Just the Facts Please
Blocks and accessories should be organized by________.
What is type?
ITERS-3 classrooms should have 2 of these colorful, 3-D hanging objects displayed.
What are mobiles?
What is 20?
Staff talk about children's actions, intentions, or feelings to other children, facilitate children's attempts to interact with others children, show gentle touch, and model positive social interactions in this indicator.
What are peer interactions?
This term means that children can see, reach, and use toys, materials, furnishings, and/or equipment.
What is Accessible?
Children 24 months and older should have access to how many drawing materials?
What is 1?
Staff should read at least two of these individually or in small group, pointing out pictures, and following words with their fingers. There should be 20 or more of these in the classroom
What is book?
Hand wipes can be used for infants that cannot _______.
What is hold their head up?
In this indicator, staff are understanding, soothing, playful, receptive to children's attempts to initiate interactions, and sensitive to children's nonverbal cues.
What is staff-child interactions?
Materials should be accessible ___________ the observation.
What is throughout?
There should be a ______ of toys used during sand and water play.
What is variety?
Staff should provide a calm, safe environment, use proper names of children and nouns, use parallel talk and narration, avoid the use of pronouns, use descriptive words, repeat words new words children are learning, compare and contrast items, and talk about past/future to build area of children's learning.
What is language development?
Wait times with nothing engaging to do never exceed ________ minutes.
What is three?
A teacher cuts out some panda bears, polar bears, giraffes, and whales and tapes them to some of the wooden blocks. Credit could be given for the following two items within the subscales.
What is science/nature and blocks?
If children play outside for more than 60 minutes during an observation, you will not receive this in at a five level in fine motor, art, music, blocks, dramatic play, nature/science, Math/number, or promoting acceptance of diversity indicators.
What is throughout the observation?
Example of unsafe art materials?
What is broken crayons, googly eyes, cotton balls, glitter, etc.
Staff should sing to children individually or small group and provide 10 instruments for this item in the scale.
What is music?
The following are examples of _________?
sharing is not forced, although it may be discussed
wait times are short
children are never forced to participate in activities they are not interested in
What is developmentally appropriate practice?
This should happen while outside, too.
What staff-child interactions/conversations?
The ITERS-3 scale has been created from from the _______ perspective.
What is the child's perspective?
In nature/science there should be one ______ thing that children can easily experience. If you choose the green growing variety and one is hanging in the classroom, you will also receive credit for a mobile as well (which you must have two of).
What is a living thing.
There are five types of diversity the scale observes.
What are race, age, non-traditional gender roles, culture, and abilities?
Children are closely supervised during these routines.
What are eating, toileting, diapering, and handwashing?
Teachers should do this throughout the observation, in every center, with a variety of materials.
What are powerful interactions?