MUSIC ACTIVITIES WITHIN NIKOLA TESLA CENTRE (NTC) PROGRAMME AND DEVELOPMENT OF FINE MOTOR SKILLS WITH PRESCHOOL AGE CHILDREN
Keywords:
music activities, association through pictures, fine motor skills, preschool childrenAbstract
Children's development is a multidisciplinary problem. The NTC learning system is based on starting points of modern neurological findings on a child’s development and learning. An empirical experimental research was conducted in Banja Luka kindergartens, dealing with the issue of testing the application elements of the NTC programme through regular educational work. The aim of the research is establishing improvement of fine motor skills elements with preschool children through musical NTC activities. The sample included 74 children of middle and senior kindergarten age. Using an instrument for monitoring fine motor skills development (fine motor skills monitoring – FMSM), through carefully designed musical exercises (E-factor), there was significant progress in this field through the NTC activities that we implemented. After just one month of practice playing the children managed to perform most of the given tasks related to voluntary control of both hands fingers movement, which they were not able to do before. This is also indicated by remarkable statistical significance of the calculated t-ratio of the achieved results arithmetic means at the final measuring by FMSM instrument for K and E group.
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