Effective Practices in Early Childhood Education, 3e (Bredekamp)
Chapter 9 Teaching to Enhance Learning and Development
1) What refers to how children construct meaning in situations?
A) teaching strategy
B) learning strategy
C) child-initiated experience
D) instructional climate
2) What does the CLASS assess in an early childhood classroom?
A) the emotional climate, classroom organization, and instructional climate in a
classroom
B) teaching strategies
C) the size and appropriateness of the available toys for the children
D) teacher discipline style
3) Which is true regarding teaching?
A) Teaching is a science and an art.
B) Teaching is a science.
C) Teaching is an art.
D) Children cannot be taught until they are 3 years old.
4) What is pedagogy?
A) the use of an approach that has been proven to be successful based on research
evidence
B) something that a teacher says or does to engage children and contribute to their
learning and development
C) the result of having a well-organized classroom
D) a tool used by teachers to help them teach their students how to read
5) Ms. Walton has a science table in her classroom that has leaves, magnifying glasses, and
flowers in it. One day, Mary becomes very interested in the flowers and starts asking Ms. Walton
a lot of questions. The next day, Mary brings in her own flowers to show Ms. Walton and for
them to look at in the science table. What is the best term to describe this scenario?
A) teacher-initiated experience
B) teaching strategy
C) a redirection
D) child-initiated experience
6) Morgan has become very good at separating and organizing beads by color. Her teacher
decides to give her beads of all different shapes and colors and encourages Morgan to organize
the beads by shape, instead of color. What teaching strategy is Morgan’s teacher using?
A) demonstrating
B) modeling
C) creating and adding challenges
D) scaffolding
7) Which teaching strategy would a teacher be using when he shows the correct way to perform a
skill or procedure while children observe the outcome?
A) demonstrating
B) modeling
C) creating and adding challenges
D) scaffolding
8) Which type of question is “Why do you think the girl in the story cried?”
A) closed-ended question
B) open-ended question
C) teacher-initiated question
D) co-constructed question
9) Working collaboratively to solve a problem or clarify a concept is called
A) open-ended questioning
B) scaffolding
C) direct instruction
D) co-construction
10) According to the research, how long should a teacher wait for a response after asking a
question?
A) 3 seconds
B) 5 seconds
C) 45 seconds
D) as much as 1 minute
11) Scaffolding assists a child to work just beyond his or her current level of understanding. This
area is referred to as what?
A) zone of proximal development
B) wait time
C) creating and adding challenges
D) child-initiated experience
12) KWL is part of which strategy to activate and build on children’s prior knowledge?
A) reading to children
B) cues and questions
C) advance organizer
D) co-construction
13) Drawing a graph to represent the results of a poll taken in class, such as which color is the
most popular, would be which strategy to help children build conceptual frameworks?
A) graphic representation
B) classification systems
C) cues and questions
D) modeling
14) Activities that engage children in thinking and reflecting about their own learning are called
what?
A) open-ended questions
B) scaffolding activities
C) cues and questions
D) metacognitive activities
15) Shawnie believes in planning and reflection, generating and testing hypotheses, and other
reciprocal teaching strategies. She is aiming to engage children’s
A) empathy
B) creativity
C) metacognition
D) persistence
16) Ari is using small groups to teach mathematics. How many children should be in each group?
A) 2-3
B) 4-6
C) 5-8
D) 10-12
17) Which of the following roles would a teacher be playing if he was playing equally with the
children, but being a patient in a doctor’s office, instead of the doctor?
A) co-player
B) play leader
C) onlooker
D) co-constructor
18) Technology used to help improve the functional abilities of individuals with disabilities is
called what?
A) transmedia play
B) digital media
C) assistive technology
D) community building
19) Explain how teaching young children is both a science and an art.
20) List the teaching strategies discussed in this chapter and discuss two of those in detail.
21) What is reciprocal teaching and how can it be achieved by those working with young
children?
22) List the learning centers typically found in high quality learning environments. Select two
and describe what materials those centers might include.
Chapter 9 – Teaching to Enhance Learning and Development