Chapter 1
This helps teach children about themselves and how to relate to others.
What are positive interactions?
This helps minimize disagreements and waiting times for children.
What is providing duplicates of toys?
This is more essential for school readiness than knowing letters and numbers.
What are social-emotional skills?
Teachers must be _______ in responding to individual needs.
What is flexible?
Involves the customary beliefs, values, and practices people learn from their families and communities.
What is culture?
The four categories of childhood development.
What are social-emotional, physical, cognitive, and languge?
These remind children of their families and help make them feel secure.
What are homelike touches?
This is one of the greatest achievements in the first 3 years of life.
What is the development of oral language?
Children look to adults as a _________.
What is a model?
This summarizes information about how best to handle daily routines for an individual child.
What is an Individual Care Plan (ICP)?
This can determine whether children are encouraged to express pride about their accomplishments.
What is culture?
These help show that everything has a place and helps children participate in cleanup.
What are labels?
This is the ability to hear the small units of sound in spoken language.
What is phonological awareness?
These allow teachers to interact with children individually, take the time needed for daily routines, observe and respond to each child, and follow the child's lead.
What are small groups?
This is essential to building partnerships with families.
What is good communication?
This involves the way children think, develop understandings about the world, and use what they learn to reason and solve problems.
What is cognitive development?
An example of a positive message portrayed in the classroom. (More than one answer possible)
You belong here; We like you; This is a place you can trust; You will be safe here; This is a comfortable place to be; You can move freely and explore on your own; We will take care of you.
Organizing information in a logical way in order to make comparisons.
What is sorting and classifying?
The ability to control one's own feelings and behavior.
What is self-regulation?
This is a time to sit down with a family, uninterrupted to talk as partners about caring for their child.
What is a parent-teacher conference?
A child's behavioral style.
What is temperament?
What is the daily schedule?
Young children _______ their surroundings by using all of their senses.
What is investigate?
An ongoing process of purposefully observing children in order to get to know each child and make decisions about how best to support his or her development and learning.
What is asssessment?
An example of a positive daily exchange. (Multiple answers possible).
What is greeting each child and family personally; sharing information about their child's accomplishments; getting parent's advice; giving support to families; being a good listener