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What does NAEYC stand for?
National Association for the Education of Young Children.
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The program that began as part of the government's War on Poverty in the 1960's and serves families of low economic status who would otherwise not have access to quality preschool.
What is Head Start.
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In what settling does an early childhood educator provide care and education for children, as well as administer his or her own business?
What is a family child-care home.
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What kind of a teacher's characteristics include being purposeful, thoughtful, and prepared. They have a purpose for the decisions they make and can explain that purpose to others.
What is an intentional teacher.
100
What grade are considered the primary grades in school?
What is first, second, and third grade.
200
What is the world's largest professional organization of early childhood educators.
What is the NAEYC.
200
How did the seventeenth century English philosopher John Locke describe children?
What is as blank slates.
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Typically considered the first year of formal schooling; services 5 and 6 year olds.
What is Kindergarten.
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What kind of teacher recognizes that children learn best in an environment that is respectful of the child and their need for active learning?
What is an intentional teacher.
200
Who is responsible for licensing and regulating child care providers in the United States?
What is the state government.
300
What a teacher knows about child development, what a teacher knows about the individual child, and what a teacher knows about the child's social and cultural background is used to determine what practices in the classroom?
What is DAP (developmentally appropriate practice).
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Who first proposed that education should focus on building on children's natural goodness to help them achieve their potential?
Who was Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
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Educational programs serving 3 and 4 year olds prior to their entrance to kindergarten.
What is preschool.
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Which is NOT true about EC teachers: they make decisions based on a specialized body of knowledge they continue to learn throughout their careers they are committed to providing the best care and education possible for every child they earn more money on average than workers in other professions
What is they earn more money on average than workers in other professions.
300
A group that shares a vocabulary, an identity, values and beliefs is called what?
What is culture.
400
The federal law governing provision of services for children with disabilities and special needs.
What is IDEA (individuals with Disabilities Education Act).
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Who developed the concept of the child as the "absorbent mind"- actively learning from sensory experiences?
Who was Maria Montessori.
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Care and education provided to young children during the hours that their parents are employed.
What is child care.
400
Early childhood education teachers work with children from birth, up to what age?
What is age eight.
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A way of thinking that requires diverse perspectives and several possible correct answers to be considered.
What is both/and thinking.
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The philosophy is continuously changing as research continues to inform us on the needs of children and what is appropriate when working with them.
What is DAP.
500
Who coined the term, "kindergarten", which means "children's garden"?
Who was Friedrich Froebel.
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A federally funded, national program that promotes school readiness by enhancing social and cognitive development to children ages 3, 4, and 5.
What is Head Start.
500
What three things must an an intentional teacher know?
What is how children develop and learn, how to teach them, and what to teach them.
500
A written plan that describes the goals for children's learning and development, and the learning experiences, materials, and teaching strategies that are used to help children achieve those goals.
What is the curriculum.
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