The teacher is planning a group time around the concept of leaves. The best approach
would be to do which of the following things?
a. Have real leaves for the children to look at and handle.
b. Use a large picture book that shows leaves on trees.
c. Sing a song about leaves.
d. Remind children about the leaves that they have seen outside.
Using essential theme criteria, which would be the MOST appropriate theme for a
group of suburban preschool- age children living in Michigan?
a. Pockets
b. Santa Claus
c. Vehicles
d. The desert
What is the least appropriate step in preparing for the parent conference for a second
grade child?
a. Invite the family to come on an evening and time so that the parent can confer with
all the teachers in the building if that parent has more than one child.
b. Set up a comfortable space with adult sized chairs and paper to make notes of things
you agree to do.
c. Arrange the books that the child is using so that the parent can look at them while
waiting and your record book so that you can read off the report typically sent to the
parent.
d. Outline key ideas you want to share with the parent, making sure positive or pleasant
experiences the child has had in the classroom are reported.
What would be the next best strategy, given the alternatives above?
a. Photographs and pen and ink drawings of community housing alternatives.
b. A field trip to an apartment house and a mobile home, and having a large tent put up
on the playground.
c. A storybook about houses around the world, featuring those in Africa.
d. A furnished dollhouse, furnished doll apartment house, and a small or toy tent in the
classroom.
Under what circumstances should teachers consciously consider the cultural
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
Why don”t parents participate in some early childhood programs?
a. They already know and understand what is going on in the school.
b. They may feel unwelcome in the environment because of their own school
experience.
c. They are uninterested and uninvolved in the childrens education.
d. They believe that they are participating just by sending the children to school.
How do you structure a self-sustaining activity?
a. Just place new materials and equipment in a space large enough for it.
b. Introduce the activity to a small group who can then show other children how to do
it.
c. Set limits so that children behave properly when using materials new to them.
d. Go ahead with the activity that had been planned as a guided learning activity and
help the children out if they have difficulty.
Mrs. Rausch plans to introduce the days activities to children during the first group time
of the day. She might consider using which of the following strategies?
a. Telling children what activities are available, then reading a book, then offering a
music and movement activity before telling children “OKgo play!” to dismiss them
from group.
b. Beginning to tell children about the activities available for the day, getting up from
group to retrieve an example of an activity only if children appear confused.
c. Demonstrating activities that are new to the classroom.
d. She might do any of the above, as they all would be equally effective.
Which childcare center will have the greatest amount of parental participation?
a. The center where regular first Tuesday of the month parent meetings are held.
b. The center that has staff committed to parent involvement and trained for effective
interaction with family members.
c. The center that promotes big name specialists in child development.
d. The center that has mostly families with two parents.
Every year in November the teachers of the Mayville Childcare center focused on
Thanksgiving related activities. The community is small, rural, and of European decent.
Which of the following classrooms are the best ones to emulate?
a. The blue bird room had pictures of teepees and Native Americans in the traditional
dress typical of the expansion period of the United States.
b. The red bird room displayed pictures of children in black and white “Pilgrim” dress
with displays of gourds, and pumpkins.
c. The green bird room displayed photos of modern people celebrating with a holiday
dinner and of modern people harvesting, making applesauce and pumpkin pudding.
d. The materials used in all of these rooms are equally appropriate.
The children are playing in the pretend grocery store. After observing them for a few
moments, the teacher enters the store. She asks an open-ended question and does some
modeling to help the children focus more closely on the roles of customers and
employees. What kind of activity is this?
a. Problem solving
b. Exploration
c. Demonstration
d. Guided discovery
Which approach is most likely to enhance childrens ability to classify objects?
a. Tell the children to find all of the red ones.
b. Provide the materials that could be classified for the children to use on their own
during free play.
c. Explain in detail what attributes are and how they vary and quiz children about their
comprehension of this instruction.
d. Ask children to sort materials and then tell you why they put certain things together.
Ms. Novak was timid and wary of talking to teachers. She did not attend the group
meetings of parents for the classroom because she did not want to look foolish. Mrs.
Schurig telephoned her from time-to-time talking about the progress that Abraham was
making. What characteristic of effective family involvement is this?
a. Collaboration
b. Variety
c. Intensity
d. Individuation
Before selecting an assessment tool, you should:
a. Determine the purpose of the assessment
b. Use the one that will yield the best results for all children.
c. Always choose one that is unobtrusive
d. Never choose one that will result in a child doing poorly.
Which is not one of the 5 essential functions of inquiry?
a. Helps students “know how we know” in science.
b. Develops dispositions to use the skills, abilities, and habits of mind associated with
science.
c. Develops an understanding of the nature of science.
d. Creates new facts about how to model observation.
In response to the teachers request to tell her how many red blocks there are in a set of
40 colored blocks, Sam must use which of the following?
a. One-to-one correspondence
b. Cardinality
c. Subitizing
d. Conservation
What does it take for a child to automatically read a word in a sentence without
sounding it out?
a. The task must become associative, rather than cognitive in nature.
b. The task must become cognitive, rather than associative in nature.
c. The task involves first an associative process and then becomes cognitive.
d. In reading, all words must always be sounded out.
Which of the following is an example of an appropriate encouraging statement for a
child who says, “I”m no good!”?
a. “Youare good. You can do a lot of things.”
b. “Lets look at what you”ve accomplished so far.”
c. “I don”t want to hear you putting yourself down. Lets see how we can fix things.”
d. b and c
Which of the following is true about debriefing with children after a science activity?
a. It helps them realize that science is a collection of well-known facts.
b. It encourages children to think creatively, divergently, and convergently in their
problem solving.
c. It teaches children that science is bound by already documented laws, theories, and
principles.
d. It guards against relying on their using intuitive feelings to solve problems.
Which of the following would be required in participation charts?
a. Time sampling
b. Event sampling
c. Dated work samples
d. Involving other adults in the classroom
In the “Plan-Do-Review” process, adults do which of the following?
a. Review childrens work and make suggestions for what children can do to improve.
b. Have children describe what they want to do, encourage them to do it, then help
children reflect on what they did.
c. Assess childrens learning and then provide each child with an individualized learning
plan which children then carry out.
d. None of the above
Mr. Frank has observed that some children are playing chase and wrestling on the
playground. Other children seem to be distressed by the big body play. What type of
special group experience would best be used in this situation?
a. Greeting
b. Story Telling
c. Class meeting
d. Reporting
Children with Asperger Syndrome:
a. Have a mild form of autism
b. Usually have below-average intelligence
c. Can be taught to have age-appropriate social skills
d. Have average social cognition
Which of the following is NOT a general practice associated with DAP?
a. Primary teachers follow the schedule and lessons assigned by the central
administration with little or no deviation.
b. Primary teachers develop warm caring relationships with children.
c. Children have numerous opportunities to learn by doing through hands on activities.
d. Programs address the needs of all children including children with a special need or
those whose home language is not English.
Which of the following indicates that a child is emotionally healthy?
a. Is learning not to be aggressive toward other children
b. Is working on age-appropriate emotional tasks
c. Prefers to work and play by himself/herself
d. Does not respond negatively to adversity
During Miss Grosss carefully planned whole group teaching activity, some children
began to wiggle and poke each other. What should she do immediately?
a. Scan the group to determine childrens interest level and to see if the problem appears
to center on any particular child.
b. Stop what she is doing and scold the children for inattentive behavior.
c. Increase the volume of her voice and continue as though nothing is amiss.
d. Stop the group time and involve the children in a discussion about the group time
rules.
Permissive adults are low on which of the following dimensions?
a. Control only
b. Expectations and Nurturance
c. Nurturance, Expectations, and Control
d. Control, Expectations and Communication
What is NOT a technique for art activity?
a. Paint with cotton balls
b. Fabric crayons
c. Fold-over prints
d. Gluing
In the Reggio Emilia approach, which of the following experiences is NOT
emphasized?
a. Teachers carefully observe children to learn about their interests and understandings.
b. Children investigate projects that may last several weeks.
c. Children often work with a specialist trained in the visual arts.
d. Children are encouraged to work independent of one another.
Which of the following statements is the best reason for studying child development as
an early childhood educator?
a. To keep current with changes in mathematics and literacy expectations for children
b. To have a sound basis for deciding which children should go to kindergarten and
which children should spend another year in preschool
c. To better understand how to sequence childrens experiences in the classroom
d. To be better prepared to pass the Praxis 2 exam
Mr. Garland frequently comments, “Good job.” Which of the following is most likely
true about this?
a. He is using a highly effective response to children.
b. He is encouraging them to tell something about their work.
c. He is being judgmental and should avoid such phrases.
d. He is introducing the child to elements of art.
What is the purpose of adjusting the physical environment during use?
The content portion of a lesson plan includes both terms to introduce and facts included
in the activity.
What is the diagram that adults and children create to identify various elements of a
theme-related topic?
In order to be valid, authentic assessment should be separated from actual classroom
teaching and activity.
Direct instruction activities are often used to teach children facts or routines.
What three components are necessary for children to learn any motor skill?
What is wrong with lesson plans created at a central corporate office and distributed for
use to centers across the country, to be used on a specific date?
Briefly describe the process involved in creating an information base for a theme.
What is the least intrusive phase of the Authoritative Teaching Continuum? What adult
behavior represents maximum control? When might you use each?
Rubrics are scoring tools that list gradations of quality from excellent to poor for use in
observing or evaluating behavior or skills.
One goal of aesthetic education is to have children recognize themselves as artists.
The assessment of childrens conceptual understanding, skills, and interests should be
the basis for a teachers instruction.
Name 3 drawbacks to children enrolled in poor quality early childhood programs.
In the preschool and early primary years, young males generally move into brain
growth acceleration stages later than do females.
Select three historic figures in early childhood and give a brief description of their
contribution to the field.
The last phase of the Cycle of Learning is practice.
The printed material that surrounds us every day on labels, signs, advertisements, and
packaging is referred to as environmental print.