Key words: education, school, primary class, student, first grade, adaptation, motivation,
psychology, pedagogy.A.M. Shabanova
Adaptation of first-graders to school
Summary
The presented paper is devoted to finding out and analyzing the opinions of primary
education teachers on the causes of the unsuccessful adaptation of current schoolchildren to
the beginning of systematic education. To find out the above issues, pedagogical research was
carried out at selected primary schools in Slovakia. The implementation of the research and
the subsequent analysis of the research results confirmed that the length of teachers’
pedagogical practice has a statistically significant effect on their views on the causes of
adaptation difficulties in emotional, social, intellectual, and psychomotor areas of children’s
school readiness.
