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Curriculum & Instruction
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Name three characteristics of high quality early childhood programs.
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Using essential theme criteria, which would be the most appropriate theme for a group of suburban preschool- age children living in Michigan?
a. Pockets
b. Santa Claus
c. Vehicles
d. The Dessert
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By 2006 it is expected that children who do not speak English will make up approximately what percentage of the early childhood population in the United States?
a. 100%
b. 60%
c. 35%
d. Less than 15%
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Which childcare center will have the greatest amount of parental participation?
a. The center where regular first Tuesday of the month parent meetings are held.
b. The center that has staff committed to parent involvement and trained for effective interaction with family members.
c. The center that promotes big name specialists in child development.
d. The center that has mostly families with two parents.
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Which of the following themes would be LEAST appropriate for a group of 4-year-olds who live in the inner city?
a. Family
b. Birds
c. Community Helpers
d. The Farm
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Mrs. Lederhosen was busy at her desk when Josh's mother came into the room. She looked up at this stranger and said, "Do you want something?" Josh's mother, who was cleanly but poorly dressed asked, "How is Josh doing in school?" Mrs. Lederhosen responded with a succinct report, indicating that Josh was quiet and did not bother anybody. She added that he could pay attention better during group time than he had been. Then she looked at her watch. Josh's mom nodded her head and left. She did not return to school again. Who should be held accountable?
a. The mother, because parents should be expected to call ahead for appointments.
b. The mother because not attending other functions indicated her lack of interest.
c. The teacher was responsible because her responses were unfriendly and indifferent.
d. The teacher because she knew so little about Josh.
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What is true about the learning that occurs in families?
a. It is most significant during the first three years of life.
b. It is an important element of children's education.
c. It is significant for social learning, but has little impact on academics.
d. a and c
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Which of the following is an example of a theme that could be used with kindergarten children?
a. A series of mathematics games in which children use play money to learn addition and subtraction.
b. A series of aesthetic, cognitive, social, and language activities that center on the topic of plants.
c. A series of art activities in which children make posters to demonstrate how mixing paints creates different colors.
d. A dramatic play activity in which teachers and parents supply clothing from a variety of cultures.
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Why don"t parents participate in some early childhood programs?
a. They may misunderstand what professionals say and do.
b. They may feel unwelcome in the environment because of their own school experience.
c. Teachers often place a low priority on parental involvement because they believe it is fruitless.
d. All of the above
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Which of the following statements is NOT true about children who experience low quality programs?
a. They are often children from low-income families.
b. They do okay as long as their parents spend a lot of extra time with them at home.
c. They are likely to have poor social skills.
d. They tend to exhibit behavior problems.
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Which of the following is the most suitable theme for preschool age children?
a. Predicting the weather
b. Electricity
c. Plants in the classroom
d. Gravity
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Which of the following is less likely to achieve an effective two-way communication between the program and the families?
a. Create a notebook that family members and staff communicate as it is sent back and forth between the child's home and the program.
b. Carry out home visits to get to know children and family members in the home environment.
c. Structure family conferences to emphasize collaborations between members and teachers.
d. Send home a regular newsletter.
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Which of these is the best indicator of a high quality program for children?
a. Adults have specialized training in child development.
b. The rooms are pretty and clean.
c. The program has testimonials from the people enrolled there.
d. The program includes the words developmentally appropriate in its program literature.
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Children's books, textbooks, and the internet are all useful resources for developing TFPs related to a theme.
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How can you promote family involvement?
a. Provide calendars that describe simple daily or weekly learning activities that families can try at home with their children.
b. Restrict your family contact to formal conversations between family members and program personnel.
c. Make available a toy-lending library for family use that includes a variety of appropriate educational materials.
d. a & c
e. All of them
Q:
Which of these is a distinguishing characteristic of the early childhood professional?
a. Working with young children.
b. Receiving a higher salary than is received by non-professionals.
c. A college degree.
d. Specialized training in early childhood.
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To achieve maximum efficiency and to make sure to secure the props they need, teachers should plan a year of themes in advance.
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What is characteristic of effective family involvement?
a. The program should plan the events that require all families to be involved in the same ways, at the same time, or to the same degree.
b. Once you build a trusting relationship between programs and families, it is not necessary to maintain contact.
c. There is a match between what programs are designed to accomplish and what families need as well as between the strategies implemented and those to which family members feel receptive.
d. All of them
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Which of the following would NOT be considered an early childhood education program?
a. Head Start
b. Even Start
c. Religious preschool
d. Second grade
e. Girl Scouts
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Themes should last about one week each.
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Which of the following is an effective type of family involvement in early childhood education?
a. School provides family members with idea for helping children learn at home.
b. Family members attend workshops or other programs for their own education or training.
c. Parent newsletters
d. Family members take decision-making roles on advisory councils or on other committees.
e. All of them
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What statement best describes the role of families in the early education process?
a. Parents follow the lead of professionals in educating children.
b. The role varies as children mature.
c. Families are considered children's first-teachers.
d. How involved parents are in their child's program depends on the parents'
education.
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Hands-on-activities and firsthand experiences mean the same thing.
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School personnel welcome fathers and generally make extra efforts to involve non-custodial fathers in most programs for young children.
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"The professional is never a "˜finished" product." Select the most appropriate interpretation of that statement.
a. Professionals go to school off and on their entire careers.
b. Professionals continuously work to stay current in the field by reading, reflecting, and attending professional development activities.
c. Professionals must obtain a CDA credential and then update it every five years.
d. The professional must work to attain the highest early childhood level " Level VI.
Q:
'Cows are mammals', is an example of a fact.
Q:
Teachers may feel a lack of trust when parents are better consumers of educational services and when they become policy makers.
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According to the NAEYC Code of Ethical Conduct which one of the following responsibilities is most important?
a. We shall support the rights of children with special needs.
b. Above all, we shall not harm children.
c. We shall not participate in practices that discriminate against children and
families.
d. We shall respect the uniqueness of each child.
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The kindergarten curriculum is planned around a letter each week. This is appropriate theme planning as described in your text.
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Parents rarely blame the schools for lack of children's success.
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The population of the United States is changing. Which of the following conditions is NOT identified in your textbook as one of the challenges created by these circumstances?
a. Many parents from other cultures will not be interested in education.
b. Many children will speak languages other than English.
c. Children will come from varied cultural backgrounds.
d. Children will come from varied socioeconomic backgrounds.
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The first-grade curriculum requires all children to learn about the library. The library would make an appropriate theme as described in your text.
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Professional teachers and administrators do not tend to blame family members for the behavior of children in school.
Q:
When does early childhood begin?
a. At birth.
b. Upon the child's entry into childcare.
c. Upon the child's entry into preschool.
d. Upon the child's entry into kindergarten.
e. This varies from one ethnic group to another.
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Children provide the best source of thematic ideas for teachers to plan around.
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Substantial numbers of teachers assume that family members are unable, uninterested, or unwilling to engage in meaningful involvement and do not expend efforts to make this happen.
Q:
An early childhood professional is someone who works with children ages:
a. Preschool to second grade
b. Four to eight
c. Birth to eight
d. Birth to five
Q:
Close contact with families leads to family identification with the program, and appreciation of teacher efforts.
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Quality is determined primarily by what children are expected to learn in the early childhood program in which they are enrolled.
Q:
The fieldwork portion of the Project Approach occurs in Phase II.
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Family participation has been linked to more complex child language skills, greater problem-solving abilities, increased academic performance and other positive outcomes.
Q:
Most American parents cite quality as a key factor in selecting an early childhood program for their child.
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What are the effects of pretend play in language and literacy? Identify 5 different effects.
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A parent must participate in the classroom regularly in order to be really involved.
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Children who attend high quality early childhood programs are more likely to continue in school longer than is true for children in poor quality programs.
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What are some strategies that will support children's respect for other children's play and construction?
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Mr. Reif sent home a newsletter to the parents of the kindergarten children that included a simple, but detailed description of what a parent conference usually looked like and included some sample questions that he might ask the parents and other question that parents might ask him. It is likely that first-time parents would feel welcome and more comfortable than in one where this is not done.
Q:
The federal government funds most early childhood programs.
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Explain the difference between fighting and rough and tumble play.
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When family members seem to be unresponsive, the teacher would be wise not to continue to offer suggestions for home-based participation.
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When we say that in high quality programs staffing is stable, we mean that the same caregiver stays with the same children long enough to establish warm, loving relationships.
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What is the difference between story reenactment and pretend play with fictional roles?
Q:
Describe the benefits of observational assessment.
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The NAEYC Code of Ethical Conduct is designed to notify parents regarding expectations for professionals in early childhood.
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What are the elements of pretend play? Define each one.
Q:
What is an ecomap?
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The National Association for the Education of Young Children defines early childhood as the preschool years.
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Which strategy will be most productive in supporting construction play related to a pet unit?
a. Place an ample supply of materials in open shelving and wait for the children to do something with them. Give assistance as needed. Answer any questions.
b. Copy and enlarge the pattern for making a dog that you have found in a published resource. Ask children to follow the directions carefully. Help individual children and replace the pattern piece if one child messes up.
c. Ask a dog owner to bring a dog into the classroom. Encourage children to look carefully at various parts of the body. Point out anything they might have missed. Later ask children to record in some way the dog visit.
d. Stop children from making mistakes if they are not recording their learning accurately. Make them start over after they have more information about what they are doing. If this does not work, they can sit and wait till the others are finished.
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Explain the difference between the "halo" effect and the leniency factor as described in your text.
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There is more than one path to becoming an early childhood professional.
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A group of four year olds had been playing flower shop successfully for several days and Ms. Grausam has noted their flagging interest. What strategy would be the best to use in this instance to promote and expand this play?
a. Provide tissue paper and a wagon with a "Delivery Sign" attached to the back.
b. Ask the group why Jefferson is not involved in the play.
c. Make a nondirective comment about what the children are doing such as, "It looks like you are arranging flowers."
d. Observe carefully to see what happens next.
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In what way can teachers use assessment data to successfully fulfill their responsibilities?
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Parents have become less critical to the education process than they used to be.
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Under what conditions will the highest quality of play occur?
a. Children need at least 10 minutes to play at the end of the day or before lunch.
b. Children can play when the teacher is busy writing plans or grading seatwork.
c. The best play is when children figure out what they want to do and then bring materials from home to use.
d. Children play best when the feel secure and comfortable and have the time and materials to use.
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In order to obtain thebest response from a child in an assessment situation, what factors need to be considered?
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We can expect the same mix of children in early childhood classrooms today as has been true for the past two decades.
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Which of the following statements is true?
a. Play is a significant factor in children's intellectual development.
b. Young children's block play predicts achievement in mathematics at the 7th grade.
c. Creative efforts require the generation of alternatives and a selection among alternatives.
d. All of the above are true
e. a, b, and c are not true
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You ask a child preparing his portfolio, "Tell me why you selected that piece." He answers, "I picked it because it was good." Your response to this is:
a. To teach the child additional self-reflection skills.
b. To accept the child's response without further comment.
c. To tell the child that his answer is not well thought out and ask for another response.
d. To encourage the child to also tell what is wrong with the piece.
e. a and d
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Project-Based Learning differs from the Problem-Based Learning teaching model in that:
a. it seeks to promote student engagement in the learning process.
b. it structures student learning around a meaningful topic.
c. it invites student input on the direction of the learning process.
d. it always centers on a project or task for students to accomplish.
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Which of the following questions best initiates a Problem-Based Learning lesson plan?
a. What are characteristics of healthy fats?
b. How much would it cost to fly our class to Egypt to study the pyramids?
c. What are the attributes of a habitat?
d. How does air temperature affect air pressure?
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The Problem-Based Learning model was initiated by:
a. an educator seeking to expand students' understanding of concepts.
b. a lawyer/philosopher who challenged traditional deductive approaches to learning.
c. faculty preparing doctors to apply professional skills and knowledge in real-world settings.
d. a cognitive psychologist studying how humans think and learn.
Q:
The Problem-Based Learning model has roots in which professional field?
a. Medicine
b. Law
c. Education
d. Engineering
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The Problem-Based Learning model:
a. is a teacher-directed model in which the teacher introduces new content in a directive or prescriptive way.
b. focuses on helping students acquire new knowledge and situate new concepts and their characteristics into existing conceptual frameworks.
c. creates opportunity for students to hone problem-solving skills for practical purposes.
d. is a teacher-guided model through which students develop an understanding of a concept by examining examples and nonexamples.
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How might technology be used in the planning stage to support an Inquiry model lesson.
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When should the Inquiry model be applied? Include a discussion of why the Inquiry model particularly is effective in teaching the procedural knowledge of problem solving.
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Why is it necessary for multiple Inquiry models to exist? Include a discussion of what influences different community approaches to solving problems, and provide an example of one community's approach.
Q:
Describe the history origins of the Inquiry model, including examples of more recent inquiry models.
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What is the Inquiry model, and what are primary outcomes for students engaging with this model?
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By using Survey Monkey, an online survey tool, teachers can:
a. conduct a simple pre-assessment before implementing an Inquiry model lesson.
b. glean information about students' existing understanding of a concept.
c. consider whom students might work best with in a small group.
d. All of the above.
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In the data gathering step of the Inquiry model, the teacher should:
a. require students to attempt the task without any modeling.
b. model the learning task to help students gradually learn.
c. anticipate students to reach conclusions to the questions quickly.
d. not provide too much structure to hinder the learning process.