ECE 300 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS &
ELABORATED CORRECT ANSWERS
Developmentally appropriate practice (or DAP) - Correct Answer ✔✔ s a perspective
within early childhood education whereby a teacher or child caregiver nurtures a child's
social/emotional, physical, and cognitive development by basing all practices and
decisions on
(1) theories of child development,
(2) individually identified strengths and needs of each child uncovered through authentic
assessment, and
(3) the child's cultural background as defined by his community, family history, and
family structure.
Intentional Teacher - Correct Answer ✔✔ According to Ann Epstein (2007), an
intentional teacher has a purpose behind every decision and skill in articulating the
reasons for actions.
Addressing Standards - Correct Answer ✔✔ • Know what standards are used in your
program and in your state • Design a curriculum that addresses early learning standards
• Assess what children have learned in terms of standards • Identify how you are
meeting standards
The Humanistic Tradition - Correct Answer ✔✔ an approach that reflects concern for
the values, potential, well-being, and interests of human beings.
ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (400 B.C.-A.D. 200) - Correct Answer ✔✔ The ideal of
a well-rounded education was first clearly expressed in ancient Greece. The Greek
word paideia (from which we get our words pedagogy and encyclopedia) was used to
express this cultural ideal. The Greeks believed that free human beings should strive for
excellence in body, mind, and spirit.
The philosopher Plato (428-348 B.C.) - Correct Answer ✔✔ Plato's view that knowledge
of geometry and geometrical shapes was essential to understanding the order of the
cosmos would later play a role in the balls and blocks created for the first kindergartens.
Plato's pupil Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) - Correct Answer ✔✔ also wrote about the nature
and purpose of education.
Quintilian (A.D. 35-95) - Correct Answer ✔✔ was the foremost educator of his time. His
ideas about education were similar to those of the Greek educational philosophers.
The Ideas and Impact of Plato, Aristotle, and Quintilian - Correct Answer ✔✔ The Ideas
of Plato, Aristotle, Quintilian • Education should begin with the young child. • Human
, beings are essentially good. • Both boys and girls should be educated. • Development
of both mind and body are important. • Play is a valuable tool for learning. The Impact of
Plato, Aristotle, Quintilian on ECE • Later educational philosophers incorporated these
ideas in their work.
THE MIDDLE AGES - Correct Answer ✔✔ This period was characterized by a feudal
economic system—the granting of land in exchange for military service and by the
powerful influence of the church.
Martin Luther (1483-1546) - Correct Answer ✔✔ former monk whose biblical
scholarship caused him to break with the Catholic Church, began a movement of
religious reform known as the Protestant Reformation.
The Ideas and Impact of Martin Luther - Correct Answer ✔✔ • Education should be for
all children.
• Individual literacy is important.
• All aspects of development are important. The Impact of Martin Luther on ECE
• Later educational philosophers, particularly Comenius, incorporated these ideas in
their work.
was born and raised in what is now the Czech Republic and was a bishop in the
Protestant Moravian Church. - Correct Answer ✔✔ John Amos Comenius—The Father
of Early Childhood Education
He believed that schools should prepare children for life and for further education that
he envisaged as taking place in a series of ascending grades, where at each level the
child would be exposed to an ever-widening circle of knowledge. - Correct Answer ✔✔
Comenius
The Ideas and Impact of Comenius - Correct Answer ✔✔ • The period from birth to age
6 is of the highest importance for human development.
• Language is the foundation for later learning.
• Education begins with nurture at the "school of the mother's knee."
• Learning should be meaningful/personally relevant. The Impact of Comenius on ECE
• Use of picture books.
• Use of toys (puzzles, blocks) in education.
• Later educational philosophers, particularly Pestalozzi, incorporated these ideas.
John Locke—The Child Is a Blank Slate - Correct Answer ✔✔ academic, doctor,
philosopher, and political theorist. was an influential thinker in the period of the
Enlightenment.
theory, based on his medical knowledge, experience, and emerging philosophy of
human understanding, that the child comes into the world with a mind like a blank slate
(tabula rasa) - Correct Answer ✔✔ John Locke
ELABORATED CORRECT ANSWERS
Developmentally appropriate practice (or DAP) - Correct Answer ✔✔ s a perspective
within early childhood education whereby a teacher or child caregiver nurtures a child's
social/emotional, physical, and cognitive development by basing all practices and
decisions on
(1) theories of child development,
(2) individually identified strengths and needs of each child uncovered through authentic
assessment, and
(3) the child's cultural background as defined by his community, family history, and
family structure.
Intentional Teacher - Correct Answer ✔✔ According to Ann Epstein (2007), an
intentional teacher has a purpose behind every decision and skill in articulating the
reasons for actions.
Addressing Standards - Correct Answer ✔✔ • Know what standards are used in your
program and in your state • Design a curriculum that addresses early learning standards
• Assess what children have learned in terms of standards • Identify how you are
meeting standards
The Humanistic Tradition - Correct Answer ✔✔ an approach that reflects concern for
the values, potential, well-being, and interests of human beings.
ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (400 B.C.-A.D. 200) - Correct Answer ✔✔ The ideal of
a well-rounded education was first clearly expressed in ancient Greece. The Greek
word paideia (from which we get our words pedagogy and encyclopedia) was used to
express this cultural ideal. The Greeks believed that free human beings should strive for
excellence in body, mind, and spirit.
The philosopher Plato (428-348 B.C.) - Correct Answer ✔✔ Plato's view that knowledge
of geometry and geometrical shapes was essential to understanding the order of the
cosmos would later play a role in the balls and blocks created for the first kindergartens.
Plato's pupil Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) - Correct Answer ✔✔ also wrote about the nature
and purpose of education.
Quintilian (A.D. 35-95) - Correct Answer ✔✔ was the foremost educator of his time. His
ideas about education were similar to those of the Greek educational philosophers.
The Ideas and Impact of Plato, Aristotle, and Quintilian - Correct Answer ✔✔ The Ideas
of Plato, Aristotle, Quintilian • Education should begin with the young child. • Human
, beings are essentially good. • Both boys and girls should be educated. • Development
of both mind and body are important. • Play is a valuable tool for learning. The Impact of
Plato, Aristotle, Quintilian on ECE • Later educational philosophers incorporated these
ideas in their work.
THE MIDDLE AGES - Correct Answer ✔✔ This period was characterized by a feudal
economic system—the granting of land in exchange for military service and by the
powerful influence of the church.
Martin Luther (1483-1546) - Correct Answer ✔✔ former monk whose biblical
scholarship caused him to break with the Catholic Church, began a movement of
religious reform known as the Protestant Reformation.
The Ideas and Impact of Martin Luther - Correct Answer ✔✔ • Education should be for
all children.
• Individual literacy is important.
• All aspects of development are important. The Impact of Martin Luther on ECE
• Later educational philosophers, particularly Comenius, incorporated these ideas in
their work.
was born and raised in what is now the Czech Republic and was a bishop in the
Protestant Moravian Church. - Correct Answer ✔✔ John Amos Comenius—The Father
of Early Childhood Education
He believed that schools should prepare children for life and for further education that
he envisaged as taking place in a series of ascending grades, where at each level the
child would be exposed to an ever-widening circle of knowledge. - Correct Answer ✔✔
Comenius
The Ideas and Impact of Comenius - Correct Answer ✔✔ • The period from birth to age
6 is of the highest importance for human development.
• Language is the foundation for later learning.
• Education begins with nurture at the "school of the mother's knee."
• Learning should be meaningful/personally relevant. The Impact of Comenius on ECE
• Use of picture books.
• Use of toys (puzzles, blocks) in education.
• Later educational philosophers, particularly Pestalozzi, incorporated these ideas.
John Locke—The Child Is a Blank Slate - Correct Answer ✔✔ academic, doctor,
philosopher, and political theorist. was an influential thinker in the period of the
Enlightenment.
theory, based on his medical knowledge, experience, and emerging philosophy of
human understanding, that the child comes into the world with a mind like a blank slate
(tabula rasa) - Correct Answer ✔✔ John Locke
