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DEVELOPMENTALLY APPROPRIATE PRACTICE
PLAY
CURRICULUM
LITERACY FOR PRESCHOOLERS
MATH
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DAP is a curriculum that includes a rigid set of standards that dictate practice. True or False?
What is False?
100
Play is an intrinsically motivated activity which emphasizes the process rather than the product. True or False?
What is true.
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Curriculum are the methods and content to be taught. True or false?
What is true?
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Calendar time focusing on day and month names, dates and years is part of DAP in preschool. True or False?
What is False.
100
What is the process of touching one object for each number that is counted aloud?
What is one to one correspondence?
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DAP refers to applying __________ ___________ ___________ in making thougtful and appropriate decisions about early childhood program practices.
What is child development knowledge?
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Piaget introduced three categories of play. 1. Functional 2. Symbolic 3. Name the third?
What is games with rules?
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Define integrated curriculum?
What is the various subject matter disciplines in common related activities or projects, rather than as separate branches of knowledge?
200
List two ways for teachers to use concepts about time in a DAP way.
What is using a timer to alert children to taking turns at an activity. counting off days until a field trip using before, later, next, and after
200
Write an example of an ordinal number on the board?
What is first, second, third, etc?
300
Name the three domains of development?
What is physical, cognitive, and social/emotional?
300
Name one of the 10 ways play is the most appropriate curriculum for young children according to your text?
Play: 1. provides for all areas of development 2. emphasizes learning as an active/interactive process 3. presents highly motivated opportunities for learning 4. allows for differences 5. allows for practice and repetition of newly acquired skills, competencies, and ideas 6. promotes self-regulation 7. contributes to brain development 8. promotes acquisition of foundational skills 9. lays the cornerstone for social/moral develoment 10. supports emotional development
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Name two benefits of an integrated curriculum?
What is 1. provides coherence for children's experiences and permits optimum construction of meaning. 2. it allows children to understand how to apply the knowledge in broadly relevant ways. 3. allows children to learn through activities in large time blocks. 4. the time and opportunity for children to engage in the repeated activities needed for real learning and mastery. 5. internal motivation to learn is a result of involvement over time in projects and activities of interest.
300
What are two of the seven components of literacy in relation to Cognitive/Language/Literacy Environments for preschoolers?
What is knowledge of print, knowledge of letters and words, comprehension of meaning, awareness of books and other texts, seeing literacy as a source of pleasure, and conversation?
300
Give an example of how visual spatial skills are shown in preschool children?
What is pouring, puzzles, cooking etc. How much will fit?
400
What are two of the five interrelated dimensions of Early Childhood Practice?
What is creating a caring community of learners, teaching to enhance development and learning, constructing appropriate curriculum, assessing children's learning and development, and establishing reciprocal relationships with families?
400
This is Vygotsky's notion of the distance between the child's actual developmental level of independent problem solving and the potential develomentally level of problem solving with adult guidance or by working with more capable peers.
What is zone of proximal development?
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Define emergent curriculum?
What is learning activities that develop from following the interests and interactions of the classroom participants.
400
What is the skill of conservation?
What is Piaget's term for awareness that two objects are equal according to a certain measure remain equal even where there is a perceptual change?
400
Name any of the math concepts that have not been mentioned in this category?
What is whole/part terminology, measurement, geometry of shape, geometry of pattern, classifying, problem solving, seriation?
500
Name the 3 kinds of information and knowledge that DAP is based on?
What is 1. What is known about child development and learning. 2. What is known about each child as an individual. 3. What is know about the social and cultural contexts in which children live.
500
Name Parten's stages of play?
What is 1. Unoccupied 2. Solitary 3. Parallel 4. Associative 5. Cooperative
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Name two sources that the text identifies for ideas for emergent curriculum.
What is 1. children's play, comments, and questions 2. adult's interests and passions 3. things, events, and people in the environment 4. developmental tasks 5. family and cultural influences 6. issues that arise in the course of living together day to day 7. serendipity 8. curriculum resource materials
500
Define centration.
What is the tendency of preoperational thinkers to focus attention on one aspect of any situation while ignoring all other aspects?
500
Name the five domains in the NYS Prekindergarten Foundation for the Common Core.
What is 1. Approaches to Learning 2. Physical Development and Health 3. Social and Emotional Development 4. Communication, Language, and Literacy a. Approaches to Communication b. English Language Arts and Literacy 5. Cognition and Knowledge of the World math, science, social studies, the arts, and technology