SUPPORTING PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILD’S DEVELOPMENT OF SELF-ESTEEM THROUGH SOCIAL SKILL TRAINING

Abstract

The aim of this research article is to bring theory of child's development through primary school and theory of social skills training into practice. Knowing the background of child's development, can provide us with an answer on their current development milestones and how to support them and their needs. Our focus was on their social skills, more specifically character education. We hypothesize, that children with better knowledge of their personality traits, which can be developed through social skills training, generally perform better in school (academically, emotionally, behaviourally). We selected five activities that promote the targeted topic and carried them out among students from 4^th to 7^th grade. Class teachers were additionally involved in training with their students, as they were responsible for transferring methods of self-esteem promotion through strengthening individuals’ personality traits in everyday school activities. Character education is used as starting point for further self-esteem enhancement.