Hungarian progress report for the SIGNALS project Marta Korintus, Agnes Nyitrai Ferenc Sidlovics, Judit Podraczky 3-4 February 2015, Budapest meeting

Childcare project Social competences in situations of: – Settling in / adaptation of children to the childcare center – Joint events for children, parents and staff such as children’s day, preparations for holidays, etc. – Daily meetings at drop off and pick up times Local partner: Childcare center in Tétényi Street, 11th District of Budapest

Achievements so far Document analysis – National curriculum framework – Local pedagogical program Focus group discussion Photos taken at joint events Survey- all pedagogues, parents Written notes taken by staff during the settling period for the 5 children chosen

Further tasks Curriculum The written guidelines for settling in children at the centre is considered as the curriculum. Possibly a more elaborated version will be developed if the research results will show that it is needed. Analysis to be done using the evaluation results and the whole research project results Using the Shier model for enhancing children’s participation in decision making

Possible results Identification of weaknesses and strengths of current childcare practice in terms of involving children and parents (i.e. participation) Identification of needs met and needs not met for all agents in the situations studied (children, parents and staff) Identification of competencies needed to redress situations where needs are not met or could be improved Matrix to inform training modul development

Kindergarten project Emerging literacy - the role of fairy tales, the books and the story-telling in development of children: -Story-telling in the families, -Story-telling in the kindergarten, -How kindergarten-pedagogues can support the parents in storytelling… Local Partner: Kindergarten for Students` praxis of Kaposvar University

Achievements so far Document analysis – National curriculum framework – Local pedagogical program Focus group discussion Observations in children’s groups Analysis of students’ diaries of observations Poster presentation at National Conference on Education in Debrecen, 6-8 November 2014

Further tasks Parents’ Forum: monthly meetings with parents to discuss different topics related to emerging literacy Analysis to be done using the evaluation results and the whole research project results Using the Shier model for enhancing children’s participation in decision making

Possible results Identification of weaknesses and strengths of current kindergarten practice in the field of emergent literacy Identification of needs met and needs not met for all agents in the situations studied (children, parents and staff) Identification of competencies needed to redress situations where needs are not met or could be improved Matrix to inform training modul development