School Knowledge
What is the Art Festival?
The act to be completed after diaper changing, assisting with toileting, eating, handling food/medicine/chemicals/animals, personal toileting, outside play, arriving to school, removing gloves, or touching bodily fluids
What is hand washing?
A man-made material that should be used sparingly or not at all in classroom spaces.
What is plastic?
Age at which executive functioning skills are developed before growth begins to significantly slow.
What is 5 years old?
The primary philosophy used at FSCS to manage and transform behavior.
What is Conscious Discipline?
What are the 6 Tools of the Mind Stations?
Love, Safety, Honestly, Diligence, Joy, Respect, and Nutrition
What are the FSCS Core Values?
Love, Safety, Honestly, Diligence, Joy, Respect, and Nutrition
What are the core values?
The minimum number of daily opportunities for outdoor play.
What is 2?
An intentionally curated collection of materials that are set in a way to provoke open thoughts, ideas, and actions in children without teacher intervention.
What is a provocation?
A common neurodevelopmental disorder that hinders a persons executive functioning skills and often requires classroom accommodations.
What is ADHD?
A safe area in every classroom where children may choose to go when seeking space, calm, or less sensory input.
What is the calm space?
A representation on paper of what a child expects to do in their station.
What is a play plan?
The age goal for every infant to be walking with steady feet.
What is 18 months?
This is your most direct supervisor.
Who is Cindie?
The number of children a teacher can have based on age.
What is ratio?
The country the Reggio-Emilia approach was founded.
What is Italy?
What is working memory?
Perception, Unity, Attention, Free Will, Acceptance, Love, and Intention
What are the 7 Powers of Concious Discipline?
A daily activity set up around the idea of being a "story lab"
What is gathering?
A form of play in which children play adjacent to each other, but do not try to influence one another's behavior
What is parallel play?
States "To build foundations for peaceful, thoughtful people who positively influence society."
What is the school Mission Statement?
The maximum number of hours a child can go before being offered food.
What is 3 hours?
In Reggio-Emilia, when a learning focus might last weeks or months depending on the interest level of the students.
What are Long Term Projects?
The ability to exhibit self-control.
What is inhibitory/impulse control?
One Power of Conscious Discipline that when neglected will result in an excess of negative behaviors and when nurtured will result in more effective classroom management.
The handwriting activity that helps develop fine motor coordination for drawing and penmanship.
What is graphics practice?
An educational philosophy that encourages risk, exploration, creativity, and problem-solving in outdoor play.
What is Anji Play?
The minimum number of working days that PTO requests must be submitted.
What is 10 working days?
The number of training hours each teacher must complete each year.
What is 24 hours?
When teachers tell the story of the children’s early childhood experiences through photographs, video, written word, displays, etc.
What is documentation?
The ability to revise plans and actions in response to changing circumstances.
What is Cognitive/Mental Flexibility?
An activity that provides the opportunity for young children to experience being the nurturer by interacting with baby dolls in the same ways that we as caring adults might interact with them.
What is Baby Doll Circle Time?
An activity that helps children practice concepts of print, book handling, comprehension, and turn taking roles with a peer.
What is buddy reading?
The ability in infants to remember that unseen objects are still there.
What is object permanence?
A document that must be posted in every classroom that details planned activities for the class.
What is a lesson plan?
When curriculum for the classroom is based on children's interests, ideas, skills, and developmentally appropriate challenges.
What is emergent learning?
A teaching philosophy used at FSCS that helps support executive functioning skills in addition to other academic and social-emotional skills.
What is Tools of the Mind?
A highly simplified model that helps us understand the complex, integrated function of the human brain in relation to behavior.
What is the Brain State Model?
When a teacher sits with a child and explores a book at the child's pace.
What is shared reading?
Hearing a tune in your head which is no longer present.
What is Audiation?
The philosophy used at FSCS that values the child as central to their own learning, allows then to pursue their own interests, and often refers to "the third teacher."
What is Reggio Emilia?
The number of minutes a child may be expected to sit out from an activity as a consequence for behavior.
What is 1 minute plus their age in years?
The philosophy that children have the ability to express themselves in more than one way.
What is The Hundred Languages of Children?
The theory describes the challenge of being interrupted or having to switch tasks suddenly, to a neurotypical person.
What is Tendril Theory?
The person that founded Conscious Discipline.
Who is Dr. Becky Bailey?
What is scaffolding?
The type of play that describes when babies play with and explore the properties of objects.