Deck 10: Working With Families to Support Self-Esteem

Question 1

What are some of the ways to teach anti-bias behaviors?

Answer 1

Model anti-bias behaviors. Become aware of privilege and who has the opportunities and power in society. Expose children to books and experiences of people like and unlike themselves. Point out stereotypes. Make it clear that bias is unacceptable. Appeal to children's sense of fairness and teach them that all people must be treated with equal respect. Make it clear that bias is unacceptable.

Question 2

What is the term used for supporting and helping a child who is facing a challenge, which is also a means of boosting self-esteem?

A) Rescuing
B) Reality
C) Scaffolding
D) Praise

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Which of the following is not suggested as a way to promote self-esteem in young children?

A) Give children opportunities to experience success
B) Allow children to experience failure
C) Praise everything children do
D) Give children honest feedback

Answer 3

C

Question 4

If a person has low self-esteem, how can it be changed?

A) With deception of loved ones
B) With lots of praise
C) When the person decides to change perceptions
D) By shifting dimensions

Question 5

Which of the following best describes an anti-bias curriculum?

A) Teaches children to be blind to racial and cultural differences
B) Teaches children to respond positively and appropriately to differences
C) Avoids discussions of injustice because children are too young to understand
D) Does not include people with disabilities

Question 6

Self-esteem is best defined by which of the following statements?

A) It is a valuing process and ongoing self-appraisal which encompasses self-image and self concept
B) It means ignoring the minuses and only acknowledging the pluses
C) It means always feeling positive
D) Refers to fulfilling ones individual potential

Question 7

In the dimensions of self-esteem, which word refers to feeling like you are being good, according to your own standards?

A) Power
B) Virtue
C) Significance
D) Worth

Question 8

What is the difference between discriminating on the basis of skin color and recognizing differences in skin color?

Question 9

According to the research of Carol Dweck, fixed mindset refers to what?

A) Children who worry about mistakes and failures
B) Children who view mistakes and failures as a path to learning
C) Children who avoid peers
D) Children who like to fix things

Question 10

When are children likely to develop high self-esteem?

A) When they discover they are powerless in the world
B) When they can see themselves regarded in a positive light by those around them
C) When someone else does everything for them
D) When they face critical attitudes

Question 11

How can adults support children to develop a growth mindset?

A) Rescue children from problems
B) Help children fix things
C) Focus on children's effort
D) Tell children that they are losers if they fail

Question 12

What is failure?

A) It is a good feedback device
B) It is always to be avoided because it harms self-esteem
C) It is something adults should protect children from
D) It is something that gives the child a negative self-image

Question 13

Which of the following is true about self-esteem?

A) It is culturally based
B) It is the same across all cultures
C) It only relates to children seeing themselves as individuals
D) It is not as important as the self-image of the child

Question 14

What is the basis of the significance dimension of self-esteem?

A) The individual's academic ability
B) A feeling of being loved and cared about
C) How important the person is on the power dimension
D) A child's competence in a number of areas

Question 15

Adults can promote self-esteem by doing which of the following?

A) Praising everything a child does
B) Make a child feel bad about him/herself
C) Protect a child from risk taking
D) Create a challenging environment where children have opportunities to experience success

Question 16

Scaffolding is a term that is used in early childhood development. Which of the following is true about scaffolding?

A) Vygotsky believed that only adults should assist performance
B) The term relates to Vygotsky's notion of assisted performance
C) Adults should avoid scaffolding and let children solve problems on their own to increase their self-esteem
D) The term was coined by a child playing in the block corner

Question 17

What may be the affect of using labels to describe children?

A) Can help adults know how to be responsive to that child
B) Can create a self-fulfilling prophecy
C) Can help children trust in themselves
D) Is known as the cereal method

Question 18

What is meant by the term "life script?"

Question 19

Which of the following is not a dimension of self-esteem?

A) Significance
B) Power
C) Virtue
D) Patience

Question 20

What develops when a child is given a realistic appraisal of pluses and minuses and the child decides that he/she has more positive attributes than negative ones?

A) High self-image
B) High self-actualization
C) High self-concept
D) High self-esteem

Question 21

What are some strategies for changing negative messages to positive ones?