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Early Childhood Education Vocab
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1. Is a stage in human development from birth to 5 years of age.
Pica
Early Childhood
Direct learning experience
Licensure
2. Believed interaction with peers and adults help children learn through social and cultural experiences.
Subjective observation
Communicable Diseases
Usable Space
Vygotsky
3. A person that provides care in the childs home and may receive food and housing in addition to wages
Early Childhood
Communicable Diseases
Active listening
Nanny
4. A list of characteristics or skills considered normal for children in a certain age group.
Developmental milestones
Sexual Abuse
Maturation
Suggest
5. Sharing resources with others in the same field of study.
Networking
MECA
Reflex
Interview
6. Common traits/skills that helps you relate to others.
Auditory signals
Interpersonal Skills
Anaphylactic Shock
ognitive/ intellectual development
7. 'the process of memorizing using routine or repetition - often without full attention or comprehension.'
Rote
Praise
Erikson
Sexual Abuse
8. The Mississippi State Department of Health - responsible for granting licence to operate a child care center
Cephalocaudal principal
Frequency count
Licensing Agency
Vygotsky
9. A letter of when introducing yourself when sending a resume.
Developmental milestones
Cover Letter
Anaphylactic Shock
Service learning
10. Allows the child care facility to operate pending the issuance of a regular license.
Participation charts
Temporary License
MS Child Care Quality Step Systems
Masters Degree
11. A worker with an education beyond high school that is trained for a certain field of work.
emotional abuse
Paraprofessional
Laboratory Schools
Nanny
12. A normal - uncontrollable reaction of your body to something that you feel - see - or experience.
Anecdotal records
Piaget
Proximodistal principle
Reflex
13. Collection of concepts - experiences and materials designed to meet developmental needs for a group of children
Code of Ethics
Piaget
Curriculum
Caregiver
14. Issued when all conditions and requirements for licensure have been met. The licensure period may not last more than a year.
Regular License
Direct learning experience
Montessori Schools
Sexual Abuse
15. Developed the psychoanalytical theory. Anecdotal records - rating scales - checklist
ECERS
Freud
Block plan
Sensorimotor stage
16. How children develop skills such as concentration - and the ability to learn - understand - recognize and reason.
Developmental milestones
Maslow
ECERS
ognitive/ intellectual development
17. Developed to meet the developmental needs of children from low-income homes. Also dental - medical - and mental health services are provided for children
Entry-level Job
Head Start Programs
Reflex
Anecdotal records
18. Child care is provided in a private home.
Fine motor
Anaphylactic Shock
Indirect guidance
Family child care
19. Summary of a persons qualification - skills - and job experiences.
Gardner
Service learning
Resume
Prompt
20. Keeping sensitive personal information of others private.
Confidentiality
Redirect
Routine
Maslow
21. Schools provide children with freedom within limits by a structured approach. Stress the theory that children learn best by being active and doing.
Synapses
Kindergartens
Montessori Schools
rogram Goals
22. A person who is willing to learn new information and acquire new skills throughout his or her life.
Au pair
Praise
Lifelong learner
Routine
23. Actions used by an adult to help children develop self control
Bachelor's Degree
Guidance
Pica
Resume
24. 'theory of Multiple Intelligence emphasizes that there are different kinds of intelligence used by the human brain - one being Bodily/Kinesthetic intellegence.'
Gardner
Service Staff
Ongoing assessment
Application
25. How information moves from one neuron to another
Synapses
Caregiver
Participation charts
Running record
26. School program that offers students the opportunity for on-the-job learning.
Cephalocaudal principal
Block plan
Paraprofessional
Work-based learning
27. Any individual - designated by the operator - who has met minimum state requirements and who has on-site responsibility for the operation of a childcare facility. This person may or may not be the operator
Curriculum
Portfolios
Director
I Messages
28. The inability for the body to control the level of sugar in the blood
Active listening
Pica
Diabetes
Anecdotal records
29. Using outside factors such as room arrangement to promote desirable behavior in children
Initial assessment
Indirect guidance
Developmentally Appropriate Activities
Motor sequence
30. School program in which students volunteer in their community.
Service learning
Articulation
Motor sequence
Temperament
31. Activities done on a daily basis such tolieting - eating - and dressing.
Indirect guidance
Portfolios
Synapses
Routine
32. 'Howard Gardner identifies seven different human intelligences that allow us to engage in learning and help us make sense of the world.'
Piaget
Multiple Intelligences
Body Language
ECERS
33. The written plan giving an overall view - vital to planning a balanced curriculum.
MS Child Care Quality Step Systems
Block plan
emotional abuse
Head Start Programs
34. Behaviors in which one can care for themselves in the areas of feeding - dressing - bathing - and toileting
CDA
Director Designee
School-age child care
Self-help Skills
35. Is the action involving the large muscles of the body - as in walking - running or swimming
Gross motor
Malnutrition
Entrepreneurs
Director Designee
36. An experience planned by the teacher with a specific goal in mind.
Direct learning experience
Language comprehension
Redirect
Gardner
37. How children interact with others and the world around them.
Social development
Auditory signals
School-age child care
Anaphylactic Shock
38. 4 stages - studied his children's mental growth - sensorimotor.
Piaget
Entry-level Job
Diversity
Director
39. Observing someone in his or her job.
Diabetes
Infant
Job Shadowing
Entrepreneurs
40. A position for beginners in a field. It requires limited education and training.
Prompt
Entry-level Job
Participation charts
hild Care Center
41. An oath or set of moral principles - determined by a professional organization for its members.
Toddler
Social development
Motor sequence
Code of Ethics
42. Using sound to signal the transition from one activity to another
Auditory signals
Direct Guidance
Licensure
Checklist
43. The number of adults who must be in the classroom with the children
Social development
Anecdotal records
Adult to Child Ratio
Neglect
44. An observation that records the facts without using your personal opinions.
Epilepsy
Rote
Service Staff
Objective observations
45. A person who provides direct care - supervision - and guidance to children in a child care facility - regardless of title or occupation.
Maturation
Isolation Room
Masters Degree
Caregiver
46. Type of guidance technique used to change child's behavior by offering another choice of an activity.
Fine motor
Running record
Praise
Redirect
47. Form of child abuse in which the child may be deprived of proper diet - medical care - shelter and/or clothing
Subjective observation
Gardner
Telegraphic speech
Neglect
48. A evaluation process by which a person meets a potential employer face to face.
Portfolios
Adult to Child Ratio
Maturation
Interview
49. An assessment/observation tool used to determine a childs level of performance.
Rating scales
Communicable Diseases
Piaget
Aptitude
50. When someone demonstrates how to appropriately complete a task - action or behavior.
Masters Degree
Model
Au pair
Transitions/Closures