DEVELOPMENTALLY APPROPRIATE PRACTICE
To promote self-control/self-regulation in a DAP classroom environment, classroom rules can be posted and and personal spaces can be provided
True
True or false? Curriculum involves making decisions about WHAT will be taught and WHERE those concepts will be taught.
FALSE. Curriculum involves the methods (HOW) and content (WHAT) will be taught.
What is the process of comparing items/objects and placing them in logical sequence (ex: small, medium, large)
Ordering/Seriation
According to your test, what is the definition of Developmentally Appropriate Practice?
DAP refers to applying child development knowledge in making thoughtful and appropriate decisions about early childhood program practices, understanding that "best practice" is based on knowledge, not assumptions, or how children learn and develop. DAP is based on an accumulation of data and facts of what children are like.
What is patterning? What is an example of patterning that can be seen in a preschool classroom?
Patterns are things that repeat in a logical way. You can find patterning at the manipulative table in a preschool classroom. A child participating in peg boards can create a pattern with colored pegs. Ex: Red, blue, red, blue (ABAB pattern) or green, green, yellow, green, green, yellow (AABAAB pattern).
Name the three essential components of DAP?
What is...
1. What is known about child development and learning. This allows teachers to know what children of a particular age group will be like, what they typically will/will not be capable of, and how they learn best.
2.What is known about each child as an individual, to help teachers be able to adapt for and be responsive to individual variation.
3. What is known about the social and cultural contexts in which children live. This includes values, expectations and behaviors of their homes and communities. This information must be understood to ensure that learning experiences are meaningful relevant and respectful to the children participating.
Name and discuss TWO 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
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.
Give an example of how visual spatial skills are shown in preschool children?
Pouring water into containers through sensory/texture table play, puzzles, cooking etc. How much will fit?
T or F? In order to ensure children explore all areas of the classroom, it is DAP for teachers to use a "timed center" approach where children spend a specific amount of time in each area of the classroom before moving to the next area.
False
When a child engages in solitary play, they play alone without overt interaction with others.
True
Define emergent curriculum? Include the names of at least 2 sources of ideas for emergent curriculum.
Emergent curriculum develops when exploring what is socially relevant, intellectually engaging and personally meaningful to children. Learning activities that develop from following the interests and interactions of the classroom participants.
Sources/ideas: family and cultural experiences, issues that arise in the course of being together each day, serendipity (or what just happens), curriculum resource materials, teacher's interests and children's interests, values held for children's learning in school and the community.
What is the skill of transductive reasoning?
What is Piaget's term for a child's tendency to believe that because something happened once, it will always happen. They assume cause and effect based on events closely linked to time (a superficial connection).
Define one-to-one correspondence
An early learning math skill that involves the act of counting each object in a set once, and only once with one touch per object.
Calendar time is not considered DAP in a preschool classroom. Why not? Describe one way to use concepts about time in a DAP way?
A preschool child has a difficult time grasping the concept of time. Usually, calendar time involves rote learning. Something worth noting is children DO have an understanding of "before/after", "first/then". How can you explore this concept in a DAP way? You can count down to a special event, display children's birthdays, post photos of a past event with the children's dictation or words, utilize a picture schedule on the classroom wall, paper chain countdowns, etc.
True or False? Cooperative play only takes place amongst large groups of children.
False
It is snack time at fieldwork. You are sitting with a small group of children at the table, and you are tasked with the responsibility of taking advantage of a teachable moment related to mathematical concepts. There are graham crackers and apples for snack today. A child sitting next to you breaks the graham cracker in half and says, "Look, my cracker is now in 2 parts!) The child has just demonstrated understanding of what type of math skill?
Part vs. whole, beginning fractions!