Deck 3: Teaching and Learning in Developmentally Appropriate Programs

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Variation of rates

Question 2

Which of the following children is demonstrating active learning?
1) Tom is talking to himself as he tries to solve a problem.
2) LaTesha is counting each jump as she jumps rope.
3) Raymond is wandering around the room, looking for something to do.

A) Tom, LaTesha and Raymond
B) Tom only
C) Tom and LaTesha, but not Raymond
D) LaTesha and Raymond only

Answer 2

Tom and LaTesha, but not Raymond

Question 3

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.

Answer 3

The children will be at different developmental levels.

Question 4

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

Question 5

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 children's experiences in the classroom
D) To be better prepared to pass the Praxis 2 exam

Question 6

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.

Question 7

What intelligence fits this description? "Grace is reflective and sensitive to her inner moods."

A) Musical learner
B) Intrapersonal learner
C) Logical-mathematical learner
D) Interpersonal learner

Question 8

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

Question 9

Two children are playing a card game. Your book describes a teaching strategy called behavior reflections. Which of the following is an example of a behavior reflection?

A) It's great how you're cooperating.
B) I like the way you are working together.
C) You each have five cards left to play.
D) Is this your favorite card game?

Question 10

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.

Question 11

Which of the following is a characteristic of effective praise?

A) Children are told that they did a good job.
B) Using a child's name personalizes the praise statement.
C) Children's actions are compared to previous performance.
D) Children who have been praised get to stand out from their peers.

Question 12

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."

Question 13

The teacher asks the children, "What do you think will happen if we add this block to the top of the tower?" What should the teacher do next?

A) Ask a follow-up question immediately.
B) Wait several seconds before saying anything else.
C) Put the block on top so children can see what will happen as they answer.
D) Offer his own idea -- "I think it might fall down. Is that what you think?"

Question 14

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.

Question 15

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

Question 16

Which of the following is a "do it signal"?

A) Let's all look at the pictures now.
B) Here is what you have to do first.
C) Show me something that is not a circle.
D) What will happen if we put 5 on this side and 5 on that side?

Question 17

Which of the following scenarios provides an example of scaffolding?

A) A teacher reading a story book to a group of children.
B) Two three-year-olds playing side by side in the water table.
C) A kindergartner rolling out balls of modeling dough.
D) A first-grade child encouraging a three-year-old to name farm animals in a picture book.

Question 18

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

Question 19

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

Question 20

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.

Question 21

Based on your readings, name two classroom practices that support the developmental principle, variation of rates.

Question 22

Rodney and Sarah are playing with some tabletop blocks. Identify four areas of development and what the children might be learning as they play in relation to their development.

Question 23

Jack has finished reading his first chapter book. Give an example of ineffective praise. Give an example of effective praise.

Question 24

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.

Question 25

Who develops the standards that describe what children might be reasonably expected to know and do at different ages or in different grades? Provide at least three sources.

Question 26

Name and define 4 of the 8 intelligences according to Howard Garner. Discuss the implication these have for teachers in early childhood classrooms.

Question 27

The children are interested in learning about rocks. Describe three different activity types that you might use to address this content and provide a brief example of each.

Question 28

Draw a diagram depicting the phases in the Cycle of Learning. Describe each phase and the implications that these phases have in terms of early childhood practices.