Materials to Support Concepts and Skills
A teacher places boxes, along with scarves and other fabric for infants to fill and dump out, which will help the mobile infants in her classroom explore which concept or skill.
Spatial Relationships
_____ is the single most important part of the environment to consider given mobile infants' increasing abilities to move around on their own and communicate more when setting up the learning environment to allow for them to explore.
Safety
By building a secure bond with a mobile infant, this will will help you support the child if they have bad ______ anxiety whenever their parent or guardian leaves.
Separation Anxiety
A large cardboard box with a door cut into will allow the mobile infants infants in Bruce's class hide and peek out. This will help them explore this concept or skill.
Object Permanence or Explicit Memory
While in the Block Area seated next to Reginald, Ray decides to describe how Reginald is moving the big red car he is playing with across the floor. This is an example of _________ talk.
Parallel Talk
Muriel is a mobile infant who has become interested in throwing. Rather than trying to stop her from throwing balls, Maggie should ______ Muriel towards some soft balls she throw, so that she can explore throwing and not endanger other children.
At the sandbox, there are large treasure chests buried beneath the sand. By providing shovels and buckets to the children, they will be able to practice this important concept or skill.
Maggie is rotating out materials in the music area of her mobile infant classroom. She sees several drum sets that would be appropriate for the children in her class to use. How many of these drum sets should she put out to allow different children to imitate or do different actions with?
Multiple (or any number more than 1 or 2 is acceptable)
While _______ may be uncommon for two mobile infants to perform as a social skill, it is possible for them to do this behavior with an object such as a large item they are playing with at the same time such as a large piano or a toy garage.
Sharing
A teacher has soft balls of different shapes and sizes placed next to ramps for the children to roll them up and down. These materials allow the children to explore this important concept or skill.
Cause and Effect
While sitting next to Reginald, Ray describes how he and Reginald are both playing with big red cards in the block area. Ray is using an example of ____ talk.
Self-Talk
______ _____ is a core part of communication. By engaging mobile infants in back-and-forth games, we are strengthening their language and cognitive skills and helping them build on their ability to do this important social skill.
Taking Turns (or Take Turns)
Taylor is sitting on the floor with Ari, a mobile infant. She is helping him activate a toy where animals (a rabbit, a cow, a pig, etc.) pop-up when you press a button. This helps Ari explore what specific concept or skill?
Cause and Effect
Instead of isolating a child who repeatedly shows challenging behaviors, experts recommend engaging them in _____ _____. This technique was developed by Stanley Greenspan and was primarily used to address the needs of children who were easily overwhelmed by sensory input.
Floor Time (Time In)
Older infants and young toddlers are often not yet able to reflect on things they have done wrong and are still learning to regulate their actions and emotions, which means that ____ ___ is not considered acceptable to use.
Time Out