Early Childhood Exam
DAPS - ✔✔ correct answer - Developmentally appropriate practices for children from birth to 8 years
- Created by National Association for the Education of Young Children
Definition of developmentally appropriate practices - ✔✔ correct answer - Age appropriate
- Individual appropriate
- Play - child initiated (what they want to do), child directed, teacher supported
DAP rationale - ✔✔ correct answer Children who experience high quality, stable DAP childcare have
more complex play, secure attachments to adults, score higher on thinking and language
development tests, predictor of academic success and are better adjusted to school
How DAPS applies to high quality early childhood programs, how this knowledge about children
helps teachers plan curriculum, assess student progress and adapt curriculum to fit the needs of the
students - ✔✔ correct answer
Children who experience high quality, stable DAP childcare... - ✔✔ correct answer - More complex
play
- Secure attachments to adults
- Score higher on thinking and language development tests
- Predictor of academic success
- Better adjusted to school
What helps us define high quality early childhood programs/education? - ✔✔ correct answer
Classroom activities
need to be age appropriate and individual appropriate.
A caring community of learners... - ✔✔ correct answer - Contributes to well being of others
- Consistent positive relationships with a limited number of adults and children
- ZPD (zone of proximal development) = operate in the edge of their developing capacities
- Protects child's psychological safety
- Orderly environment and routines provides structure
,Early Childhood Exam
What curriculum qualities should be imbedded in a high quality early childhood classroom? - ✔✔
correct answer - Learning should be sequential and in a developmentally appropriate/relatively
orderly sequence that provides teachers with a framework and structure of a learning environment
- Cognitive, social, emotional, physical
- Meets individual needs
- Interactive
- Activities and materials are relevant and concrete
- Meet a wide range of abilities
- Provides a variety of activities and materials
- Teacher is facilitator
- Multicultural and nonsexist experiences
- Balance rest with activity
- Outdoor experiences are a must
Describe the adult-child interactions within a high quality early childhood classroom - ✔✔ correct
answer - Primary focus should be to build trust with caregivers, a positive learning environment and
social development
- Respond promptly and appropriately
- Variety in communication
- Needs to support, be near, and encourage
- Aware of stress
- Build self esteem
- Build self control
- Strive for child's independence
Relations between home and childcare - ✔✔ correct answer - Teacher needs to initiate contact
- Teacher shares knowledge, insights, and resources
- Seamless vertical and horizontal communication
Developmental evaluation of children - ✔✔ correct answer - Multifaceted
- Used to plan curriculum for individuals
- Expectations based on standardized info re: age, gender, SES
, Early Childhood Exam
- Get schools ready for kids!
When children are in high quality early childhood education they are able to perform more complex
play, have secure attachment to adults, scores higher on academic and language tests - ✔✔ correct
answer
Early childhood professionals should... - ✔✔ correct answer - Keep current on professional literature
- Attend professional development meetings
- Observe children
- Perform innovative and challenging teaching and learning strategies
- Have a positive and caring classroom community
Common beliefs about good educational practice - ✔✔ correct answer - All children are capable of
learning
- Everyone needs to learn to read and write
- Children learn best using all their senses
- Zone of Proximal Development
- Learning should be meaningful and interesting
- Social interactions are necessary
- Teachers must show respect for children
What are the Current Issues in Early Childhood Education? - ✔✔ correct answer - Family life;
poverty/associated with young birth mothers; divorce; growing up w/o fathers, the importance of
father/child interactions and involvement in activities, single mother, teenage pregnancy
- Dropout rates
- Advanced curriculum
- Overcrowding in the classrooms
- Bullying - learned behavior
- Nutrition
Definitions of "Family" - ✔✔ correct answer - Particular household "groupings" that occur in all
human societies.
DAPS - ✔✔ correct answer - Developmentally appropriate practices for children from birth to 8 years
- Created by National Association for the Education of Young Children
Definition of developmentally appropriate practices - ✔✔ correct answer - Age appropriate
- Individual appropriate
- Play - child initiated (what they want to do), child directed, teacher supported
DAP rationale - ✔✔ correct answer Children who experience high quality, stable DAP childcare have
more complex play, secure attachments to adults, score higher on thinking and language
development tests, predictor of academic success and are better adjusted to school
How DAPS applies to high quality early childhood programs, how this knowledge about children
helps teachers plan curriculum, assess student progress and adapt curriculum to fit the needs of the
students - ✔✔ correct answer
Children who experience high quality, stable DAP childcare... - ✔✔ correct answer - More complex
play
- Secure attachments to adults
- Score higher on thinking and language development tests
- Predictor of academic success
- Better adjusted to school
What helps us define high quality early childhood programs/education? - ✔✔ correct answer
Classroom activities
need to be age appropriate and individual appropriate.
A caring community of learners... - ✔✔ correct answer - Contributes to well being of others
- Consistent positive relationships with a limited number of adults and children
- ZPD (zone of proximal development) = operate in the edge of their developing capacities
- Protects child's psychological safety
- Orderly environment and routines provides structure
,Early Childhood Exam
What curriculum qualities should be imbedded in a high quality early childhood classroom? - ✔✔
correct answer - Learning should be sequential and in a developmentally appropriate/relatively
orderly sequence that provides teachers with a framework and structure of a learning environment
- Cognitive, social, emotional, physical
- Meets individual needs
- Interactive
- Activities and materials are relevant and concrete
- Meet a wide range of abilities
- Provides a variety of activities and materials
- Teacher is facilitator
- Multicultural and nonsexist experiences
- Balance rest with activity
- Outdoor experiences are a must
Describe the adult-child interactions within a high quality early childhood classroom - ✔✔ correct
answer - Primary focus should be to build trust with caregivers, a positive learning environment and
social development
- Respond promptly and appropriately
- Variety in communication
- Needs to support, be near, and encourage
- Aware of stress
- Build self esteem
- Build self control
- Strive for child's independence
Relations between home and childcare - ✔✔ correct answer - Teacher needs to initiate contact
- Teacher shares knowledge, insights, and resources
- Seamless vertical and horizontal communication
Developmental evaluation of children - ✔✔ correct answer - Multifaceted
- Used to plan curriculum for individuals
- Expectations based on standardized info re: age, gender, SES
, Early Childhood Exam
- Get schools ready for kids!
When children are in high quality early childhood education they are able to perform more complex
play, have secure attachment to adults, scores higher on academic and language tests - ✔✔ correct
answer
Early childhood professionals should... - ✔✔ correct answer - Keep current on professional literature
- Attend professional development meetings
- Observe children
- Perform innovative and challenging teaching and learning strategies
- Have a positive and caring classroom community
Common beliefs about good educational practice - ✔✔ correct answer - All children are capable of
learning
- Everyone needs to learn to read and write
- Children learn best using all their senses
- Zone of Proximal Development
- Learning should be meaningful and interesting
- Social interactions are necessary
- Teachers must show respect for children
What are the Current Issues in Early Childhood Education? - ✔✔ correct answer - Family life;
poverty/associated with young birth mothers; divorce; growing up w/o fathers, the importance of
father/child interactions and involvement in activities, single mother, teenage pregnancy
- Dropout rates
- Advanced curriculum
- Overcrowding in the classrooms
- Bullying - learned behavior
- Nutrition
Definitions of "Family" - ✔✔ correct answer - Particular household "groupings" that occur in all
human societies.
