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College Early Childhood Education
Which is the most effective approach in designing an environment for the four-year-old children in your program?
  1. Duplicate an environment that has proved to be successful in another program
  2. Observe the children in your classroom to understand their interests and developmental levels and use this information to design an environment
  3. Set up an environment with all the recommended learning centers and then eliminate any centers that are not used
  4. Duplicate the five-year-old classroom in your program so the children will be familiar with it when they transition to the next room
College Early Childhood Education
Inclusive curriculum is all but which one of the following?
  1. promotes inclusion of children with any and all disabilities
  2. does not include family influences on children’s behavior
  3. reflects an awareness of all areas of diversity
  4. means no one is left out
College Early Childhood Education
Which of the following statements accurately reflects what we know about attachment?
  1. Child care can negatively affect children’s attachment to their parents
  2. Children are typically attached to only one person, usually their mother
  3. Children can have attachment problems if they must detach and reattach to several different caregivers
  4. Attachment is primarily something that is stressed in Western cultures
College Early Childhood Education
Which of the following teacher statements is most aligned with developmentally appropriate practice?
  1. “Children are in my program for only half a day, therefore we do not have time for play. They can always play at home.”
  2. “I believe that if we want children to be prepared for elementary school we need to spend our time on academics.”
  3. “I want to make sure that children are prepared when they go to elementary school. Therefore I make sure that we complete worksheets each day and spend time lining up.”
  4. “I believe that it is important to have a variety of materials at different levels in my classroom to meet the needs of all the children.”
College Early Childhood Education
Scott is just beginning to learn the names for the letters of the alphabet. Which of the following would be an example of the teacher scaffolding his learning?
  1. The teacher requires Scott to spend 15 minutes a day working with letter flash cards.
  2. The teacher says the names of the letters as she writes down words that Scott dictates.
  3. The teacher tells Scott, “You need to learn all your letters and then you will be ready to read.”
  4. The teacher does not want to push Scott to learn letters before he is ready so she takes a “hands-off” approach.
College Early Childhood Education
Which of the following materials might be used to develop the pincer grasp?
  1. Eye droppers for a color mixing activity
  2. A spray bottle to water plants
  3. Nesting dolls to stack together
  4. Lids and jars to match
College Early Childhood Education
Which of the following statements accurately reflect what we know about children’s fine motor development?
  1. When children have messy writing, the majority of the time it is due to carelessness.
  2. Children will outgrow fine motor issues if they are given enough time.
  3. If a child is having difficulty controlling a pencil to write letters, it is important to give the child a lot of practice writing letters.
  4. Children who have fine motor difficulties need to have early intervention to prevent problems with school tasks.
Continuing Education Early Childhood Education

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A preschool teacher wishes to teach the concepts of first, middle, and last to a group of four-year-old children. The teacher's best strategy for introducing these concepts would be to:
  1. draw three familiar characters in a row and indicate which character is in which place.
  2. have the children take turns standing in a line and ask them to identify who is in which place.
  3. line up three stuffed animals and indicate which animal is in which place.
  4. show the children picture cards of sets of three objects and ask them to tell which object is in which place.
College Early Childhood Education
Tenille is sitting with a group of pre-school children at lunch time. Which of the following is an example of an open-ended question?
  1. Do you like apples or oranges better?
  2. What are the ways that apples and oranges are alike?
  3. What color are the beets?
  4. What do you say when you want Terrence to pass you the meatloaf?
Continuing Education Early Childhood Education

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Ben, a four-year-old in Mr. Dorato's pre-k class is making a tower out of wooden blocks when his classmate Maria accidentally bumps the tower, knocking it over. Ben yells at Maria and is about to hit her when Mr. Dorato intervenes. Which of the following is the most appropriate way for Mr. Dorato to communicate with Ben immediately following this incident?
  1. "If you act like that, the other children won't like you anymore."
  2. "Tell Maria you are sorry, then put away your blocks."
  3. "If you can't behave yourself, I may have to call your parents."
  4. "I know you are angry, but you may not hurt your classmates."
Continuing Education Early Childhood Education

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A pre-k teacher has been informed that many children in the school are out sick with colds or the flu. Which of the following preventive measures is the most appropriate action for the teacher to take in this situation?
  1. Require that parents keep home children who show even the slightest symptoms of a cold
  2. Increase the frequency with which children and staff engage in routine hand washing throughout the day.
  3. Teach children signs to watch out for in order to help them self-assess whether they have a fever.
  4. Ask that parents send in cold medicine so that children may be treated as symptoms occur.
College Early Childhood Education
Self-esteem has four dimensions listed. Which one does not belong in this list?
  1. Significance
  2. Power
  3. Virtue (morals)
  4. Competence
  5. Patience
College Early Childhood Education
Which of the following is true about self-esteem?
  1. It is culturally based
  2. It is the same across all cultures
  3. It only relates to children seeing themselves as individuals
  4. It is not as important as the self-image of the child.
College Early Childhood Education
For which of the following would a teacher want to use a small group?
  1. to help children practice a specific skill
  2. to introduce new ideas and materials
  3. to read stories
  4. to review the day’s events
College Early Childhood Education
Which of the following best describes an antibias curriculum?
  1. Teaches children to be blind to racial and cultural differences
  2. Teaches children to respond positively and appropriately to differences
  3. Avoids discussions of injustice because children are too young to understand
  4. Does not include people with disabilities
College Early Childhood Education
Which of the following best describes Susan Isaacs’s advice to parents about teaching
children healthy expressions of feelings?
  1. It believes that determination, obstinacy, and outbursts of temper are normal, and it takes patience to socialize children
  2. It is outdated in today’s society
  3. Children do not need patience; they need a strong hand to make them obedient
  4. Parents need to display when they are upset with a child for the child to understand how feelings can be hurt.
College Early Childhood Education
David is left-handed. Which statement most accurately reflects what we know about children who are left-handed?
  1. David is most likely left-handed due to his previous experiences.
  2. David needs to learn to use his right hand since he lives in a right-handed world.
  3. We must provide the proper tools such as left-handed scissors if we want the David to be successful.
  4. We need to help David learn to use right-handed scissors since this is what is typically available.
College Early Childhood Education
Julianna, a teacher of young toddlers, and Tessa, a toddler in her care, are playing with toy trucks. Which of the following statements made by Julianna would be an example of parallel talk?
  1. What color is your truck?
  2. I’m driving my blue truck around and around.
  3. Do you want the blue truck or the red truck?
  4. Today we are going to have pears for lunch.
Continuing Education Early Childhood Education

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Which of the following actions by a pre-k teacher best demonstrates an awareness of the importance of family systems?
  1. encouraging the children to take home their artwork and other productions to share with their families
  2. issuing an invitation to all families to visit the classroom at any time
  3. maintaining ongoing communication with families with respect to events and circumstances at home and at school
  4. beginning every school year with an instructional unit on families
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