1. Early childhood education serves children within this age range:
What is birth through age 8
100
Children generally perceived from the Middle Ages through the seventeenth century in Western Europe as this.
What are miniature adults
100
Teaching that is attuned to children’s ages, experiences, abilities, and interests, and that helps them attain challenging and achievable goals.
What is Developmentally Appropriate Practice
100
Learning theory derived from the work of Piaget which assumes that children actively build their knowledge from first hand experiences in stimulating environments
What is Constructivism
100
Set of ideas that describes the many ways persons may demonstrate intelligence and competency.
What is Gardner's Multiple Intelligences
200
The federally funded national program that provides comprehensive services to enhance the social and cognitive development of 3-, 4-, and 5-year-old children from economically disadvantaged families.
What is Head Start
200
This person wrote the first illustrated children’s textbook, Orbis Pictus, which translated means “the world in pictures”.
Who is Comenius?
200
Being purposeful, thoughtful, and prepared are characteristics of the __________ teacher.
What is INTENTIONAL
200
Vygotsky’s theory that children learn from social interaction
What is Sociocultural Theory
200
Two intelligences that Gardner identifies as the main focus of typical school activities.
What is Logical/mathematical and linguistic
300
A group that shares a vocabulary, an identity, values, and beliefs is called:
What is Culture
300
Inventor whose occupations were planned experiences designed to train children's eye-hand coordination and mental activity and gifts were concrete materials developed by the "father of kindergarten."
Who is Friedrich Froebel
300
The process by which an early childhood educator observes and documents children’s work and how they do it.
What is Assessment
300
The process of mentally using one thing to stand for something else.
What is symbolic representation
300
Name of the individualized service plan developed by school districts to meet the needs of children who qualify for special education services.
What is IEP Individualized Education Plan
400
The document that articulates the shared values of early childhood professionals.
What is NAEYC code of conduct
400
Developed the concept of the child as the “absorbent mind”—actively learning from sensory experiences.
Who is Maria Montessori
400
age-related human characteristics that allow teachers to make general predictions within an age range about what materials, interactions, and experiences will be safe, interesting challenging, and within reach for children.
What is age appropriate
400
Distance between developmental level of an individual and level of potential with help of adults.
What is Zone of Proximal Development
400
the ability to work and communicate effectively, both verbally and nonverbally, with members of diverse groups.
What is cultural competence
500
Scholars agree that the gap in school achievement between African American and Hispanic children, compared with white children, is a result of:
What is DIFFERENCES or LOW socio-economic status
500
Educational reformer who believed education should produce citizen decision makers who could take the initiative and use judgment.
Who is John Dewey
500
a two-way relationship in which information and power are shared evenly.
What is reciprocal relationship
500
Principles of early childhood education practice developed in schools in Italy; image of the child rich in potential as a citizen with rights.
What is Reggio Emilia approach
500
Someone who is learning more than one language at a time.