The effectiveeness of school supportive education

This study has been prepared by assessing the level of readiness to school about the subjects of Language, Psychomotor, Emotions, the developments of Social and Cognition and to support the development of students who are incapable in those fields of the first grade students who started Primary School.The Kiel Test of Admission to School has been utilized in this study, which is used in Germany to assess the level of readiness of newcomers to Primary School. After the pre-application of the test, individualized supporting educational programme was applied to students who are incapable in the fields of language, psychomotor, emotions, social and cognition. After the supporting educational programme, the last application of Kiel Test of Admission to School was applied and the effects of educational supporting on the development of children were discussed.In the pre-application of the Admission to School, the research group consisted of 10 students with the method of sampling among the 87 first grade students who started Primary School, chosen in random, among the Primary Schools in Bolu.The study has been done as an action research. The data of the research have been analyzed with the descriptive content analyze, which is used in qualitative research. At the end of the research, during the pre-application;Because of the positive developments observed,1.For the development of languagea)In all the 8 students who have problems in listening and understanding,b)In the 6 out of 7 students who have problems skills of speaking and expressing themselves,c)In the 4 out of 5 students for the skills of reading,d)In the 5 out of 6 students for the skills of writing,It can be said that the research has been effective on the students? language development.2.Form the view of pschomoto developments, because of the positive developments observed in the 4 out of 5 students who have problems in general motor skills and 7 out of 6 students who have problems in the fine motor developments, it can be said that the research has been successful on the pscho-motor developments of the children.3.Because of the positive developments observed in the 5 out of 6 students who have social problems, it can be said that the research has been successful on social developments of the children.4.Because of the positive developments observed in the 9 out of 10 students who have emotional problems, it can be said that the research has been successful on social developments of the children5.As positive developments have been observedFor the cognitive skillsa)For the knowledge and skillsi.in the 1 student who have problems on colour knowledgeii.in the 7 out of 8 students who have problems on knowledge of numbersiii.in the 5 out of 6 students who have problems on the knowledge of geometrical objectsb)in all the 7 students who have problems on skills of logical thinkingc)in the 6 out of 7 students who have problems on visual perception, the skills of remembering and perception,It can be said that the research has been effective on the cognitive developments of the students.According to the results of the study, it has been thought that the following suggestions will enlighten the studies that will be conducted in order to approach students holistically and support them in their developmental areas.1. If every school makes use of the test of school admission in order to know students who start school, they will serve their students better. For this reason, teachers must be informed about how to do these evaluations and in what way students should be examined. So, as every teacher gets detailed information about their students, their approaches to students and teaching activities may be different.2. Apart from school guidance units, some units can be formed to give supportive education to students with normal level and capacity but unsupported. To make such a practice, teachers called ?standby? may help classroom teachers for these students.3. The work aiming at promoting school and parents cooperation should not be limited with meetings with parents. If parents do not communicate, teachers or the school must reach parents because the teaching practices done at school must be supported at home as well.Key words: Test of Admission to School,Educational Programme of Individualized Supporting , Language Development, Psychomotor Development, Emotional Development, Social Development, Cognitive Development