All the influences that affect children and adults in early childhood classrooms.
What is a learning environment?
100
Teaching in ways that vary for and adapt to the age, experience, interests, and abilities of individual children within the age range for which they are intended.
What is developmentally appropriate practice?
100
This person was the first to start using child sized furniture.
Who was Maria Montessori?
100
The ability to think ahead and anticipate what is likely to make an event run smoothly.
What is planning?
100
The complex and dynamic cognitive, language, physical, motor, social, emotional, and moral processes that change over one's lifetime.
What is development?
200
Simple routines and rituals that help children to feel secure and safe, and to understand what behaviors are expected of them.
What are predictable environments?
200
What children actually experience in schools from arrival to departure and reflects the philosophy, goals, objectives, and child outcomes of the school.
What is curriculum?
200
This person was a progressive educator who first advocated the use of real life learning centers such as housekeeping, wood working, etc.
Who was John Dewey?
200
The steps you plan to take to teach a lesson.
What is procedure?
200
Requires stimulation in all domains.
What is healthy brain development?
300
The relationships that affect how children think, feel, and act, needs the same attention as the physical environment.
What is the social learning environment?
300
Tools that help develop a curriculum that is most relevant to the children whom you are teaching.
What are curriculum webs?
300
This person said that "interest is the fuel for learning."
Who was Jean Piaget?
300
The way you adapt an activity or lesson for individual learners based on assessment data that you have collected.
What is differentiation?
300
An inability to do something or a diminished capacity to perform in a specific way.
What is a disability?
400
Social learning environment that helps children understand and appreciate their own backgrounds as well as the backgrounds of others.
What is culturally responsive?
400
Focused, in-depth studies of something that children, in collaboration with teachers, initiate, direct, organize, and develop.
What are projects?
400
This person created hollow building blocks and wrote the Happy Birthday song.
Who was Patty Smith Hill?
400
Inquiry strategy to build on children's backgrounds as a way to engage children in new learning, gain their input into the learning, and provide the teachers with a starting place for new learning.
What is K-W-L?
400
A way of educating all children with exceptionalities in the most natural setting within their community.
What is inclusion?
500
Well-defined, organized areas of the classroom set aside for specific learning purposes without the teacher's constant presence and direction.
What are learning centers?
500
Considers children's interests, needs, prior knowledge, cultural backgrounds, and questions as the core of the curriculum.
What is emergent curriculum?
500
This person viewed maturation as an innate and powerful force in development.
Who was Arnold Gesell?
500
A way to brainstorm possible key concepts, ideas, and learning experiences and then connect them through a pictorial or graphic.
What is webbing?
500
During which children have an increased ability to think symbolically and conceptually about objects and people outside of their immediate environment, which is evident in children's increasing use of language and imaginative play.