Infants and Toddlers
Early Childhood Classrooms
Theories and Programs
Early Childhood Curriculum
Acronyms
The Educational Professional
100
When should you start reading to your child?
At birth
At age 1
At age 4
At age 6
Birth!
100
Early childhood education covers birth through
a. kindergarten
b. 3rd grade
c. preschool
b. What is 3rd grade?
100
The approach that believes children produce knowledge and form meaning based upon their experiences.
What is Constructivism?
100
Children in the early childhood years (birth through 3rd grade) learn best through
a. worksheets and workbooks
b. repeating after the teacher
c. hands-on learning, problem solving and discovery
What is c) hands-on learning, problem solving and discovery
100
The sweet spot where instruction is most beneficial for each student – just beyond his or her current level of independent capability. You can think of the it as the difference between what a child can do independently and what he or she is capable of doing with targeted assistance (scaffolding).
What is zone of proximal development? (ZPD)
100
When does most of a child's brain development occur?
Ages 0 to 6
Ages 7 to 12
Ages 13 to 17
After 18
Ages 0-6 years
200
What is when a baby looks for an object that is hidden from sight?
What is object permanence
200
When a teacher remains with the same group of students for more than one year.
What is looping
200
He believed that children can and should learn through play, is known as the "father of kindergarten," and his ideas form the basis for many activities in preschool and kindergarten today.
Who is Friedrich Froebel?
200
Research shows that play
a. has no educational value; it’s just fun
b. has value for a child’s social development (getting along with friends, cooperating with one another), but not for their academic development (reading, writing, math, etc.)
c. has value for a child’s overall development
What is c) has value for a child's overall development
200
This is the organization that developed guidelines for Developmentally Appropriate Practice.
What is NAEYC or
National Association for the Education of Young Children
200
A set of beliefs about how children develop and learn and what and how they should be taught?
What is a philosophy of education?
(Think: What is yours?)
300
When an infant is separated from a parent, he may or may not cry, but when the parent returns the infant actively seeks the parent
What is secure attachment?
300
This person was the first female physician in Italy and is well known for her child care program, Casa dei Bambini. The children engage in self-directed activities, hands-onlearning and collaborative play. They make creative choices in their learning, while the classroom and the teacher offer age-appropriate activities to guide the process.
Who Maria Montessori?
300
This constructivist educational model provides children with realistic experiences geared toward children 's current stages of learning. The daily schedule incorporates a plan-do-review sequence
What is HighScope?
300
Teaching decisions based on the analysis of assessment data to make decisions about how to meet the instructional needs of each child.
What is data-driven instruction?
300
The Federally funded program, first authorized in 1975, that ensures children with disabilities have access to a free appropriate public education.
What is IDEA?
(hint... know the 7 principles)
300
Professional dispositions are the values, commitments and professional ethics that influence behaviors in and educational setting? The most important disposition for an educational professional is_____________________.
What is caring?
400
This is Erikson's stage of infancy.
What is Trust Vs. Mistrust
400
Pour the same amount of liquid into two identical glasses. Then pour the contents of one glass into a taller, narrower glass. If the child can explain why the liquid is the same in each glass the child, the child has acquired an understanding of the concept of reversibility. This is an an example of ________
What is conservation?
400
This psychologist put forth the idea that human needs are based on a hierarchy of needs which explain how humans learn and grow.
Who is Abraham Maslow?
400
Is a teaching method that enables a student to solve a problem, carry out a task, or achieve a goal through a gradual shedding of outside assistance
Scaffolding
400
A written plan for a child stating what will be done,how it will be done, and when it will be done.
What is IEP? (Individual Education Plan)
400
Why is it is your responsibility, as an educator, to become familiar with the signs of child abuse and neglect?
What is.. As a teacher you are a mandatory reporter of child abuse
500
The leading cause of autism is______________.
A. vaccinations
B. unknown
c. poor diet during pregnancy
B. unknown
500
Ms. Long observes Juan and Jennie arguing over who will sit in the rocking chair in classroom library. Ms. Long says, "Juan, why don't you tell Jennie that she can sit in the chair to read her book and then you will sit in the chair to read your book?" This is an example of______________?
A. behavior modification
B.model resolution
C.learned helplessness
B. model resolution
500
Gardners Theory of Multiple Intelligences
This theory suggests that people can be smart in many ways.
500
Developmentally Appropriate Practice takes into consideration
a) age appropriateness
b) individual appropriateness c) cultural appropriateness
d) all of the above
What is d) all of the above
500
The standards movement established in 2001 that emphasizes accountability through testing.
What is No child Left Behind ?(NCLB)
500
The process of making sure that what is taught matches what the standards say students should know and be able to do.
What is alignment?
600
Children at this stage of Piaget's stages tend to be egocentric and struggle to see things from the perspective of others.
- Sensorimotor. Birth through ages 18-24 months.
- Preoperational. Toddlerhood (18-24 months) through early childhood (age 7)
- Concrete operational. Ages 7 to 12.
- Formal operational. Adolescence through adulthood.
- Preoperational. Toddlerhood (18-24 months) through early childhood (age 7)
600
Identify 4 ways that racial, cultural and ethnic diversity has influenced early childhood educational practices?
Educators should
1. welcome every child
2.make parents fell welcome
3.include toys and materials that are multicultural
4. literature should be inclusive
5. posters should represent diversity
600
Who insists that new learning experiences must have some connection or relationship to previous experiences for learning to occur and has four stages of cognitive development?
Who is Piaget?
600
Most of a child's day should be spent
a. practicing reading and writing correctly
b. listening to the teacher teach
c. exploring and learning through play
c
600
_________is an approach to teaching grounded in the research on how young children develop and learn and in what is known about effective early education. Its framework is designed to promote young children's optimal learning and development.
DAP
Developmentally Appropriate Practice
600
Play time is important to a child's development. Identify four reasons that play is beneficial to child development.
What is
1. play stimulates creativity
2.helps develop problem solving skills
3.helps develop self control
4.helps child learn how to get along with others