Children's development
Head Start/Project Approach
Assessment
Montessori/
High Scope
Reggio/Waldorf
100
Name at least 3 risk factors that can influence a child's development
What is poverty, living in a single-parent household, being born to a teen mom, low education level of parents, non-employed parents, living with a disability, living in a family with 4 or more children, and family moves frequently?
100
The country's largest provider of education and medical services to disadvantaged children and families with limited incomes
What is Head Start?
100
Short focused notes about a moment in a child's day
What is an anecdotal record?
100
Name at least 2 of the 3 key roles of the Montessori teacher.
What is prepare the environment, present materials to students, and observe children at work?
100
Define the term "atelier" in the Reggio Emilia Approach
What is the art studio space?
200
Three ethnic groups of children who are at a greater risk for poverty.
What is African American, Native American, and Hispanic?
200
List the 4 Pillars of Head Start.
What are health and wellness, learning experiences, family involvement, and community partnerships?
200
carefully designed displays that chronicle the progress of children's projects
What is a documentation panel?
200
List the 5 categories of Montessori curriculum.
What is practical life activities, sensorial, cultural, language, and mathematics?
200
Name at least 2 of the 3 primary roles of the teacher in the Reggio Emilia Approach.
What is observe and listen to children, provoke the children's thinking, and document their processes by collecting work and dialogue of children?
300
List at least 3 goals of an early intervention program.
What is increased developmental outcomes, focus on academic and social achievement, meaningful integration of families into the early ed program, and strengthen the status of the family within the community?
300
Research has shown that Head Start has allowed children to grow in these 3 areas.
What are gains in language, literacy, and social skills?
300
Teachers record and evaluate children's responses on authentic tests
What is a performance-based assessment?
300
Maria Montessori believed that children through __________ ________________ when learning in specific domains is optimal.
What are sensitive periods?
300
Ongoing development of knowledge and skills related to reading and writing that develop over time through informal activities.
What is emergent literacy?
400
List at least 2 ways that teachers can support linguistic diversity in the classroom.
Answers may include sending home communication in students' home language, labeling the classroom, providing time for dual language learners to process, use visual cues, adjust verbal interactions for children learning English, etc.
400
The most important thing to consider when selecting a topic for a class project?
What is the opportunity for first-hand explorations by the children?
400
Two types of assessments that should be addressed in your lesson plans
What is formative and summative?
400
The High/Scope method follows this 3 phase cycle.
What is plan-do-review?
400
Name one criticism of the Waldorf philosophy.
What are lack of technology and an emphasis on spirituality?
500
List some aspects of a successful early childhood program
What are formal training and education of early childhood teachers: programs based on developmental theories; involves families; respects cultural and linguistic diversity?
500
The four learning goals in the Project Approach
What are knowledge, skills, dispositions, and feelings?
500
These describe key concepts that all children birth through age 5 in the state of Ohio should know/perform. Every lesson objective and assessment should be written based upon these.
What are Ohio's Early Learning Standards?
500
Based on several years of research and following the lives of former preschool children, The High/Scope Perry Project was found to have these positive effects through adulthood. (Name at leat 3 specific effects.)
What is better standardized test scores, more college graduates, lower crime rates, higher paying jobs, steady income, owned homes and cars, stable family lives (married and raising their own children), and less dependence on government programs?
500
The practice of having the same teacher move through grades with the same class for 2 years or more.
What is looping?
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