A federally funded preschool program primarily for lower income students that is comprehensive and focuses on the whole child.
What is Head Start?
100
This is the age range for infant/toddlers
What is birth to 36 months?
100
This term means that all preschool students have access to a preschool in their area.
What is universal preschool?
100
The emphasis in kindergarten curriculum is now based mostly on these two subjects
What is reading (literacy) and math?
100
This theorist was responsible for developing the pyramid which represents how the needs of students could help or detract from their success in learning.
What is Abraham Maslow?
200
This EC program provides sensory materials to invite self-directed learning through a set curriculum.
What is Montessori method?
200
This is Erikson's stage of Psychosocial Development that infants/toddlers are in.
What is Basic trust vs. Mistrust?
200
Preschool students benefit from an early education in these three ways......
What is higher earnings later in life, committing fewer crimes, increased chance of attending college, reduction in child abuse and neglect, and significantly higher reading and math skills?
200
These are two ways that kindergartens have changed in the last 20 years.
What is more funding, more academically focused, longer school days, exploding enrollment, more challenging programs, more testing and accountability?
200
His theory of progressivism emphasized children and their interests rather than subject matter; children are a part of a community of learners.
What is John Dewey?
300
A EC program in which the curriculum is not planned in advance and "plan-do-review" is the teaching-learning cycle.
What is High/Scope?
300
This is the primary social behavior in infants.
What is crying?
300
This is one reason preschools have become so popular lately
What is both parents in the workforce, equal opportunities for all students to succeed, intervention programs work best early?
300
The founding father of the kindergarten
What is Friedrich Froebel?
300
The ideas of this theorist form the basis of constructivism, which is based on hands-on activities. He also was responsible for the stages of cognitive development, such as sensorimotor, preoperational, etc.
What is Jean Piaget?
400
This approach to EC is based on John Dewey's work, which includes constructivist ideas and practices. Focuses on the children's interests and searches for answers to children's questions.
What is the Project Approach?
400
This is the type of attachment present in toddlers who seek closeness, but resist consoling.
What is resistant attachment?
400
This is the ability to control emotions and behaviors, to delay gratification, and to build positive social relations with each other.
What is self-regulation?
400
This disorder can be found in kindergarten students who have difficulties putting their thoughts into words to tell what they are thinking or doing.
What is expressive language disorder?
400
This theorist's ideas formed the basis of psychosocial development in stages such as trust vs. mistrust, autonomy vs. shame and doubt, initiative vs. guilt, and industry vs. inferiority.
What is Erik Erikson?
500
Three different types of child care situations
What is family child care, center-based care, employee-sponsored care, intergenerational care, proprietary care, or before- and after-school care?
500
The type of speech in infants/toddlers in which the child produces one word that means a whole thought. "Doll" that means "I want my doll."
What is holographic speech?
500
This is Erikson's stage that preschoolers are in.
What is Initiative vs. Guilt?
500
These are two of the many signs of a possible learning disability
What is difficulty in following simple directions, understanding questions, staying on task, drawing, self-help activities?
500
This theorist's ideas include the zone of proximal development and focus on the social aspect of children's development.