Health and Safety
Teachers should complete ______ upon entering the classroom, prior to leaving the classroom, in the hallway, once you arrive at your destination, and at periodic intervals throughout the day.
Name-To-Face
This term describes the practice of involving families directly in the classroom or program decision-making, ensuring their diverse cultures and languages are reflected in the curriculum.
Culturally responsive engagement
This type of motor skill involves the coordination of small muscles in movements involving the hands and fingers, such as cutting with scissors.
Fine Motor Skills
What are the OCFS mandated staff to child ratios for each age group at the center?
This framework refers to teaching methods that match a child's age, individual needs, and cultural background.
Developmentally Appropriate Practice
A safety and management strategy where an indoor or outdoor environment is divided into specific physical areas, and staff members are assigned to actively watch, scan, and engage children or participants within their designated space.
Zone Supervision
This term describes a child's ability to control and manage their own emotions, behaviors, and attention.
Self-regulation
This type of play occurs when children play side-by-side with similar materials but do not actively engage or interact with one another.
Parallel play
This is the mandatory total number of training hours that NYS child care providers and assistants must complete every two years across nine specific topic areas.
30 hours
When addressing a child who is upset, this practice requires the adult to drop down physically to achieve this specific posture to reduce intimidation.
Eye-level communication
Where should teachers be positioned during meal times?
Seated next to the students or standing near them in case of emergency
Which of the following is NOT an effective strategy for classroom management?
A. Establish predictable routines supported by tools to help children know what happens next.
B. Organize the room into distinct, accessible learning centers that allows safe and independent movement.
C. Address challenging behaviors only after they happen by offering free choice.
D. Keep rules simple and use positive language to portray the expectations.
C. Address challenging behaviors only after they happen by offering free choice.
This specific type of play involves children working together toward a common goal, such as building a block tower together or playing a board game.
Cooperative play
What are the only circumstances in which outdoor play does not occur for the students?
Inclement or extreme weather, when ordered by a health care provider, or when requested by the parent
What is the minimum distance required between cribs, cots, or mats during nap time?
Bonus: What direction should children be facing?
2 feet
Bonus: Feet to feet, or feet to head, never head to head
Name 3 times throughout the day that children and staff must thoroughly wash their hands.
Upon entering the classroom, before and after meal times, after using the restroom/diaper changes, before and after administering medications, whenever they are visibly dirty, after contact with bodily fluids
This technique involves a teacher changing the level of support given to a child to fit their current performance level, gradually removing aid as they learn.
Scaffolding
This type of vocabulary consists of the words a child can understand when they hear them, even if they can't say them yet.
Receptive vocabulary
Media use for children should only occur when____.
part of a planned developmentally appropriate program activity
What does the S.C.O.P.E. acronym stand for?
Safe, Clean, Organized, Professional, Education
In the event of an internal threat, what steps should be taken if a lockdown is announced?
Instead of telling children what not to do, effective educators use this type of language to state exactly what the child should do.
Positive guidance
Lev Vygotsky coined this phrase to describe the distance between what a learner can do independently and what they can do with guidance.
Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD)
Children must be provided with a program of ___-initiated, ____-initiated and ____-initiated activities which are intellectually stimulating and foster self-reliance and social responsibility.
Self, group, teacher
When should the Count, Count, Recount sheet be filled out and what information should be written down?
Before and after outside time; the time and number of students with your initial