Practices for Young Children (3-5 Years)
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1. What is the goal of a developmentally appropriate practice (DAP) for young
children?
A. To ensure activities are right for the age and stage of each child.
B. To ensure children with special needs are given extra care.
c. To ensure children learn the alphabet by the time they are four years old.
D. To ensure toys are sanitized with bleach solution weekly. - Answer>>-A. To ensure
activities are right for the age and stage of each child.
2. Research has shown that children participate in quality preschools:
a. Have lower rates of graduation
b. Are less likely to go on welfare
c. Have lower rates of literacy
d. Earn less money - Answer>>-B. Are less likely to go on welfare
3. Creative curriculum, found by Diane Trister Dodge in 1988:
a. Supports the caregiver making choices for young children
b. Relates to Maslow's hierarchy of needs
c. Believes the children work best individually
d. Describes how to plan a classroom based on the ten interest areas - Answer>>-d.
Describes how to plan a classroom based on the ten interest areas
4. Salley just turned three. She is very friendly and happy girl. She likes making toys.
She makes a cake from sand and water. According to Jean Piaget's Cognitive
Development Theory, which of the following best describes Sally's stage?
a. sensorimotor
b. concrete operational
c. preoperational
d. formal operations - Answer>>-c. preoperational
5. What are some ways to develop self-control in children?
a. teach them to say ''I am sorry'' to a child they have wronged
b. model your own self-control around other children and adults
, c. If Juan hits Ed, teach Ed to protect himself with his arms
d. Teach children that it is OK for children with special needs to cut in life. After all, it
takes them longer to go through the line - Answer>>-b. model your own self-control
around other children and adults
6. Which of the following is critical in creating a learning environment for young
children?
a. daily variety
b. room arrangement
c. monochromatic color schemes
d. new toys - Answer>>-b. room arrangement
7. Which of the following is a developmentally appropriate health and safety practice
for the preschool child?
a. Teach older children to care for younger children
b. Provide different types of medicines for all kind of illnesses
c. Practice hang-washing, diapering, toy sanitation, in the childcare facility
d. Inform children about communicable diseases and let them read possible resources
about it - Answer>>-c. Practice hang-washing, diapering, toy sanitation, in the childcare
facility
8. What is the focus of the High/Scope Approach
a. creative curriculum
b. silent curriculum
c. active learning
d. adult learning - Answer>>-c. active learning
9. The High/Scope approach to the curriculum believes that all children including those
with special needs or coming from a variety of cultures, need the following to be
active learners:
a. Materials and incentives
b. Choice and language
c. Adult support
d. Answers a & b
e. Answers a, b, & c - Answer>>-e. Answers a, b, & c
10. What is the long-term effect of self-control and self-regulation?
a. Better wages earned
b. More violent tendencies
c. Increased rate of child abuse
d. Better relationships in the future - Answer>>-d. Better relationships in the future