Deck 8: Creating a Caring Community of Learners: Guiding Young Children

Question 1

List the elements of a caring community and discuss why it is important for a teacher to create a caring community of learners in the classroom.

Answer 1

See sections in Caring Community of Learners: The Teaching Pyramid Model

Question 2

According to Strain and Hammeter,what can teachers do so that they become more comfortable with disturbing behavior?

A)Remove the child from the class so that the teacher can be more effective with the other children
B)Report the family to social services since the parents have not been involved with trying to solve the child's problem
C)Focus on small successes and avoid blaming parents or other uncontrollable events
D)Stop looking at why the child is misbehaving and just intervene by providing consequences for the misbehavior

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Outline a daily schedule that can be used so that children can do their best and that prevents behavior problems.Give the rationale of the schedule you provided.

Answer 3

See section Plan the Schedule

Question 4

What are the changes from one activity to another called such as when the children clean-up the learning centers and get ready for lunch?

A)Transition
B)Schedule
C)Routine
D)Lesson Plan

Question 5

Which of following is one strategy that can be used with boys to increase the likelihood of their success in the classroom?

A)Discuss during circle time the effects of their behavior on the whole group
B)Place them in time-out as a punishment
C)Allow boys to have increased indoor and outdoor large-motor and whole-body experiences
D)Use the threat of the consequence but allow them to play on if they are being active

Question 6

Which of the following is not an appropriate strategy for preventing or intervening bulling?

A)Providing warm and involved relationships with children
B)Model positive use of power and problem solving
C)Closely monitor and supervise
D)Ignore the situation and allow the children to work out their own problems even if they ask for help

Question 7

When a teacher says to a child,"Let's go over here to dig in the sand",when two children want to dig in the same area,what strategy is the teacher using to support positive behavior in the classroom?

A)Ignoring
B)Redirection
C)Encouragement
D)Social Skill Development

Question 8

The textbook outlined steps in applying the Teaching Pyramid to biting.Summarize these three different levels.

Question 9

What is the term used for a classroom where children and adults engage in warm,positive relationships;treat each other with respect;and learn from and with each other?

A)Inclusive Classroom
B)An Early Childhood Program
C)A Caring Community of Learners
D)Social-Emotional Curriculum Classroom

Question 10

If a child hits another child because the other child took a toy away from him and the teacher recognizes that the hitting was because the child has limited language,then that teacher would probably use which term to describe the hitting behavior?

A)Functional Behavior
B)Mistaken Behavior
C)Inappropriate Behavior
D)Appropriate Behavior

Question 11

What has the teacher set out to accomplish when a teacher provides activities in the classroom that enables the child to feel successful and provide the child with the ability to feel that they can accomplish what they set out to do in the classroom?

A)Allowing the child to acquire a new sense of efficacy
B)Building the child's cognitive skills
C)Allowing the child to feel failure if they do not accomplish the task and learn by this mistake within a secure environment
D)Helping the child to build vocabulary skills

Question 12

Provide a strategy and an example for promoting emotional literacy.

Question 13

Which strategy is being used when a teacher thoughtfully manages the time in the classroom?

A)Providing a stop watch to move the children to the next activity in a timely manner
B)Ignoring the clock and allowing the children to play
C)Planning the schedule to influence the children's behavior
D)Having the children wait until everyone is ready to move to the next activity so the teacher is in full control of the transition

Question 14

Which emotional literacy strategy is a teacher using when he says "I know you are disappointed that it is time to clean-up the blocks.You were having so much fun"?

A)Labeling the child's feelings
B)Modeling appropriate behavior
C)Promoting social competency
D)Inclusion

Question 15

According to the textbook,What is any behavior that interferes with children's learning,development,and success at play;is harmful to the child,or adults;or put the a child at high-risk for later social problems or school failure?

A)Delayed Cognitive Skills
B)A Challenging Behavior
C)Social Skills
D)Cultural Responses

Question 16

What is the theory described by Bowlby and Ainsworth that looked at how children's ability to learn was depended on their developing trusting relationships with caregivers?

A)Social-Emotional Development Theory
B)Attachment Theory
C)Bowly-Ainsworthworth theory on Emotional Regulation
D)Self-Regulation Theory

Question 17

Give an example of how the ABC's in a Functional Assessment can be used to reduce a challenging behavior

Question 18

What is a systematically planned and implemented set of actions designed to alter the course of a child's development used when a child demonstrates challenging behaviors?

A)An Individualized Education Plan
B)Functional Assessment
C)Challenging Behavior Plan
D)Individualized Intervention

Question 19

What is the name of the teaching model that is used to support children's social and emotional development and focuses on relationships rather than "fixing" the child?

A)Time-Out
B)Teaching Pyramid
C)Functional Assessment
D)Individualized Education Plan

Question 20

What type of attachment might a child exhibit in a family where the mother might have been depressed and unwilling or unable to provide consistent,sensitive or reasonable care?

A)Secure Attachment
B)Separation Attachment
C)Unresponsive Attachment
D)Insecure Attachment