Reliable practices happening regularly
throughout the day that provide the child
with a sense of predictability and order;
they must be flexibly implemented, and
occasionally deviated from, in order to
sustain the child's full engagement in the
program.
What is Routines
100
Changes from one activity to the next.
What are transitions
100
Active, vigorous play that involves
sustained movement by the lower and
upper body muscle groups.
Typically is high-energy, a natural form of
aerobic activity in young children.
What is Big Body Play
100
Refers to young children in the process of
building linguistic skills in two languages
simultaneously.
What is Emergent bilingual learners
100
According to a 2010 US Census Bureau report, an increasing number of families in the United States speak a language other than English in the home—how many families exactly?
What is 19.7% (Shin & Kominski, 2010)
200
Events that occur in the process of
moving children from one activity to
another in the daily program, which the
teacher may or may not have planned.
What is Transitions
200
Transition methods should not violate the principle of unconditional positive regard—“Millie, you've been quiet; you can line up first today.” This practice results in hurt feelings among the others who have been quiet and weren't selected. These types of transitions, such as “Everyone whose first name begins with a C or K may quietly line up,” are more appropriate. This type of criteria lessen the appearance of favoritism in the lineup procedure and get the job done efficiently.
What are Chance-based transitions
200
A classroom in which a variety of activities
and grouping arrangements occur, and
where the teacher is a manager of the
daily program as well as a lead teacher.
What is Multidimensional classroom
200
Traditionally, many educators have regarded children who speak a home-language other than English as having this ( Genishi & Dyson, 2009).
What is a disability
200
This might include a bulletin board, checkout library, pamphlets and flyers, a collection of newsletters, and perhaps a place where the family member can sit down.
What is The Parent Corner
300
An activity that uses time productively
while waiting.
What is Buffer activity
300
A visual used to help children understand
routine time blocks in the daily schedule.
What is Day chart
300
The inability to understand time concepts
in early childhood due to developmental
factors relating to limitations in cognitive
processing.
What is Time confusion
300
Bilingual children develop an earlier understanding of taxonomic relationships than their monolingual peers (e.g., car and bus are vehicles).
Bilingual adults are better than monolingual adults at learning new words.
What types of advantages are these?
What is Linguistic Advantages
300
In addition to helping with parties and field trips, family members who share knowledge or skills with a class are important. These family members are called what?
What are Special Events Volunteers
400
A feeling of positive anticipation or motivation in children created by the teacher, often
in a large-group setting toward a follow-up activity often done individually or in small groups.
What is anticipatory set
400
A particular kind of day chart that uses a
“one-handed clock” to track routine time
blocks in the daily schedule.
What is Day clock
400
The educational practice of including
learners of diverse abilities and physical
and behavioral characteristics in the
classroom. Related terms are inclusiveness
and inclusivity.
What is Inclusion
400
The opposite of “activity,” the term refers
to both experiences that cause children
to become passive learners and the
passive state of mind caused by these
experiences. Boredom, restlessness,
frustration, and mistaken behavior are
common reactions to passivity.
What is Passivity
400
According to Dan Gartrell, Classroom Volunteers Often Include these people:
What is Foster Parents, Grandparents, College Interns, Students from Older Grades, and Family Members.
500
An argument for having large group times is this...
What is young children need to get used to sitting and listening to succeed at school. However, the physiology of children prevents them from sitting comfortably for long periods. To the comment that they must learn to sit and listen, the response is that young children are not developmentally ready
500
An alternative that teachers can use to encourage children to think about time and weather concepts in ways that have personal meaning for them.
What is Ask four or five questions such as: Who can remember something you saw on the way to school this morning?
Was it hot or cold outside this morning? How could you tell?
500
During discussions, the ability to respond
in an encouraging fashion to unexpected
comments so as to assist each child to
feel part of the group.
What is Discussing inclusively
500
Refers to an individual or group that has a
cultural background and a spoken
language different from the mainstream.
Teachers who respect the differing
culture and language of a child; even
while they teach about mainstream
culture and language, they teach
What is Culturally linguistically different (CLD)
500
The Most Important Reason for Involving Family Members in the classroom is this according to Dan Gartrell
What is: It Encourages them to become More Active in Their Children's Education.