Four-year-old Maureen points to a blue block and calls it green. According to your text,
an appropriate response would be which of the following?
a. “No, that’s not right. Try it again.”
b. “You think that block is green. That color is blue. Let’s find some other things
colored blue.”
c. You should say nothing to the child.
d. “You really need help with your colors.”
To which of the following directions are children LEAST likely to respond by changing
their behavior appropriately?
a. Use your spoon to eat your pudding.
b. Don”t eat with your fingers.
c. Chew with your mouth closed.
d. Take smaller bites like this.
Which strategy of structuring activities is most likely to be effective?
a. A group of twenty children line up so that the teacher can see them skip and offer
suggestions.
b. The teacher plans an activity in which all of the children are skipping as best they
can.
c. The teacher plans 4 or 5 activities for 20 children in centers, providing on the spot
coaching and encouragement as she moves from center to center.
d. The teacher sets up a skipping race between the boys and the girls.
The teacher says, “Corey, I”m so glad to see you. Here’s a place for you next to Austin.”
This is an example of which teaching strategy?
a. Scaffolding
b. Guided Practice
c. Invitation
d. Behavior reflection
How does the appearance of a classroom impact learning and teaching?
a. Parents are impressed with how a place looks.
b. Children tend to imitate behaviors they observe and they are more likely to maintain
a clean and orderly room, if the adults do it.
c. If materials are in the approximately the same area, children will be attracted to that
area without other prompts.
d. If all of the materials that the children will use in a year are visible and available all
of the time, the curriculum will be enhanced.
Wanda pulls a lotto game off the shelf. She says to another child, ” This is a lot like my
memory game at home. Let’s try it. ” Wanda is entering what phase of the Cycle of
Learning?
a. Exploration
b. Practice
c. Acquisition
d. Generalization
Which of the following reasons is LEAST likely to be one that children in the early
childhood years use in determining that an action is bad?
a. The action harms a person (e.g., hitting).
b. The action disrupts the social order (e.g. not putting toys away).
c. The action violates people’s rights (e.g., name calling).
d. The action damages property (e.g., breaking something).
What is the first indication of emergent literacy in a young child?
a. Child uses a single letter for a word
b. Child is scribbling
c. Child uses letter-like forms
d. Child writes letter strings
Mr. Davidson cordoned off a section of the school grounds as a nature study area
featuring plants that grow naturally in the region. What is the BEST educational
response to the question: “Why have the children not planted a formal flower garden?”
a. This portion of the playground wasn”t getting much use anyway.
b. This area gives children a first-hand opportunity to study plants, insects and other
small animals typical of the region.
c. Children like to be outdoors.
d. Natural habitats are less expensive to maintain then formal flower beds.
Which strategies are best for teaching motor skills?
a. Coaching and demonstration.
b. Experimentation, followed by correction.
c. Telling children to try harder.
d. Waiting for the motor skill to emerge.
Ordering is the operation of which of the following?
a. Identifying common relations between objects.
b. Pairing on exact or identical attributes.
c.Seriating objects by attributes.
d. Categorizing on the basis of a primary attribute.
When should a teacher feel most confident that she is engaging in developmentally
appropriate practices?
a. When her program has purchased a curriculum that has been advertised as
developmentally appropriate.
b. When his Head Start leadership has chosen a curriculum from a list that is described
as developmentally appropriate.
c. When she makes daily judgments about how individual activities meet the specific
needs and interests of children in the group.
d. When he provides ample time for play indoors and outside.
The children are using their own version of writing to reconstruct or describe events.
What is the best description for this process?
a. Enactive representation
b. Practice
c. Acquisition
d. Symbolic representation
When should we begin teaching children how to edit their written work?
a. When they are writing a number of power words and can construct a sentence.
b. In third grade, when they can use a dictionary.
c. As soon as they are writing words so they do not develop inappropriate spelling
strategies
d. When they are doing process writing.
A four year old with cerebral palsy is enrolled in your classroom The child’s IEP is
shared with you. IEP stands for:
a. Inclusive Environmental Plan
b. Individualized Educational Plan
c. Integrated Educational Program
d. Inclusive Educational Play
A box covered with foil stood in the corner near some silver covered capes and foil
covered smaller boxes with rectangular space cut out of them which allowed the
children who wore them to see. Four children donned their ‘space suits” and entered
their ‘space ship” and prepared for the countdown. Mr. Redker was pleased with the
way this unit was developing. What is the least likely type of play?
a. Role play
b. Theme-related play
c. Write and play
d. Socio-dramatic play
Ms. Jones wants to promote environmental awareness in her classroom. Which of the
following activities might you see during the day that would address this goal?
a. Group time on “Stop, Drop and Roll.”
b. Children learning scripts such as, “It’s my turn next.”
c. Children make posters about littering
d. A class meeting in which children practice listening to and acknowledging others’
rights, opinions and feelings.
In order to obtain good reliability in scoring comprehension when taking an oral
reading sample, which of the following would be appropriate?
a. Structure several questions and ask the same questions of each child tested.
b. Structure individual, different questions for each child.
c. Ask closed-ended questions to cut down on ambiguity.
d. Ask another teacher to listen in.
Which of the following cognitive theorists was considered the “father of the cognitive
movement”?
a. Albert Bandura
b. Robert Syler
c. Jean Piaget
d. Lev Vygotsky
What is the best closing to complete a 20-minute group time?
a. “That is all for today.”
b. “You will have to hurry in getting your coats on to not miss the buss.”
c. “Children wearing red may go first. Now those wearing green”
d. Stop speaking, stand up and walk to the food cart.
Tracy is surrounded by permissive adults. Over time, what does the research say she
will probably be like?
a. Affectionate
b. Compliant
c. Independent
d. Hostile
Which part of the Project Approach is happening when the children discuss their
experiences with a topic, then represent their understandings in a variety of ways?
a. Phase 1
b. Phase 2
c. The Assessment Phase
d. Phase 3
Which of the following statements is an appropriate challenge?
a. I bet you can”t find 10 words that start with “R” on the next page.
b. Would you like to try?
c. Why do sheep have such thick coats?
d. Let’s figure out how many different ways there are to put these blocks together.
Which of these would be the best indicator of a high quality program for children?
a. The curriculum supports whole child learning.
b. There are 12 children in the class.
c. The teacher has experience in the elementary grades.
d. The program director likes children.
Why should the level of skills required for activities vary if all the children in the group
are the same age?
a. The children will be at different developmental levels.
b. The children will be coming from different cultural backgrounds.
c. Different children will be interested in different subjects.
d. The children will use the activities to learn more than one skill at a time.
Following completion of the kindergarten year:
a. Assessment data should be shredded so that objectivity is not hampered.
b. Assessment data should be shared with the grade 1 teacher.
c. All assessment data should be sent home to parents.
d. All assessment data should be maintained by the kindergarten teacher for future
reference.
Children in dramatic play are “cooking” for their babies and each other, but no one is
“eating.” Their teacher sits at the table and says, “Can someone take my order?”
Children excitedly look for the clipboard and pencils kept in the pretend play area. One
child comes to her, clipboard in hand, and says, “What can I get for you today?” What
play intervention strategy did the teacher use?
a. Modeling
b. Mediating
c. Coaching
d. Expanding
What is the last skill to be acquired on the continuum of phonological awareness?
a. Rhyming
b. Writing fluency
c. Phonemic awareness
d. Balanced literacy
Jack and Jerome are both five years old. Jack’s language development is more advanced
than Jerome’s. Jerome is more physically coordinated and stronger than Jack. These
children illustrate which developmental principle?
a. Normative sequence
b. Holistic development
c. Variation of rates
d. Cumulative and delayed effects
Mrs. Gregory is receiving a new child into her kindergarten program. Mary is a dwarf
and is the size of a two year old. Which of the following is the best approach for her to
follow?
a. Ask Mary to move a large block from place to place when she moves in the
classroom.
b. Eliminate all walking field trips in the neighborhood.
c. Provide stools as appropriate so Mary can reach shelves; ensure that she has
independent access to toilets, lavatories, and drinking fountains; adapt a chair for
comfortable seating.
d. Inform Mary’s parents that the district does not have the money to alter the
physical environment just for one child.
Which of the following bridges children’s informal knowledge with formal concepts?
a. Learning mathematical content and processes
b. Opportunities presented for real problem solving
c. Watching, listening, memorizing, and copying
d. Offering particular time slots in the day for mathematics
The teacher notices that over the past several days, children have been leaving toys out
on the playground. He decides to address the problem during group time. Which of the
following group times would offer the best vehicle for addressing the problem?
a. Planning times
b. Class meetings
c. Brainstorming Groups
d. Plan-do-review
The teacher who offers children more time at recess if everyone completes their work
on time is hoping children will respond at the identification level of compliance.
Explain what family-teacher partnership or collaboration means.
The closing of each group time is actually a transition to the next event in the daily
schedule.
Describe some examples of the kind of knowledge that children must learn in the
category “Social Conventional Knowledge” and why it cannot be taught in a
constructivist manner.
What are the four phases through which self-regulation emerges?
What is the difference between story reenactment and pretend play with fictional roles?
Quality is determined primarily by the curriculum that has been adopted by the early
childhood programs in which they are enrolled.
Programs characterized by developmentally appropriate practice are ones in which
teachers spend much of their time moving throughout the room working with children
individually and in small groups.
Participation charts are used to evaluate the quality of a child’s interaction with others
during a class activity.
What materials should be a part of all centers?
Young children don”t always see the connection between their actions and
consequences.
Identify the steps associated with prosocial behavior.
Based on your readings, name two classroom practices that support the developmental
principle, variation of rates.
Name the four databases that are important in a child’s developing cognition. Give a
specific example from each one of what a child would have to know in order to
differentiate between a spider and an insect.
How is the quality of language development affected by children’s early experiences?
Name 3 reasons why teachers plan activities in advance.
To avoid boredom, children should work with new art materials every day.
Writing is an activity that is best introduced after children have learned to read a few
sight words.
The physical environment provides cues for appropriate behavior for the children as
well as stimulating learning.
According to the U.S. Census, the majority of young children live in two parent
families.