and factors that result in the onset of the problem of social disorder.

Classical de Sitter Solutions of 10-Dimensional Supergravity.

We find four-dimensional de Sitter compactifications of type IIA supergravity by directly solving the 10-dimensional equations of motion. In the simplest examples, the internal space has the topology of a circle times an Einstein manifold of negative curvature. An orientifold acts on the circle with two fixed loci, at which an O8_{-} and an O8_{+} plane sit. These orientifold planes are fully backreacted and localized. While the solutions are numerical, the charge and tension of the orientifold planes can be verified analytically. Our solutions have moduli at tree level and can be made parametrically weakly coupled and weakly curved. Their fate in string theory depends on quantum corrections.

Von Neumann’s inequality for commuting operator-valued multishifts

Recently, Hartz proved that every commuting contractive classical multishift with non-zero weights satisfies the matrix-version of von Neumann's inequality. We show that this result does not extend to the class of commuting operator-valued multishifts with invertible operator weights. In fact, we show that if A and B are commuting contractive d-tuples of operators such that B satisfies the matrix-version of von Neumann's inequality and (1,..., 1) is in the algebraic spectrum of B, then the tensor product A circle times B satisfies von Neumann's inequality if and only if A satisfies von Neumann's inequality. We also exhibit several families of operator-valued multishifts for which von Neumann's inequality always holds.

Ground-state configuration of neutron-rich Al35 via Coulomb breakup

The ground-state configuration of Al-35 has been studied via Coulomb dissociation (CD) using the LAND-FRS setup (GSI, Darmstadt) at a relativistic energy of similar to 403 MeV/nucleon. The measured inclusive differential CD cross section for Al-35, integrated up to 5.0 MeV relative energy between the Al-34 core and the neutron using a Pb target, is 78(13) mb. The exclusive measured CD cross section that populates various excited states of 34Al is 29(7) mb. The differential CD cross section of Al-35 -> Al-34 + n has been interpreted in the light of a direct breakup model, and it suggests that the possible ground-state spin and parity of Al-35 could be, tentatively, 1/2+ or 3/2(+) or 5/2(+). The valence neutrons, in the ground state of Al-35, may occupy a combination of either l = 3,0 or l = 1,2 orbitals coupled with the Al-34 core in the ground and isomeric state(s), respectively. This hints of a particle-hole configuration of the neutron across the magic shell gaps at N = 20,28 which suggests narrowing the magic shell gap. If the 5/2+ is the ground-state spin-parity of Al-35 as suggested in the literature, then the major ground-state configuration of Al-35 is a combination of Al-34(g. s.; 4(-)) circle times upsilon(p3/2) and Al-34(isomer; 1(+)) circle times upsilon(d3/2) states. The result from this experiment has been compared with that from a previous knockout measurement and a calculation using the SDPF-M interaction.

Navigation of attention concentration strategy as early childhood teachers to use in circle times

Navigation of attention concentration strategy as early childhood teachers to use in circle times

Children's Participation in Ritualized Circle Time - Ritual in music sessions in the multicultural kindergarten: How does it comply with children's right to participation?

This article addresses the possibly contradictory relationship between children's right to participate and ritualized circle time. It presents an analysis from an arts-based research inquiry within self-study, conducted during circle times in multicultural kindergartens (children aged three to six). The focus of the analysis is aspects of the ritualized song circle time that might enhance or undermine children's right to participation. Examples from videotaped material and interviews with kindergarten teachers are presented in the context of Small's (1998) and Dissanayake's (2008, 2014) notions of ritual, and of Bae's (2009) and Eide et al.'s (2012) understandings of children's participation. Results indicate that a structured and ritualized song circle time enhances children's participation in a multicultural kindergarten.

Direct experimental evidence for a multiparticle-hole ground state configuration of deformedMg33

The first direct experimental evidence of a multiparticle-hole ground state configuration of the neutron-rich Mg-33 isotope has been obtained via intermediate energy (400 A MeV) Coulomb dissociation measurement. The major part similar to(70 +/- 13)% of the cross section is observed to populate the excited states of Mg-32 after the Coulomb breakup of Mg-33. The shapes of the differential Coulomb dissociation cross sections in coincidence with different core excited states favor that the valence neutron occupies both the s(1/2) and p(3/2) orbitals. These experimental findings suggest a significant reduction and merging of sd-pf shell gaps at N similar to 20 and 28. The ground state configuration of Mg-33 is predominantly a combination of Mg-32(3.0,3.5MeV; 2(-), 1(-)) circle times nu(s1/2), Mg-32(2.5MeV; 2(+)) circle times nu(p3/2), and Mg-32(0; 0(+)) circle times nu(p3/2). The experimentally obtained quantitative spectroscopic information for the valence neutron occupation of the s and p orbitals, coupled with different core states, is in agreement with Monte Carlo shell model (MCSM) calculation using 3 MeV as the shell gap at N = 20.

Effect of sevoflurane and halothane anesthesia on cognitive function and immune function in young rats.

In the current study, we scrutinized the effect of sevoflurane and halothane on cognitive and immune function in young rats. The rats were divided into following groups: sevoflurane, halothane and sevoflurane + halothane groups, respectively. The rats were regularly treated with the pre-determined treatment. We also scrutinized the serum proinflammatory cytokines including IL-10, IL-4 and IL-2; brain level IL-1β; hippocampal neuronal apoptosis concentration were estimated. The water maze test was performed in rats for the estimation of cognitive ability. During the water maze test, on the 1st day the sevoflurane group showed the latency; sevoflurane and sevoflurane + halothane group demonstrated the declined latency gradually as compared to the control group rats after the 3 days. The latency of the control, halothane, sevoflurane + halothane group rats showed the reduced latency and also showed the reduced crossing circle times. The hippocampal neuron apoptosis was significantly increased in halothane and sevoflurane + halothane group as compared to control group rats, respectively. Control group rats demonstrated the increased neuron apoptosis. The proinflammatory cytokines including IL-10 and IL-4 was significantly higher in sevoflurane, halothane and sevoflurane + halothane group rats after anesthesia and the whole brain IL-1β was significantly decrease in the sevoflurane, halothane and sevoflurane + halothane as compared to control group. Sevoflurane can inhibit the anesthesia effect of halothane on the immune and cognitive function of rats.

PELAKSANAAN PEMBELAJARAN BCCT BAGI ANAK USIA DINI; STUDY PELAKSANAAN BCCT DI TK ISLAM MUJAHIDIN PONTIANAK

Nowadays, there are a lot of pre-school educational institution such as Kindergarten (TK), Raudhatul Atfhal (RA), Playgrounds, Children Care, Early Childhood Education (PAUD), and so forth. Furthermore, in these educational institution, study method and approach is developed based on earl childhood characters. One of the ways is named Beyond Centres and Circle Times (BCCT). Moreover, the BCCT is theoretically a study approach which is held at the centre or cirlce. The children apparently learn something based on their themes and centre. Besides, there are still few pre-school institutions performed this model on their schools because it provides more human resources, spaces, and budget. In Pontianak, some schools have applied this method, and one of them is TK Islam Mujahidin.

Cohomology and Hodge theory on symplectic manifolds: III

arXiv:1402.0427v2 [math.SG] 2 May 2014 Cohomology and Hodge Theory on Symplectic Manifolds: III Chung-Jun Tsai, Li-Sheng Tseng and Shing-Tung Yau February 3, 2014 Abstract We introduce filtered cohomologies of differential forms on symplectic manifolds. They generalize and include the cohomologies discussed in Paper I and II as a subset. The filtered cohomologies are finite-dimensional and can be associated with differential elliptic complexes. Algebraically, we show that the filtered cohomologies give a two-sided resolution of Lefschetz maps, and thereby, they are directly related to the kernels and cokernels of the Lefschetz maps. We also introduce a novel, non-associative product operation on differential forms for symplectic manifolds. This product generates an A ∞ -algebra structure on forms that underlies the filtered cohomologies and gives them a ring structure. As an application, we demonstrate how the ring structure of the filtered cohomologies can distinguish different symplectic four-manifolds in the context of a circle times a fibered three-manifold. Contents 1 Introduction 2 Preliminaries Operations on differential forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Filtered forms and differential operators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Short exact sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

An Approach for Optimizing the Preparation and Production Planning Process in Single Item Production

The high variability of customer expectations results in the complexity of product development and manufacturing processes, which exists obviously in all types of production systems. One of these production systems with a high level of complexity, is single-item production, which is addressed in this paper. The preparation process in single-item production is usually wasteful and complicated. The question is: how can a product be produced most efficiently in the single-item production process.Recently, due to the increasing application of variant-oriented product modelling, the efficiency of preparation processes has been increased. But deficiency of harmonisation between design and production structures limits the automation of the preparation and planning process after the design process. In this paper, we introduce an approach to restructure the production processes and also harmonise the design and production structures in single-item production system. Due to this structure, a parts list has been adapted. This adaptation promotes the automation of the preparation and planning process. To achieve this goal, ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) and PDM (Product Data Management) systems should not only be configured but also interconnected on the base of this introduced method. As a result, we put forward an integrated model to minimize circle times in single-item production.