No More Worksheets
Formal activities seen as "real learning"
What are worksheets?
Why proper pencil grasp is important?
It helps the children to efficiently write and at a decent writing speed.
It helps the children to efficiently write and at a decent writing speed.
they learn more about their emotions and how to control them.
Why is play-based learning so important to children development?
Which Theorist believed that cognitive development is genetically-based and universal across cultures?
Piaget
Refers to whether development is primarily due to biological genetic forces or to external forces.
What is nature vs nurture?
Developing the whole child- socially, emotionally, physically, intellectually in order for children to succeed and reach their full potential.
What is Holistic Development?
At what age a child will switch to a static tripod grasp or guadrupod grasp?
By 3-4 years
Free play involves a child given the freedom to play. Play-based learning is a adults directed. The teacher organizes the play for a student.
What is the difference between play-based learning and free play?
Which theorist was the first to describe development across the life span (Hint: He did so with eight stages of human development)
Erikson
What are Domains?
Helps to develop a child's concentration span which will help in the future with more formal tasks
What is "movement"?
Which fingers are used for the Pincer Grasp?
The index and thumb are used for the Pincer Grasp.
A true pincer grasp is using the tips of the pointer finger and thumb.
Six seven and eight years old especially if the group is not too large.
What age do kids start playing better with other children?
What are Piaget's four stages of intellectual development?
Sensorimotor, Preoperational, Concrete operational, Formal operational
Harmful agents that can cause fetal damage during the prenatal period.
What are Teratogens?
Painting with different size brushes, building puzzles, molding playdough, tearing, lacing and threading
What are better examples of developmentally appropriate fine motor practice?
Which grasp is considered an efficient and mature grasp?
Tripod grasp
Learning to read.
What is the most complex task that children will undertake during this development stage?
Which theorist came up with multiple intelligences (Ex: Kinesthetic or Linguistic)
Gardner
The delivery of an infant through an incision in the mother's abdomen and uterus.
What is a C-section?
When young children need symbols to represent objects and cannot think abstractly yet.
What is Piaget's Preoperational Stage?
Name any five Grasps?
Crude Palmar Grasp – 3-5 months
Palmar Grasp – 6 months old
Radical Palmar Grasp – 7 months old
Raking Grasp – 8 months old
Radial Digital Grasp – 8-10 months
Inferior Pincer & Pincer Grasp – 10 months old
Palmar Supinate Grasp – 12-15 months old
Digital Pronate Grasp – 2-3 years old
Static Tripod and/ or Quadrupod Grasp – 3-4 years old
Dynamic Tripod Grasp – 5-6 years old
For helping children cognitive and social skills development in the early grades.
Why does play-based learning remain an important instructional method?
What are the five essential needs in Maslow's Hierarchy of needs pyramid?
Physiological, Safety-Security, Social, Self-Esteem, and Self Actualization
The process of eliminating unused neurons and neural connections to strengthen those that the child is actively using.
What is Pruning?