Individual appropriateness means that a teacher planning for a three-year-old classroom
should consider which of the following?
a. The individual knowledge, experiences and skills of each child in the group
b. Ways in which this group of three-year-olds is the same as last year’s group.
c. A list of appropriate materials for three year olds.
d. Typical milestones for three-year-olds.
Identify the least accurate statement about physical fitness.
a. Children who are fit when young tend to remain fit in adolescence.
b. Endurance, speed, agility, coordination, reaction time, strength, flexibility and
balance are a part of being fit.
c. Time spent in physical activity has a negative effect on achievement of educational
standards.
d. Moderate physical activity improves children’s ability to focus their attention after
participation.
In learning to write, which stage appears first?
a. Alphabetic
b. Semantic
c. Consonant
d. Phonological
What is a typical characteristic of highly creative children?
a. Are rarely persistent in reaching a goal.
b. Enjoy directed activities that provide the opportunity to imitate.
c. Enjoy inquiring and asking questions, as well as problem solving.
d. Frequently do not laugh or see the humor in situations that age mates find funny.
According to research, what is one of the single best predictors of an entering
kindergarten child’s eventual reading achievement?
a. Ability to sing the ABC song
b. Liking to be read to
c. Knowledge of the alphabet
d. Receptive vocabulary
e. Having an educated parent
Which of the following would NOT be considered a red flag in speech and language
development?
a. The child does not respond to “no” or changes in tone of voice between 0-3 months.
b. The child does not answer simple “who,” “what,” and “where questions or be
understood by people outside the family between 1 and 2 years of age.
c. The child cannot understand differences in meaning or string together two or three
words
between 2-3 years.
d. The child has not developed correct syntax and pronoun usage by 2 years of age.
What is a “teachable moment”?
a. A spontaneous learning opportunity for the child.
b. A short time interval between two scheduled activities.
c. A planned activity in which the teacher highlights what the children learned that day
in a fun and meaningful way.
d. A brief teaching time when children and teachers plan what they will do next.
Which is NOT a barrier to male participation in early childhood classrooms?
a. Female family members are often gatekeepers of information and do not share it with
the men in the family.
b. Men frequently have work schedules that are not conducive to participation.
c. Men simply are not as interested in the education of the young children as are
women.
d. The interaction styles of men are different than those of women and that makes
teachers uncomfortable.
Which of the following portions of the day should have the most time allocated to it in
an effective schedule for preschoolers?
a. Greeting time
b. Toileting
c. Free Choice time
d. Group time
Documentation boards:
a. Contain 3-dimensional artifacts produced by children.
b. Should contain a description of the goals and objectives of the project depicted.
c. Are an excellent technological source of information for parents.
d. Should contain only teacher narratives.
What strategies are likely to be most effective in teaching a young child to throw a ball?
a. Playing a video of a professional baseball pitcher followed by discussion.
b. Allowing some exploration, then demonstrating followed by oral cues and practice.
c. Giving directions to children in large group followed by practice by pairs.
d. Providing small soft balls and waiting for the skill to emerge on its own.
What is characteristic of effective family involvement?
a. The program should plan the events that require all families to be involved in the
same ways, at the same time, or to the same degree.
b. Once you build a trusting relationship between programs and families, it is not
necessary to maintain contact.
c. There is a match between what programs are designed to accomplish and what
families need as well as between the strategies implemented and those to which family
members feel receptive.
d. Family members cooperate in fund raising for field trips and materials for the school
You ask a child preparing his portfolio, “Tell me why you selected that piece.” He
answers, “I picked it because it was good.” Your response to this is:
a. To teach the child additional self-reflection skills.
b. To accept the child’s response without further comment.
c. To tell the child that his answer is not well thought out and ask for another response.
d. To encourage the child to also tell what is wrong with the piece.
A person’s learning profile refers to:
a. The way a person forms letters and numerals.
b. The speed with which a person learns to read and write.
c. The amount of creativity a person brings to routine learning tasks.
d. The way a person processes information and experiences.
“The professional is never a “finished” product.” Select the most appropriate
interpretation of
this statement.
a. Professionals go to school off and on their entire careers.
b. Professionals continuously work to stay current in the field by reading, reflecting,
and attending professional development activities.
c. Professionals must obtain a CDA credential and then update it every five years.
d. The professional must work to attain the highest early childhood level ” Level VI.
In the Reggio Emilia approach, which of the following methods are used to assess
children’s learning?
a. Portfolios, memory books and children’s constructions
b. Portfolios, checklists and diagnostic evaluations
c. Memory books and certain standardized assessments agreed on by teachers and
parents
d. Digital records and paper pencil tests
What strategy of structuring the setting ahead of time is NOT a part of preparation for
group time?
a. Placement so that every child can see and hear.
b. Ensure enough space between children for all planned activities.
c. Organizing materials so that they are immediately at hand and in the order needed.
d. Keeping the group size to 10 children or fewer.
Mrs. Lachance organized her family centered childcare facility to provide a space for
parents to sit and relax as they picked up their children. She developed a coupon
sharing opportunity and library on child rearing. There was either a monthly breakfast
or potluck in the evening in addition to bimonthly phone calls or opportunities for
conferences. One Saturday a year she arranged for a gym day at the center. What
characteristic of effective family involvement is this?
a. Collaboration.
b. Variety
c. Intensity
d. Individuation
Roy is examining the plastic tubing that is available in the water table. He tries many
different ways to move the water through it ” squeezing it, blowing into it, and holding
it in different ways. William is demonstrating what phase of the Cycle of Learning?
a. Exploration
b. Practice
c. Acquisition
d. Generalization
Which of the following is NOT a benefit children gain from aesthetic experiences?
a. Assists children in acquiring skills related to perceptual abilities.
b. Provides an outlet to express feelings.
c. Allows teachers to identify artistic talent early.
d. Provides children opportunities to experience success.
Dimitri crawled around, growling to himself, sometimes approaching other children.
Nichol told him that he should just go home. Dimitri crawled over to the large blocks
where he arranged them as a three-sided enclosure with boards for a roof. Then he
growled that he was going into his own lion den. What type of a construction project
was this?
a. One from natural encounters.
b. One stemming from mutual interests of teachers and children.
c. One stemming from teacher concerns.
d. One stemming from thematic concerns.
Which of the following is NOT an effective type of family involvement for long-term
engagement?
a. School provides family members with idea for helping children learn at home.
b. Family members attend workshops or other programs for their own education or
training.
c. Family members take decision-making roles on advisory councils or on other
committees.
d. Family members are called to the administrator’s office because the child is
misbehaving in class.
What is NOT a typical criterion for a good song to teach preschool children?
a. The melody is simple and appealing.
b. It tells a simple story.
c. There is coordination of action and sound.
d. It is full of words that are new to them.
What intelligence fits this description? “Gary learns best by doing experiments and
exploring patterns/relationships.”
a. Musical learner
b. Interpersonal learner
c. Logical-mathematical learner
d. Intrapersonal learner
What of the following is NOT considered one of the arts explored in the aesthetic
domain?
a. Painting
b. Singing
c. Weaving
d. Telling Jokes
Which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. Children learn during all parts of the day, including routines like lunch and clean up.
b. Teachers should carefully plan all parts of the day to maximize learning including
routines like lunch and clean up.
c. Toileting is one time of the day when children are not learning.
d. Reducing the number of transitions in a day reduces behavior problems
A characteristic of good activity plan objectives are that they:
a. Are fun for children to do.
b. Describe child behavior/actions.
c. Relate to the theme of the day.
d. Describe how children will participate in an activity.
Cardinality is:
a. The ability to recognize the number of a small group of objects without counting
b. Changing the order of operands in addition or multiplication without changing the
outcome
c. Comparative terminology for subtraction and division
d. The last counting word named when counting a group of objects
Which of the following ideas is most closely related to the teaching strategy of
scaffolding?
a. Children learn best through indirect instruction
b. If children are taught specific cognitive skills, their intellectual development
accelerates
c. Children learn best through direct instruction
d. There is a point in children learning when the help of a more experienced child or an
adult is useful.
Mrs. Granger had several five year olds who did not seem to know what to do in the
housekeeping area and just fingered the materials. Last year, when she taught three and
four year olds in a neighboring community, they all could participate in housekeeping
play with no difficulty. What would be the best explanation of these differences in
performance?
a. Differences in maturity.
b. Ethnic differences.
c. Family Life experience.
d. Differences in learning and practice.
Which of the following describes the steps that children can be taught to resolve a
conflict?
a. Define the problem, suggest solutions, and negotiate a solution, follow-through.
b. Determine whether the conflict is intentional, review the rules, redirect problem
behavior.
c. Stop the activity, protect the hurt child, and comfort the angry child.
d. Review the situation in light of classroom rules, show concern about the other child’s
feelings, discuss the consequences of the action.
How are meta-communications used during pretend play?
a. To describe what is and is not play.
b. To share information.
c. To argue with others.
d. To ask questions
An early childhood professional is someone who works with children ages:
a. Preschool to third grade
b. Four to eight
c. Birth to eight
d. Birth to five
Mrs. Stein incorporates marching, hopping, and skipping as she leads children out onto
the playground, and encourages children to use the playground equipment creatively.
Which standard of physical literacy standards is she supporting by these routines?
a. Demonstrates competence in a variety of motor skills and movement patterns.
b. Applies knowledge of concepts, principles, strategies and tactics related to movement
and performance.
c. Achieves and maintains a health-enhancing level of physical activity and fitness.
d. Values physical activity for health, enjoyment, challenge, self-expression and social
interaction.
When children think in a convergent manner:
a. They center on already-known facts
b. They are able to think in many different directions about a problem
c. They are thinking creatively
d. They are thinking intuitively
Constant noise is a factor in overall health, cognitive development and achievement.
Extensive use of praise increases children’s motivation to participate in creative
activities.
Explain the difference between receptive and expressive vocabulary.
Identify the phases of the Project Approach and briefly define each.
Jack has finished reading his first chapter book. Give an example of ineffective praise.
Give an example of effective praise.
Human language is a built-in genetic predisposition that is hard-wired into the brain.
When family members seem to be unresponsive, the teacher would be wise not to
continue to offer suggestions for home-based participation.
Most of the storage should be arranged primarily for the teacher’s comfort and
convenience.
A mistaken behavior is when a child knowingly and intentionally breaks a rule.
Since classroom rituals add to predictability and children’s sense of security,
taking attendance, doing the lunch count, show and tell, the calendar and the weather
are essential to every group time.
What is an ecomap?
It is believed that 80 percent of ADHD results from negative parenting and poverty.
In what way can teachers use assessment data to successfully fulfill their
responsibilities?
What are some characteristics that are more likely to be observed in a child who is
emotionally healthy and functioning in a healthy way?
What is the difference between the uninvolved teaching style and the permissive
teaching style?
Growth and increasing competence in other domains will not necessarily influence the
qualitative development of intellectual capabilities.