Who's This?
This person is known as the founder of Kindergarten. He developed gifts and occupations to help young children learn, and he believed children learn through this approach.
Who is Friedrich Froebel?
This is best practices based on how children grow and develop and on individual and cultural differences.
What is DAP? (Developmentally Appropriate Practice)
This act from 1975, provides guidelines and regulations for the education of children with disabilities.
What is IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act)?
A child working on controlling their body and dealing with their emotions is working on this...
What is self-regulation?
This term refers to the ongoing process of learning and training throughout a career, to better a persons knowledge and performance.
The early childhood education model in which children learn to do things for themselves in prepared environments was founded by this woman.
Who was Maria Montessori?
A strategy/organizer teachers may use to find out a student's background knowledge and use it to plan lessons at the beginning of a unit.
What is a K-W-L chart?
In 2002, President Bush signed a law for education to improve educational outcomes for students in the US. NCLB was the accronym.
What was No Child Left Behind?
Social, cognitive, informal, socio-dramatic, outdoor, rough and tumble are all forms of this.
What are types of Play?
This is a teaching framework that promotes a shift in responsibility from the teacher to the student over time.
What is the Gradual Release of Responsibility?
This person's theory believes that development proceeds towards greater complexity, self-regulations, and symbolic or representational capacities in set stages.
Who is Piaget?
This is a professional organization for Early Childhood educators that provides guidance and promotes high-quality early childhood education.
What is National Association for the Education of Young Children. (NAEYC)
Someone who is required by law to report to the proper authorities if they suspect that a child is being abused or neglected.
Who is a mandated reporter?
A type of class where children get to stay with the same teacher for more than one year.
A general education classroom containing both typically developing students and students with disabilities. This type of classroom helps every student, regardless of ability level, learn and participate by providing individualized supports and services within a general education setting.
What is an Inclusive Classroom?
This person developed the theory that intelligence is not a single ability, but a set of many that build together.
Who is Howard Gardner?
This program is for children age 3-5, low income, 10% of the program must include children with disabilities and homeless. (HS)
What is Head Start?
In 1965, an important act was passed to provide comprehensive early childhood education, health, nutrition, and parent involvement services to low-income children and their families.
What is The Head Start Act?
Children interact with each other by asking questions or sharing, but don't actually play with each other.
What is Associative Play?
This is the time between a teacher asking questions and getting the answer.
What is Wait Time?
A theorist who coined the Zone of Proximal Development and scaffolding.
Who is Lev Vygotsky?
What is Social Emotional Learning?
President Lyndon Johnson put into action various social programs to promote health education, and overall welfare of people from low socioeconomic backgrounds.
What is the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964?
The difference between the number of words a poor child hears and the number of words an affluent child hears in the first 3 years of life.
What is a Word Gap?
Teaching in response to the diverse needs of students so that all students within a classroom can learn effectively regardless of differences in ability.