Joan and Keisha are building a road with blocks, but seem to be losing interest in their
play. Miss Smoak walks up to Joan and Keisha and says, “Do you need a garage for
your cars? Jerry and I can help you build one.” Which play intervention strategy is Miss
Smoak using?
a. Modeling
b. Expanding
c. Coaching
d. Mediating
Crowded indoor space can be a cause of disruptive behavior in the classroom.
Frequently telling children how special they are is likely to result in positive self-
esteem.
Children between the ages of 3 and 5 understand their behavior must please another to
be considered a friend.
Hands-on-activities and firsthand experiences mean the same thing.
Newborns have no awareness of self as apart from their immediate caregiver.
Sequencing objectives addresses the developmental nature of how children learn.
To achieve maximum efficiency and to make sure to secure the props they need,
teachers should plan a year of themes in advance.
Teaching in the Zone of Proximal development means doing something to help children
stretch their knowledge and skills beyond what they currently grasp on their own.
The kindergarten curriculum is planned around a letter each week. This is appropriate
theme planning as described in your text.
Mr. Reif sent home a newsletter to the parents of the kindergarten children that included
a simple, but detailed description of what a parent conference usually looked like and
included some sample questions that he might ask the parents and other question that
parents might ask him. It is likely that first-time parents would feel welcome and more
comfortable than in one where this is not done.
In the conflict mediation process, the teacher’s role ends once the children arrive at a
solution.
Aesthetic, affective, cognitive, language, physical and social development are all
interdependent.
Family traditions are part of culture, but not all of it.
Creative art activities should include teacher-designed step by step instructions.
Well-worded explanations are the best way to help children understand math and
science concepts.
The opposite of play is seriousness.
If materials are left out on shelves too long without variation, children will lose interest
and become bored.
Mr. Hobek’s second grade is weaving potholders for a gift using a metal frame and
looped stretch fabric purchased for this purpose. This is an appropriate construction
activity.
As teachers become more experienced, their written plans become more elaborate.
Themes should be addressed only once per year.
Object exploration is typical of the early preschool children, but is unnecessary to
5-8-year olds.
The fieldwork portion of the Project Approach occurs in Phase 2.
The first-grade curriculum requires all children to learn about the library. The library
would make an appropriate theme as described in your text.
Projects should last about one week each.
Objectives and procedures should be aligned with one another (a procedure for each
objective).
The terms screening and readiness are not synonymous.
In a fine motor activity in which children trace leaves with a marker, an effective
teaching strategy would be to ask, “Which leaf is the oak leaf?”
“Walk in the classroomthat’s the rule” is an appropriate explanation for desired
behavior.
Play is governed by internal rules.
We can expect the same mix of children in early childhood classrooms today as has
been characteristic of the past two decades.
When you focus on social skills, you are simultaneously working on increasing
children’s cognitive abilities.
The procedures section of the lesson plan describes what teachers expect children to
know.
An extension for a fine motor activity in which children are using scissors, would be to
give the children new sets of larger scissors that are easier to grasp.
Friendship coaching is primarily aimed at children who already have friends and want
more.
A specific object or event may be successfully represented by many different kinds of
materials.
Group times are mostly teacher talking times; their main focus is on children listening
and taking turns talking one at a time.
How can you promote family involvement?
a. Provide calendars that describe simple daily or weekly learning activities that
families can try at home with their children.
b. Restrict your family contact to formal conversations between family members and
program personnel.
c. Send home catalogues with all children to sell wrapping paper and holiday cards.
d. Tell other teachers in the teacher’s lounge about the families they will deal with next
year.
Mrs. Garcia is ill. Her five-year-old son Jose, offers her his teddy bear for comfort.
What aspect of prosocial behavior does little Jose still need to learn more about?
a. Recognizing Need
b. Making a Decision
c. Perspective taking
d. Instrumental Know-how
According to the NAEYC Code of Ethical Conduct, which one of the following
responsibilities is most important?
a. We shall support the rights of children with special needs.
b. Above all, we shall not harm children.
c. We shall not participate in practices that discriminate against children and families.
d. We shall respect the uniqueness of each child.
Which of the following is true?
a. In order to preserve confidentiality, assessment data should never be shared with
other teachers.
b. Assessment data should be limited to those developmental domains that fall in the
academic realm.
c. Assessment data about a child’s limitations can be shared with others if it will
minimize learning difficulties.
d. As good as it is, authentic assessment is not useful for identifying children who need
special services.
When children play games that require them to experience the concepts of inside, under,
and next to, before having to apply those concepts on paper, the teacher is
demonstrating awareness of what aspect of developmental direction?
a. Known to unknown
b. Simple to complex
c. Exploratory to goal directed
d. Accurate to inaccurate
Three-year-old Samantha clung to her mother and cried vigorously every morning when
she was brought to the St. Mary’s Childcare center. Ms. Brines began phoning
Samantha’s mother after she had settled down to play after having discussed this
strategy with the family in advance. What Characteristic of effective family
involvement is this?
a. Collaboration
b. Variety
c. Intensity
d. Individuation
Which of the following is NOT a research finding associated with developmentally
appropriate practice?
a. Children’s creativity is enhanced.
b. Children’s problem-solving skills improve.
c. Children demonstrate increased attachment to parents and grandparents.
d. Children’s reading skills improve.
What influences individual differences in children’s pretend play?
a. Age, because pretend play skills simply emerge in a systematic manner over time.
b. Cultural background and family life because poor kids do not know how to pretend.
c. Maturity, style and social involvement preferences, culture and family background.
d. Master players present in the group and the quality of materials available.
Which of the following alternatives are the LEAST likely reason family members do
not get involved in young children’s programs?
a. Most adults are disinterested in the children’s education.
b. Adult family members may feel that they don”t have the skills to participate
meaningfully.
c. Some adults are rebuffed when they are limited to menial skills and fund raising.
d. Family members may be asked to participate when they have other commitments.
Why use centers in early childhood settings?
a. The instructional difficulties related to individual and experiential differences are
minimized.
b. Teacher planning and preparation time is minimized, especially in the beginning.
c. It assures that all children participate in the same things.
d. Once set up, there is little for the teacher to do the rest of the year
Which of the following is true when children are evaluating art?
a. They are experiencing one aspect of aesthetic learning.
b. They are acting outside the realm of aesthetic learning.
c. They are learning to be judgmental.
d. They are recalling facts.
Why provide the parents of very young children who are in a program for the first time
with a guide for participation in a parent conference?
a. So the teacher will know what to expect parents to ask.
b. To increase the likelihood of parents attending and feeling comfortable enough to ask
questions.
c. This strategy is unnecessary because if the parents have been to school, they should
know it already.
d. The teacher will have control of the situation.
Which of the following statements is NOT true about children who experience low
quality programs?
a. They are often children from low-income families.
b. They do okay as long as their parents spend a lot of extra time with them at home.
c. They are likely to have poor social skills.
d. They tend to exhibit behavior problems.
Under what circumstances should teachers consciously consider culturally
appropriateness of activities?
a. In a group of children composed of children from different races.
b. In a group of children composed of children from different economic circumstances.
c. In any group of children, regardless of group composition.
d. In a group of children where some children have special needs.
Before going outside to plant seeds in the garden on the playground, Mr. Menendez
models poking a hole in dirt with his finger, placing a seed in the hole, sprinkling dirt
on top of the seed, and pouring a small amount of water over the newly-planted seed.
He says things like, “What did I do first?” and “Are you ready to plant our seeds?” This
is likely what kind of activity?
a. Planned demonstration
b. Spontaneous demonstration
c. Exploration
d. Direct instruction
Your text described the concept of developmental direction. Which of the following is
an example of concrete to abstract?
a. Arnold learns the concepts of tall and short by building towers of blocks and then
applies this knowledge to identifying tall and short objects pictured side by side in
photographs.
b. Hannah practices fine motor skills by cutting out paper shapes and then reciting the
names of the shapes.
c. Carl learns the meaning of a word by memorizing a song and then using the same
word in another song later.
d. Sarah sees and hears the teacher read the same story many times and then begins to
pick out certain words in the text herself.
Matching, patterning, and seriating are examples of which type of cognitive skills?
a. Focusing skills
b. Memory skills
c. Analyzing skills
d. Organizing skills
How can line, color, shape, form, texture, composition, balance, and space be
classified?
a. Methods of visual arts
b. Basic elements of visual arts
c. Techniques of visual art
d. Vocabulary used to evaluate children’s visual art experiences
What are the differences between the responsive component and the productive
component in the aesthetic domain?
a. The productive component includes discovery activities.
b. The responsive component focuses on the appreciation of the arts.
c. The productive component is about expression or output, and the responsive
component is about acquiring and processing information.
d. Appreciation of natural beauty, appreciation of the fine arts and the ability to form
judgments and preferences are all a part of the responsive component.
Of the following activity types, which one gives children the least control over what
happens in the activity?
a. Demonstrations
b. Direct Instruction
c. Discussions
d. Guided Discovery
Which of the following strategies is least appropriate when a center appears to be
unsuccessful (excessively noisy, disorganized, children unable to do the activity)?
a. Add something to the environment that will help organize the children’s behavior.
b. Remove extraneous, irrelevant, or distracting materials.
c. Remove the difficult children from the center.
d. Modify the activity in progress to be more congruent with children’s level of skill.
Which is true of rating scales?
a. They are essentially the same as time-sample participation charts.
b. They exist of frequency counts or behavior tallies of specific behaviors as they occur.
c. They always have an evaluative component qualifying behavior or skill acquisition.
d. They have built-in objectivity.
Why do teachers offer a variety of small group activities for children every day?
1) The children will be at different developmental levels.
2) The children will be coming from different cultural backgrounds.
3) Different children will be interested in different subjects.
4) The children will use the activities to learn more than one skill at a time.
a. 1, 2, 3 and 4
b. 1 and 2
c. 3
d. 1, 2 and 3
What benefits do children experience in projects that are NOT necessarily available in
other approaches?
1) Opportunities for in-depth investigation of a topic
2) An opportunity to make choices about what they are learning
3) A variety of learning experiences across domains
4). Hands-on-learning
a. 1, 2, 3 and 4
b. 1
c. 2
d. 2, 3 & 4
Which of the following are considered family strengths that are supported by research?
a. Firm control of behavior at home and church attendance.
b. Stability of family routines and reasonable expectations for the children.
c. A parent who volunteer regularly and works fund raisers.
d. Permissive attitude toward electronic media and homework.
Which of the following is the best definition of phonological awareness?
a. Awareness that the speech stream consists of a sequence of sounds or phonemes.
b. Understanding that oral language can be broken into smaller units and manipulated
c. Awareness of the smallest unit of sound.
d. Ability to follow verbal instructions.
What is the first thing a teacher should do in helping a child find satisfying ways to
express their emotions to others?
a. Give the child a script to use.
b. Step into the conflict on their behalf.
c. Stop the child’s inappropriate expression of feeling.
d. Recognize the child’s feelings about the situation.
Which of the following statements accurately describes the role holidays play in theme
development?
a. Holidays should be incorporated primarily through arts and crafts activities.
b. Holidays should be avoided whenever possible.
c. Holidays should be incorporated into broader concepts meaningful to the children.
d. Holiday activities should be limited to the week in which the holiday actually occurs.
Which writing implement would be the best choice for a young or inexperienced child?
a. Felt point marker or pen
b. Crayon covered with paper
c. Crayon uncovered with paper
d. A colored #3 pencil
The teachers at Elliott school are consulting their district’s performance standards. What
are these standards telling them?
a. What the preschool age children should be learning each day.
b. The difference between the second grade and third grade math goals.
c. What the National Council for the Social Studies says children need to know within
the social studies curriculum.
d. Which mathematics outcomes are being adopted nationwide.
Identify 5 characteristics of an early childhood professional.
A balanced literacy approach means making sure that effective components of reading
and writing experiences are included daily in the classroom.
The same large group space may be used for music, stories, blocks, and a climber
within the schedule of a full day.
American children are very fit as a result of play before and after school.
Older children are accustomed to functioning in groups and have little need for private
spaces.
Although most schools have written discipline policies, childcare settings do not require
such formal documents.
List 3 ways in which one might determine how and what children are learning about a
theme/project.
List three or more general guidelines about the storage and display of materials.
The human brain contains about 10 million neurons at birth that then connect with other
neurons during cognitive development.
Egocentrism refers to an inability to understand a situation from another person’s
perspective.
Jack and Jill, two four-year-olds, are building a road with blocks. Give an example of
an open-ended question. Give an example of a behavior reflection.
The accommodations made for the special needs of one child might pose a safety threat
to another child with quite different needs.
Identify 6 ways in which people are diverse.
Whole child learning refers to keeping in mind the cultural contexts in which children
learn.
The concept of literacy rotations means using leveled texts with homogeneous groups
of children.
It is important to emphasize learning goals rather than performance goals and drill with
all children; however, this is particularly true when working with second-language
learners. Why?
Portfolios should contain a collection of only the child’s best work at particular points in
time.