Study On Relation Between Children's Attention Development Aged 3-6 And Teachers' Behavior

children aged 3-6; attention development; teachers’ behavior; assessment Attention is one of the important psychological problems influencing children’s academic and social adaptation, and it is more and more important... [ view full abstract ]

children aged 3-6; attention development; teachers’ behavior; assessment

Attention is one of the important psychological problems influencing children’s academic and social adaptation, and it is more and more important in children's daily life and education activities. The development of attention is the key for children in preschool stage to develop many skills such as language, problem solving, social interaction, etc. In the paper, researchers used the task-oriented Comprehensive Attention Assessment System for Preschool Children, the test-retest reliabilities of which were higher than 0.6, to assess nearly 500 children’s concentration of visual and auditory attention and allocation of joint audio-visual attention aged 3-6 in two kindergartens, Putuo District, Shanghai. Through statistical analysis of the result of attention assessment, researchers explored the development level of children’s attention aged 3-6. The paper evaluated teachers’ behavior of different classes using The Simple Interactions Tool carried out by professional evaluators in the third party. Then researchers explored the relation between children’s attention development and teachers' behavior through correlation analysis of the result of teachers’ behavior assessment and the development level of children’s attention of the corresponding class.

The result shows that: (1) Children of different ages had significant differences in the attention evaluation index scores, Children of different sex didn’t have. (2) Children’s attention evaluation index scores of different classes in the same grade were different. (3) Teachers’ scores in different dimensions of The Simple Interactions Tool were related to children’s attention evaluation index scores. Researchers drew a preliminary conclusion: (1) Children’s concentration of visual attention and auditory attention and allocation of joint audio-visual attention aged 3-6 were developing with age increasing, and there was significant age difference in children’s attention evaluation scores, while sex difference wasn’t significant. (2) Kindergarten teachers’ behavior had influence on children’s attention development.