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Q:
How can a play frame be established?
a. Nonverbally, by walking into a pretend center.
b. By invitation, "Let's play"
c. By an adult announcing which child will portray each role.
d. Nonverbally, by one child controlling the materials.
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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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Regular observation and assessment of children is an important factor in helping teachers make intentional decisions about teaching.
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Alana, Judith, and Salinda were pretending to operate a post office with other children being the customers. What would you expect Judith and Salinda to do when Alana "drove" her truck into the counter area?
a. Stop playing.
b. Ask if she wanted some stamps.
c. Tell her that the mail was by the back door and ready for transport.
d. Call the adult for assistance.
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Parents rarely blame the schools for lack of children's success.
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Name 5 different types of early childhood programs.
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The 3-year-olds in Mrs. Mezga's class at Missouri Central School are asked to create an Eskimo village out of cardboard boxes and other art materials. Based on what you have read about construction, select the answer that best describes the appropriateness of this activity.a. It is appropriate because the children are asked to make something.b. It is inappropriate because the children have no conceptual base from which to develop their construction.c. It is appropriate because the children are getting a chance to work together on a tangible product.d. It is appropriate because the activity is relevant to the children's lives.
Q:
Professional teachers and administrators do not tend to blame family members for the behavior of children in school.
Q:
Identify 5 characteristics of an early childhood professional.
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In the block area, Ms. Halliwell noticed that Su Min was making another enclosure to put the animals in. As she knelt beside her, she asked Su Min to tell her about her structure. "House," Su Min replied. Ms. Halliwell said, "It is a good thing you are building a house, as it might rain today. Will the people in your house get wet?" What roles or strategies did Ms. Halliwell use?
a. Directing
b. Scaffolding
c. Monitoring for safety
d. Analyzing the task
Q:
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:
Name 3 drawbacks to children enrolled in poor quality early childhood programs.
Q:
The following day, Ms. Kruger laid bedrolls in the tent and set up a hibachi (small grill) and some cooking tools before the children came in. What role is she playing?
a. Observer
b. Mediator
c. Planner
d. Collaborator
Q:
Generally, low income parents do not have much information that is useful for teachers to know.
Q:
Name 3 benefits to children enrolled in high quality early childhood programs.
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Once the children got underway, Ms. Kruger indicated that she thought she should make a phone call near the ranger's office and then get back to work. She left the campsite and continued to check on the play periodically during the day. What role is she playing?
a. Observer
b. Mediator
c. Responder
d. Collaborator
Q:
Collaborating with the community is one aspect of family engagement.
Q:
Name three characteristics of high quality early childhood programs.
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Ms. Kruger quietly walked up to the "camp fire" outside the tent where two children were standing around picking up materials and putting them down one Monday morning. She asked if she could play, too, and James nodded yes. "This is a very fine campsite. I am getting hungry," Ms. Kruger said as she began to kneel by the "fire" with a tiny stick in her hand. What role is she playing?
a. Observer
b. Collaborator
c. Planner
d. Model
Q:
A parent must participate in the classroom regularly in order to be really involved.
Q:
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. It is often of lower quality than the learning children experience in school.
Q:
Dimitri crawled around, growling to himself, sometimes approaching other children. Nichol told him that he should just go home. Dimitri crawled over to the large blocks where he arranged them as a three-sided enclosure with boards for a roof. Then he growled that he was going into his own lion den. What type of a construction project was this?
a. One from natural encounters.
b. One stemming from mutual interests of teachers and children.
c. One stemming from teacher concerns.
d. One stemming from thematic concerns.
Q:
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:
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.
Q:
Nicholas first examined the magnets and then arranged them carefully, talking to himself. What kind of play is this most likely to be?
a. Construction with natural materials
b. Role play
c. Pretend with objects
d. Pretend time and place
Q:
When family members seem to be unresponsive, the teacher would be wise not to continue to offer suggestions for home-based participation.
Q:
Which of these would be the best indicator of a high quality program for children?
a. The curriculum supports whole child learning.
b. There are 12 children in the class.
c. The teacher has experience in the elementary grades.
d. The program director likes children.
Q:
A box covered with foil stood in the corner near some silver covered capes and foil covered smaller boxes with rectangular space cut out of them which allowed the children who wore them to see. Four children donned their "space suits" and entered their "space ship" and prepared for the countdown. Mr. Redker was pleased with the way this unit was developing. What is the least likely type of play?
a. Role play
b. Theme-related play
c. Write and play
d. Socio-dramatic play
Q:
Describe the benefits of observational assessment.
Q:
Which of these is a distinguishing characteristic of an early childhood professional?
a. Working with young children.
b. Being paid a higher salary than that the dollars paid to non-professionals.
c. A college degree.
d. Specialized training in early childhood.
Q:
Violent play rarely emerges from the carefully planned play opportunities provided by teachers as a part of the curriculum.
Q:
What is an ecomap?
Q:
Which of the following would be considered an early childhood education program?
a. Fourth grade class
b. Neonatal unit in a hospital
c. Second grade class
d. Boy Scouts
Q:
A specific object or event may be successfully represented by many different kinds of materials.
Q:
Explain the difference between the "halo" effect and the leniency factor as described in your text.
Q:
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.
Q:
Teachers in the primary grades are usually more comfortable with construction activities than with pretend play activities in the classroom.
Q:
In what way can teachers use assessment data to successfully fulfill their responsibilities?
Q:
"The professional is never a "finished" product." Select the most appropriate interpretation of
this 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:
Mr. Hobek's second grade is weaving potholders for a gift using a metal frame and looped stretch fabric purchased for this purpose. This is an appropriate construction activity.
Q:
In order to obtain thebest response from a child in an assessment situation, what factors need to be considered?
Q:
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.
Q:
Adults generally understand what the construction is with no other cues than can be had by looking at it.
Q:
Which of the following is true?
a. In order to preserve confidentiality, assessment data should never be shared with other teachers.
b. Assessment data should be limited to those developmental domains that fall in the academic realm.
c. Assessment data about a child's limitations can be shared with others if it will minimize learning difficulties.
d. As good as it is, authentic assessment is not useful for identifying children who need special services.
Q:
The population of the United States is changing. Which of the following conditions is identified in your textbook as one of the conditions created by these circumstances?
a. Parents are less interested in their children's education than was true in the past.
b. The number of families with young children who are living in poverty is growing.
c. The number of children who speak a language other than English at home was growing, but is now leveling off.
d. The number of children living in single parent families has stabilized.
Q:
Object exploration is typical of the early preschool children, but is unnecessary to 5-8-year olds.
Q:
Before selecting an assessment tool, you should:
a. Determine the purpose of the assessment
b. Use the one that will yield the best results for all children.
c. Always choose one that is unobtrusive
d. Never choose one that will result in a child doing poorly.
Q:
An early childhood professional is someone who works with children ages:
a. Preschool to third grade
b. Four to eight
c. Birth to eight
d. Birth to five
Q:
Occupational role assumption appears at about two and a half in the early childhood period and becomes more elaborate over time.
Q:
Assessment should:
a. Contain a halo effect.
b. Be limited to formal measures.
c. Be administered in a whole-group setting.
d. Be formative and summative
Q:
Quality is determined primarily by the curriculum that has been adopted by the early childhood programs in which they are enrolled.
Q:
Everyone in the proximity of a pretend play scenario is in the play frame.
Q:
To be most useful, assessment in an elementary school should:
a. Be carried out by the elementary curriculum director.
b. Be carried out by the classroom teacher.
c. Be diagnostic in nature and standardized.
d. Avoid an evaluative component.
Q:
Most American families cite quality as an important factor in selecting an early childhood program for their child.
Q:
Play is governed by internal rules.
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Following completion of the kindergarten year:
a. Assessment data should be shredded so that objectivity is not hampered.
b. Assessment data should be shared with the grade 1 teacher.
c. All assessment data should be sent home to parents.
d. All assessment data should be maintained by the kindergarten teacher for future reference.
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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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The opposite of play is seriousness.
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Which of the following is a true statement?
a. You must not place a student in a special setting on the basis of one test.
b. All assessment in an early childhood classroom should be standardized.
c. Teacher constructed tools usually lack validity.
d. Parents should have access to the scores of all children in a classroom for comparative purposes.
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According to the U.S. Census, the majority of young children live in two parent families.
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Effective teachers select one approach to play in the classroom and stick with it consistently.
Q:
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.
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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.
Q:
Identify 6 ways in which people are diverse.
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Documentation boards:
a. Contain 3-dimensional artifacts produced by children.
b. Should contain a description of the goals and objectives of the project depicted.
c. Are an excellent technological source of information for parents.
d. Should contain only teacher narratives.
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The NAEYC Code of Ethical Conduct defines the standards early childhood programs need to meet to be considered high quality.
Q:
What are the 3Rs of environmental responsibility?
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Which of the following is a true statement?
a. If a standardized test is valid and reliable, it can be used to place children in special settings.
b. The only problem with ongoing observational assessment is that it tends to be intrusive.
c. Observation of children can be seriously flawed if interpretation of the evaluator includes a leniency factor.
d. Time sampling is not helpful for instructional planning
Q:
The National Association for the Education of Young Children defines early childhood as the preschool years.
Q:
Identify 3 strategies for helping children develop positive attitudes toward diversity
Q:
In standardized testing, what does the termvalidity mean?
a. Fifty percent of children will be above the mean and fifty percent will be below the mean.
b. The test measures what it is supposed to.
c. The child's score will be the same if the test is re-administered.
d. The test is timed.
Q:
There is more than one path to becoming an early childhood professional.
Q:
List 8 social skills young children need to develop in early childhood.
Q:
In order to obtain good reliability in scoring comprehension when taking an oral reading sample, which of the following would be appropriate?
a. Structure several questions and ask the same questions of each child tested.
b. Structure individual, different questions for each child.
c. Ask closed-ended questions to cut down on ambiguity.
d. Ask another teacher to listen in.
Q:
Parents have become less critical to the education process than they used to be.
Q:
Identify the steps associated with prosocial behavior.
Q:
In scoring an oral reading tape for the child's reading accuracy, which is the correct procedure?
a. Subtract the number of correct words read from the total. Divide the total number of words read.
b. Multiply the total number of words read by the number of uncorrected mistakes.
c. Subtract the number of uncorrected mistakes from the total. Divide by the total number of mistakes.
d. Subtract the number of uncorrected mistakes from the total. Divide by the total number of words read.
Q:
We can expect the same mix of children in early childhood classrooms today as has been characteristic of the past two decades.
Q:
Ms. Jones wants to promote environmental awareness in her classroom. Which of the following activities might you see during the day that would address this goal?
a. Group time on "Stop, Drop and Roll."
b. Children learning scripts such as, "It's my turn next."
c. Children make posters about littering
d. A class meeting in which children practice listening to and acknowledging others' rights, opinions and feelings.
Q:
Which of the following portfolios is passed from teacher to teacher at the end of the year?
a. Individual portfolio
b. Institutional portfolio
c. Teacher portfolio
d. Showcase portfolio