Deck 5: Organizing the Encouraging Classroom

Question 1

Which of the following best describes authentic assessment?

A)childhood events as reported to the teacher by the family
B)life experiences the child describes to the teacher
C)assessment based on the actual observation of the child's day-to-day performance
D)assessment results on the individual child as reported by the state's official testing program

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Which of the following is NOT one of the most important considerations when planning the environment within the guidance classroom?

A)teacher planning space
B)traffic patterns
C)noise levels
D)accommodations for the active nature of children

Answer 2

A

Question 3

How are developmentally appropriate practice and the encouraging classroom related? contribute to the encouraging classroom?

Answer 3

Developmentally appropriate practice is rigorous teaching that engages each child in an interactive learning process geared to multiple learning domains and intelligences.Strategies include learning centers,integrated curriculum,authentic assessment,and guidance.Developmentally inappropriate practice leads to stress in children,often with higher levels of mistaken behaviors.
Developmentally inappropriate practice-which tends to be teacher centered,restrictively academic,and overly focused on test scores and student compliance-leads to school anxiety in many children.Developmentally appropriate practice engages each child in an interactive learning process geared to multiple learning domains and intelligences.Such instructional strategies as learning centers,integrated curriculum,thematic instruction,authentic (observation-based)assessment,child-directed activity (play),and guidance are indicators that teaching practices are developmentally appropriate.
Children in DAP classrooms become fully engaged in learning activities.The active nature of young children,within the classroom and outdoors,is fully accommodated;the outdoors is seen as an extension of the learning environment.The inclusive nature of instruction and group processes leads to affirmation of the worth and potential of each child.

Question 4

Who developed the thematic-based instruction model that enables the primary grades to incorporate learning centers?

A)Montessori and Reggio Emillo
B)Myers and Maurer
C)Gestwicki and Ryan
D)Piaget and Maslow

Question 5

Health studies confirm that vigorous activity

A)that is competitive in nature consistently shows benefits for stress reduction
B)that is competitive shows strong positive impact on healthy development
C)that is noncompetitive increases student anxiety in a competitive world
D)that is noncompetitive assists in stress reduction,hormone balance,and enhancement of the body's major systems

Question 6

Pressures from No Child Left Behind (NCLB)have

A)created more authentic assessment in early childhood classrooms.
B)made developmentally responsive teaching more difficult for many teachers.
C)identified critical areas of unresponsive education
D)significantly increased the quality of early childhood education

Question 7

Which of the following is a possible roadblock preventing family involvement in school?

A)family members not finding time for involvement
B)children's objections to family involvement
C)administrator's objections
D)board members' objections to family

Question 8

Who argued that Developmentally Appropriate Practice (DAP)meant the shifting away from the study of isolated academic subjects toward the study of integrated curriculum?

A)Piaget and Maslow
B)Myers and Maurer
C)Bredekamp,Copple,and Brewer
D)Montessori and Vygotsky

Question 9

In elementary schools today,the main use for Developmentally Appropriate Practice (DAP)is to do which of the following?

A)teach parents how to handle their children's mistaken behaviors in better ways
B)train new teachers
C)train new administrators
D)supplement and modify the traditional academic program

Question 10

How does the teacher encourage family members to become engaged with the program?

Question 11

Which of the following is a possible consideration for the various names given to the time children may spend at centers?

A)work time
B)playtime
C)free time
D)all of these answers

Question 12

Which of the following does NOT involve family members in the preschool/primary grade program?

A)assisting children with homework
B)administrative program planning
C)attending parent-teacher meetings
D)sitting on policy boards

Question 13

Which of the following terms applies to the inappropriate pressures "officials" place on schools?

A)performance-based instruction
B)political accountability
C)educational accountability
D)ethical conduct

Question 14

Which of the following regarding learning centers is manifest in guidance classrooms?

A)They are a distraction to teacher.
B)They are a distraction to the students.
C)They are the physical embodiment of developmentally appropriate practice.
D)Parents object to the use of the learning center in the guidance classroom.

Question 15

A roadblock to the engagement of families in early childhood programs may occur when

A)staff members are doubtful about the value of using family members as volunteers in the program.
B)success in involvement is gauged differently for different families
C)personal contact is made by early childhood teachers with family members
D)teachers gain critical insights into family-child interactions