Effective Practices in Early Childhood Education, 3e (Bredekamp)
Chapter 8 Creating a Caring Community of Learners: Guiding Young Children
1) What is a caring community of learners?
A) another name for the mesosystem in Bronfenbrenner’s ecological model
B) a classroom in which children and adults have warm positive, respectful relationships
C) a community outreach program to help teach child care to the general public
D) when the teacher has very few rules in the classroom and allows the children to teach
themselves
2) What has the CLASS system discovered about the social-emotional climate of classrooms?
A) The higher the emotional quality in the classroom, the better children’s social and emotional
outcomes will be.
B) Classrooms with lower emotional quality increase the academic achievement of the children.
C) Aggression between the students does not affect the emotional climate of the classroom.
D) Separating the “bad kid” from the rest of the class will help everyone learn better.
3) Which statement regarding children behavior is true?
A) Young children are very receptive to how adults and peers perceive them.
B) Children act out on purpose when they do not like their peers.
C) When a teacher treats a child like the “bad child,” that child will just give up on trying to
improve his/her behavior.
D) Children’s behavior is inherently rooted in their genetic makeup.
4) What is equally or more important to having a warm emotional climate in a classroom
according to the CLASS system?
A) an intense academic curriculum
B) little to no aggression or hostility among children and teachers
C) having an imaginary play area in the class room
D) the children pleasing the teacher
5) Kristen is a seasoned preschool teacher. Eric is a child who has been persistently disruptive
and aggressive to other children. Kristen decides positive behavior support is the best course of
action. This is an example of which element of the teaching pyramid?
A) positive relationships with children
B) social and emotional teaching strategies
C) high-quality supportive environments
D) individualized intervention
6) Typically, who are the first people that a child attaches to?
A) parents
B) extended family
C) child care workers
D) siblings
7) Danielle is a new child at her child care center. She is 18 months old and has been in 3
different foster care homes thus far. She is irritable most of the time and does not play well with
other children. She often seeks comfort from caregivers and teachers, but then screams when she
receives it. What type of attachment is Danielle most likely exhibiting?
A) secure attachment
B) secure base confusion
C) insecure-resistant attachment
D) disorganized attachment
8) Eve worries that her daughter will be securely attached to her infant teacher instead of her,
because she spends more time with the teacher throughout the day. Is she correct to worry?
A) No, a child can have several secure attachments at a time.
B) Yes, quantity of time spent together directly correlates with degree of attachment.
C) No, a child will always be securely attached to her/her mother, no matter what.
D) Yes, and it is healthier to attach to the person who provides the most care.
9) How can a teacher promote children’s developing friendships?
A) assign children individual classroom duties that they rotate weekly
B) let children choose whom they would like to sit next to during individual reading time
C) suggest play dates outside of school to parents
D) let the children hang photos of them and their family in the classroom
10) What type of conflict resolution is being taught if a teacher tells a student, “Chris, I know
that you wanted to read the book, but Jordan got upset when you took it without asking”?
A) proposing solutions when the children do not have reasonable ideas
B) giving the child the opportunity to suggest solutions
C) clarifying and state the problem
D) helping children recognize their responsibility in a conflict situation
11) What is “the ability to understand, identify, and respond to emotions in oneself and others in
a healthy manner”?
A) conflict resolution
B) redirection
C) emotional literacy
D) time-out
12) Which of the following is an example of a redirection?
A) putting Johnny in his own area of the room after he bit Becca for taking his toy
B) offering Johnny his own similar toy in a different area of the room
C) scolding Johnny after he bites Becca
D) taking the toy from Becca before Johnny bites her
13) What is it called when children change from cleaning up the classroom to getting ready for
lunch?
A) transition
B) schedule
C) routine
D) lesson plan
14) Which of the following is one strategy that can be used with boys to increase the likelihood
of their success in the classroom?
A) discuss during circle time the effects of their behavior on the whole group
B) place them in time-out as a punishment
C) allow boys to have increased indoor and outdoor large-motor and whole-body experiences
D) use the threat of the consequence but allow them to play on if they are being active
15) If Darren hits Zaya because she took his truck away and the teacher recognizes that the
hitting was because Darren has limited language, then that teacher would probably use what term
to describe his hitting behavior?
A) functional behavior
B) mistaken behavior
C) inappropriate behavior
D) appropriate behavior
16) Bullying usually starts to occur in the primary school years. Which of the following
statements is true about this behavior?
A) Bullying has genetic roots; if a parent bullies, so too will his or her children.
B) Bullying in the U.S. has become an epidemic.
C) There is no way to prevent bullying from occurring.
D) Roots of bullying behaviors are evident in the preschool years.
17) Eric, a toddler, has been biting his peers. The best way to address this behavior is for his
teacher to
A) bite him back
B) ignore it; it is developmentally typical of children his age
C) have another child bite him so he knows how it feels
D) make sure to make Eric feel nurtured, loved and cared for to prevent a future occurrence
18) According to Strain and Hammeter, what can teachers do so that they become more
comfortable with disturbing behavior?
A) remove the child from the class so that the teacher can be more effective with the other
children
B) report the family to social services since the parents have not been involved with trying to
solve the child’s problem
C) focus on small successes and avoid blaming parents or other uncontrollable events
D) stop looking at why the child is misbehaving and just intervene by providing consequences
for the misbehavior
19) What is a systematically planned and implemented set of actions designed to alter the course
of a child’s development used when a child demonstrates challenging behaviors?
A) individualized education plan
B) functional assessment
C) challenging behavior plan
D) individualized intervention
20) Explain the term caring community of learners and explain the short-term and long-term
benefits of this approach.
21) Describe The Center on Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning’s Teaching
Pyramid and explain its effectiveness on young children’s behavior.
22) Describe the elements of high-quality supportive environments.
23) Define the term emotional literacy and explain how early childhood professionals can teach
this to young children.
Chapter 8 – Creating a Caring Community of Learners: Guiding Young Children