Early Childhood Educator
Child Development
Planning & Standards
Cognitive Development
Social Emotional Development
100

This is an important vehicle for developing self-regulation as well as promoting language, cognition, and social competence.

What is play?

100

This person provides opportunities that are individually and culturally appropriate.

Who is the adult?

100

This includes goals, standards and is research-based.

What is curriculum?

100

This pertains to the mind and how it works.

What is cognitive?

100

This area centers on the development of social, emotional, personality characteristics, and self-concept.

What is Affective Development?

200

These settings include early childhood education centers, family in-home programs, head-start programs, or community education programs.

What are early childhood education settings?

200

These ideas provide an explanation, prediction, or a description of what does or will happen as children group and learn.

What are child development theories?

200

This includes observation, note-taking, and assessments.

What is the planning cycle?

200

This is a sequence that involves a stimulus and then some sort of activity in the mind followed by a response.

What is cognitive functioning?

200

This includes the ability to form and sustain positive relationships and experience, manage, and express emotions.

What is a healthy social-emotional development?

300

This approach to teaching is based on how children develop and learn.

What is Developmentally Appropriate Practice (DAP)?

300

These attribute development changes to interaction between growth and learning.

What are developmental theories?

300

These were created using multiple resources and are grounded in the notion that early experiences are directly related to later success in school.

What are the Florida Birth to Five Standards?

300

This person first proposed that children actually think differently than adults.

Who is Jean Piaget?

300

This includes consistent, on-going instruction, examples, models, books, and is embedded in real-time.

What is social skill instruction?

400

These domains include development and learning and are closely interrelated.

What are physical, social, emotional, and cognitive?

400

These variables must be considered with each developing child.

What is the child's culture, age, and temperament?

400

These include domains, components, sub-components, standards, and benchmarks.

What are the Florida Standards for 4 Year Olds / VPK Standards?

400

This begins to appear in children between ages three and five.

What is metacognition (the act of thinking about thought)?

400

This theorist's views include initiative versus guilt.

Who is Erik Erikson?

500

When children develop best, this occurs.

What is secure, consistent relationships with responsive adults and opportunities for positive relationships with peers?

500

This approach includes scaffolding, asking questions, providing appropriate materials and explanations, appropriate activities, active learning, and social interaction.

What is the constructivist approach?

500

This includes listening to the children, observing how children use materials, and collaboration with teachers.

What is the planning process?

500

In this test, one must consider the classroom, home, cultural, language, and social aspects.

What is an IQ (Intelligence) test?

500

In brain development, this is a good predictor of academic success.

What is self-control?