DEVELOPMENTALLY APPROPRIATE PRACTICE
PLAY
CURRICULUM
PRESCHOOL ENVIRONMENT
PRIMARY AGE ENVIRONMENTS
100
DAP is a curriculum that includes a rigid set of standards that dictate practice. True or False?
What is False?
100
Play is an intrinsically motivated activity which emphasizes the process rather than the product. True or False?
What is true.
100
Curriculum are the methods and content to be taught. True or false?
What is true?
100
Private areas should not be created in the preschool environment because they are unsafe for children.
What is False.
100
The environment in a primary age classroom should be print-rich. True or False?
What is TRUE?
200
DAP refers to applying __________ ___________ ___________ in making thougtful and appropriate decisions about early childhood program practices.
What is child development knowledge?
200
Piaget introduced three categories of play. 1. Functional 2. Symbolic 3. Name the third?
What is games with rules?
200
Define integrated curriculum?
What is the various subject matter disciplines in common related activities or projects, rather than as separate branches of knowledge?
200
The ability to control one's actions is __________.
What is self-control
200
What are two ways to create appropriate schedules for this age group?
What minimize interruptions and schedule necessary breaks?
300
Name the three domains of development?
What is physical, cognitive, and social/emotional?
300
Name one of the 10 ways play is the most appropriate curriculum for young children according to your text?
Play: 1. provides for all areas of development 2. emphasizes learning as an active/interactive process 3. presents highly motivated opportunities for learning 4. allows for differences 5. allows for practice and repetition of newly acquired skills, competencies, and ideas 6. promotes self-regulation 7. contributes to brain development 8. promotes acquisition of foundational skills 9. lays the cornerstone for social/moral develoment 10. supports emotional development
300
Name two benefits of an integrated curriculum?
What is 1. provides coherence for children's experiences and permits optimum construction of meaning. 2. it allows children to understand how to apply the knowledge in broadly relevant ways. 3. allows children to learn through activities in large time blocks. 4. the time and opportunity for children to engage in the repeated activities needed for real learning and mastery. 5. internal motivation to learn is a result of involvement over time in projects and activities of interest.
300
What are three of the considerations in planning a preschool environment for self-control?
What is Plan physical environments that prevent problems caused by boredom, frustration, overcrowding, and fatigue Plan physical environments that clearly convey positive expectations for children Use posters and other visual cues to remind children of appropriate behavior Provide private spaces for withdrawl Use materials that demonstrate respect for individual rights and differences Offer materials for vigorous use as outlets for expressing emotion Model opportunities for children to meet for problem solving
300
Two of the elements that promote literacy in the primary age classroom are _____________ and _______________.
What is create a print rich environment and provide for communication and conversation.
400
What are two of the five interrelated dimensions of Early Childhood Practice?
What is creating a caring community of learners, teaching to enhance development and learning, constructing appropriate curriculum, assessing children's learning and development, and establishing reciprocal relationships with families?
400
This is Vygotsky's notion of the distance between the child's actual developmental level of independent problem solving and the potential develomentally level of problem solving with adult guidance or by working with more capable peers.
What is zone of proximal development?
400
Define emergent curriculum?
What is learning activities that develop from following the interests and interactions of the classroom participants.
400
What are three reasons why you allow opportunities for choice in a preschool classroom?
Children need to develop a sense of initiative Children gain a sense of accomplishment when they are able to make choices Children can "read" choices if the centers are labeled for them Children can share the power with adults
400
Name Erikson's stage for this age group?
What is Industry vs. Inferiority?
500
Name the 3 kinds of information and knowledge that DAP is based on?
What is 1. What is known about child development and learning. 2. What is known about each child as an individual. 3. What is know about the social and cultural contexts in which children live.
500
Name Parten's stages of play?
What is 1. Unoccupied 2. Solitary 3. Parallel 4. Associative 5. Cooperative
500
Name two sources that the text identifies for ideas for emergent curriculum.
What is 1. children's play, comments, and questions 2. adult's interests and passions 3. things, events, and people in the environment 4. developmental tasks 5. family and cultural influences 6. issues that arise in the course of living together day to day 7. serendipity 8. curriculum resource materials
500
List 3 ways that a teacher can nurture prosocial behaviors in children?
What is provide materials, provide activities, encourage assistance, reinforce prosocial behavior, model prosocial behavior, limit aggression and antisocial behavior?
500
Give three ways a teacher can support children in balancing cooperative skills with competitive attitudes.
What is 1. Provide materials, games, and time for children to organize their own games. 2. Teach children necessary skills to succeed at playing games. 3. Let children manage their games and rules without adult interference. 4. Plan cooperative games for classroom and after-school programs. 5. Take competition out of the classroom. math, science, social studies, the arts, and technology
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