Vaikai, lankę Klaipėdos universiteto eksperimentinį darželį „Šaltinėlis“, toliau stebimi visą mokymosi pradinėje mokykloje laikotarpį. Šiame darbe pateikiami lankiusiųjų eksperimentinį darželį ir kontrolinės grupės pirmosios klasės mokinių motyvacijos tyrimo rezultatai. Gauti duomenys rodo, kad eksperimentinį darželį lankiusiųjų vaikų grupėje daugelis motyvacinių adaptacijos mokykloje rodiklių yra geresni

The negative events in society, such as suicides among the teen-agers, crime, and aggression of children indicate inability of young people to find proper adaptation in society and force to seek for these events and make the first steps to wards them. The reasons accounting for them are reflected in the following expression: "Like people, like society..." in this case like parents, like children, because parents are the only and the closest persons for the child, representing society and involved in training personality according to provisions and moral dominating in it. Children acquire the first skills of adaptation in their families by communicating with their parents or other people around them. These first steps lie in the family, from which the children come to the day care institutions, and later to school. Namely, the authors of these negative character traits i.e. the parents and later the teachers, who because of ignorance, huge love or upbringing, which restricts all the vital functions, permitted formation of these emphasized character features, which interfere with the proper adaptation in the society. The parents and the teachers passed maturity themselves and got knowledge of upbringing from the environment, which was comprised of society as well as from the scientific - pedagogical literature. Therefore representatives of the scientific-pedagogical field have the responsibility and should analyse and correct their mistakes. In accordance with their competence they should provide knowledge to other groups of society. It is necessary to provide parents with the knowledge about formation of personality's character. Parents are the persons, who are mostly interested in the well-being of their children at school and in capabilities to find proper adaptation in a new situation. Namely, they are the ones who prepare background for the formation of psychologically sane new generation.

The article is an analysis of teachers' competences to educate children's coping skills. The objective of the study is to assess the competences of teachers and the peculiarities of children's adaptation at school who took part in the Zippy and Friends programme, their general emotional state and their capability to apply the acquired skills to overcome difficulties in a critical situation...

In recent years increasing number of researchers emphasize the importance of social school readiness of children [9]. Effective adaptation of a child in the school environment to the large extent depends on his / her ability to build and maintain adaptive interpersonal relationships with peers and teachers and to meet academic requirements. An important role in the process of meeting these requirements is played by social skills of a child. Previous research revealed significant links between children’s social skills and their popularity in class [11], relationships with teachers [13] and academic achievement. [2; 10; 15]. The purpose of the study is to determine the relationship between social readiness of first grade pupils and school adaptation indicators, including popularity in class, relationship with a teacher, and academic achievement. Subjects were 84 first-graders attending three schools in Kaunas. Age of the subjects was ranging from 6 to 8 years. Subjects included 39 girls and 45 boys. Social school readiness of pupils was measured by Child Social School Readiness Scale (CSSRS) completed by class teachers. Class teachers completed the CSSRS about each of the pupils participating in the study. This scale was developed on the basis of the EDI (Early Developement Instrument) developed by M. Janus et al. (2007) and the BUSSE-SR (Social Emotional School Readiness Scale) developed by C. Bustin (2007). Measure of popularity in class was obtained by asking the subjects to select from the list of children participating in the study three kids, whom s/he would prefer to be friends with. Teacherpupil relationship was assessed by asking teachers to divide the pupils into five groups in terms of how much they like working with them. [...]