Deck 7: Leadership Communication With the Group

Question 1

How do class meetings build the encouraging classroom?

Answer 1

Class meetings focus on involvement of each child to encourage reflection and sharing about experiences,needs,concerns,and triumphs.Anyone can talk,everyone takes turns and is honest,listens carefully,and is kind to those speaking.Class meetings help to maintain a sense of community,carry on the business of the class,and solve problems.This sense of community helps build and maintain the encouraging classroom.

Question 2

Use of which of the following is deemed MOST appropriate when encouraging young children?

A)stickers
B)personal encouragement
C)certificate of merit
D)yelling

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Why are guidelines,not rules,important in the encouraging classroom?

Answer 3

Rules have preset consequences,which are often punishment.Rules are not adaptable to varying situations and conditions and tend to be in negative terms.Because rules have predefined consequences,when a teacher makes an "exception," then their leadership roles come into question.Guidelines also set standards.They supportively educate children to standards of behavior and allow the teacher a range of choices thereby empowering them professionally.

Question 4

Which of the following is NOT something the teacher needs to know when sending notes home to parents?

A)Some parents will forget or misplace the note
B)Delivery rates of notes sent home are seldom 100%
C)Parents do not wish to be informed unless done so by phone
D)Some parents are nonreaders.

Question 5

A basic different between encouragement and praise is that

A)praise is a more effective tool for long-term changes in behavior
B)encouragement empowers the efforts of the child
C)encouragement gives approval to achievement
D)praise empowers the efforts of the child

Question 6

The teacher does not have to make any other points of recognition to encourage students once a public encouragement has been made.

A)The group receives clear feedback and knows that its efforts are appreciated.
B)The teacher has indirectly made known the cooperative students and the noncooperative ones.
C)The strength of public encouragement includes which of the following?
D)Parents of those students who have received a public encouragement from the teacher can be proud of their children.

Question 7

The use of class meetings in the classroom

A)work against the resolution of children's problems
B)should be avoided in favor of more conciliatory means of resolving student concerns.
C)supports the concepts of an encouraging classroom
D)are inappropriate with young children in early childhood settings

Question 8

One positive aspect of the use of guidelines is that

A)they allow teachers a range of choices
B)they empower teachers to be professional
C)they support children in making effective choices
D)all of the above

Question 9

Mistaken behavior is often the result of

A)a mismatch between the child and the education program
B)lack of effective disciplinary practices in the classroom
C)intentional behavior by a child to disrupt classroom routines
D)none of the above

Question 10

Which of the following is pointed at in the studies of Lawhon and Watson?

A)children who lack opportunity to have close personal relationships are more likely to experience long-term mental and physical health problems
B)children from very small families lack coping skills needed to succeed in life
C)schools need to be primarily responsible for the emotional stability of children
D)there is no need to overemphasize the need for close personal relationships in children

Question 11

Why is encouragement more appropriate than praise?

Question 12

Which of the following is a strategy to use when a entteacher wishes to use encouragement with all of the children in a class?

A)logical consequences of good behavior
B)encouraging guidelines
C)public encouragement
D)private encouragement

Question 13

Which of the following is NOT a strategy to use when teachers face squabbles among students who exclude those other than their friends from play?

A)use the teacher's leadership to structure small-group experiences that transcend usual social circles
B)use class meetings and curriculum to teach friendliness
C)establish a guidelines of friendliness
D)contact parent of students involved in the exclusionary tactics