Effective Teaching
Assessment
Ethics
Play
Theorists
100
Effective teaching is an art that requires vision, creativity, and what?
What is decision making.
100
The process of gathering information about children's learning and using it to provide the right kind and amount of support.
What is formative assessment.
100
The document that serves as a personal acknowledgement of the values and moral obligations one will embrace in the early childhood profession.
What is NAEYC's code of ethical conduct.
100
An activity that involves a group of four to six children with the same experiences, focus, and materials.
What is a small group.
100
The process of modifying a behavior through positive or negative reinforcement.
What is Operant Conditioning.
200
Effective teaching uses scientific and classroom research to develop a curriculum that is age and ______ appropriate.
What is culturally.
200
Using standardized test scores to make decisions about individual children, teachers, or schools that have potential long-term consequences.
What are high-stakes tests.
200
Aiding a cause that you believe in.
What is advocacy.
200
A piece of equipment or product that is used to increase, maintain, or improve the functional capabilities of individuals with disabilities.
What is assistive technology.
200
Plays an important role in the socialization process, as children learn how to behave and respond to others by observing how their parents and other caregivers interact with each other and with other people.
What is Observational Learning.
300
Supporting children's ability to accomplish learning tasks that they could not otherwise accomplish independently.
What is scaffolding.
300
Tests that must weight group composition in terms of gender, ethnicity, age, socioeconomic, and other factors in order to be valid.
What are norm-referenced tests.
300
The obligations that every teacher agrees to uphold with honesty, integrity, and respect.
What are ethical responsibilities.
300
What kind of activities could you do in small groups of children? Think about materials you've seen in class or in child care settings.
What is reading a story, play dough, lacing beads, building blocks, etc.
300
Identifies a hierarchy of needs that showed what was needed for a healthy personal development.
What is Self-Actualization Theory.
400
Activities that engage children in thinking and reflecting about their own learning.
What are metacognitive activities.
400
What is the most important assessment tool and early education teacher can develop and use?
What are keen observational skills.
400
What are some ways that you can advocate on behalf of children and the early childhood profession?
What is join an advocacy group (NAEYC) and stay informed about policy issues, provide parents information to help them advocate for their children, vote in every election, etc. (page 523, figure 16.1)
400
What role should the teacher play while the children are playing?
What is the onlooker role (teachers act as the audience for children's play), the stage manager role (teacher set the stage for children's play by providing the props and theme and being available to respond to children's request), the co-player role (teachers actually join in and take an active role in children's play), and the play leader (teachers participate in children's play; includes making deliberative attempts to enrich and expend the play episode).
400
The stage in which you learn through your senses and physical movement.
What is Sensorimotor Stage of Development.
500
What a teacher says or does that engages children and contributes to their learning and development.
What is pedagogy.
500
Who is the primary assessor for classroom assessments?
Who is the teacher.
500
What are some actions listed in the NAEYC Statement of Commitment?
What is never harm children, respect and support families in their task of nurturing children, stay informed of and maintain high standards of professional conduct, etc. (page 526, figure 16.2)
500
Requires children to make intentional choices and encourages them to identify their goals, consider the options for achieving them, make predictions, and anticipate consequences.
What is planning.
500
Who constructed the theory of the Zone of Proximal Development?
Who was Lev Vygotsky.
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