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Early Childhood Education Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Training required for designated employees by MSDH annually to maintain licensure
Aptitude
Associate Degree
Professional
Staff Development
2. 4 stages - studied his children's mental growth - sensorimotor.
Piaget
Confidentiality
Curriculum
Frequency count
3. Child care is provided in a private home.
Freud
Family child care
Mission Statement
Redirect
4. A person who provides support services such as cooking - cleaning - or driving a vehicle - but is not a caregiver.
Anecdotal records
Internship
Confidentiality
Service Staff
5. 'the process of memorizing using routine or repetition - often without full attention or comprehension.'
Malnutrition
Multiple Intelligences
Checklist
Rote
6. An observation that records the facts without using your personal opinions.
Interview
Indirect guidance
Dawdling
Objective observations
7. A type of observation centering on a specific event in form of written notes
Participation charts
School-age child care
Anecdotal records
Objective observations
8. Using sound to signal the transition from one activity to another
Networking
Prompt
Auditory signals
Paraprofessional
9. A position for beginners in a field. It requires limited education and training.
Code of Ethics
Sensorimotor stage
Entry-level Job
Confidentiality
10. Developing from the center outward
Emotional development
Code of Ethics
Professional
Proximodistal principle
11. Statements of purpose reflecting the end result of curriculum.
Flow chart/Web
Gardner
rogram Goals
Synapses
12. Schools provide children with freedom within limits by a structured approach. Stress the theory that children learn best by being active and doing.
Resume
Laboratory Schools
Montessori Schools
Preschooler
13. A detailed account of behavior over a particular period of time.
Body Language
Application
Prompt
Running record
14. School program in which students volunteer in their community.
I Messages
Cover Letter
Budget
Service learning
15. A form used to describe ones abilities and qualifications when applying for a job.
Preschooler
Checklist
Initial assessment
Application
16. Growth of body to include height - weight -coordination and balance
Attire
Interview
Physical development
Nutrition
17. Behaviors in which one can care for themselves in the areas of feeding - dressing - bathing - and toileting
Asthma
Diabetes
Cover Letter
Self-help Skills
18. A collection that has examples of your best work.
Gardner
Portfolios
Budget
Parent Cooperatives
19. Moving from one activity to another
Networking
NAEYC
Transitions/Closures
Department of Human Services
20. When someone demonstrates how to appropriately complete a task - action or behavior.
Model
Erikson
Adult to Child Ratio
Caregiver
21. A person with a position that requires at least a degree from a four-year college or technical school in a particular area of study.
Family child care
hild Care Center
Indirect learning experience
Professional
22. Recording your opinions rather than facts as to why you believe a behavior is occurring.
Subjective observation
Ongoing assessment
Resume
Confidentiality
23. The way children move through the classroom.
Networking
Resume
Telegraphic speech
raffic pattern
24. To suggest - remind or assist.
Physical development
Interpersonal Skills
Vygotsky
Prompt
25. Five levels. Assumed human nature was good not bad - and we continually need to fulfill needs. Pyramid
Budget
Maslow
Maturation
Application
26. Influencing children's thoughts or actions.
Application
Freud
Articulation
Persuade
27. Used by the teacher to keep track of a variety of children's behavior also known as participation chart.
Gardner
Frequency count
Licensing Agency
Early Childhood
28. Nonverbal actions expressed usually unconsciously by an individual including but not limited to facial expressions or gestures.
Ongoing assessment
Body Language
Staff Development
MS Child Care Quality Step Systems
29. State ones feelings about a problem or behavior without placing blame.
Portfolios
School-age child care
Early Childhood
I Messages
30. An assessment/observation tool used to determine a childs level of performance.
Reflex
rogram Goals
MS Child Care Quality Step Systems
Rating scales
31. Guarantees a child's records may only be released to parent or guardian
Director Designee
Praise
Synapses
Privacy Law
32. Activities done on a daily basis such tolieting - eating - and dressing.
Routine
MECA
Piaget
Direct Guidance
33. Type of abuse affecting a childs self-concept through words or actions
Self-help Skills
emotional abuse
Preschooler
MS Child Care Quality Step Systems
34. Equipment - activities and guidance matched to the developmental characteristics and needs of each age group.
Internship
Moral Development
Developmentally Appropriate Activities
Mission Statement
35. A person from another country who lives with a family and provides child care
Social development
Caregiver
Au pair
Theme
36. (Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale) an evaluation used for learning activities for programs working with children 2 ½ years to 5 years. The subscales learning activity areas are: fine motor; art; music & movement; blocks; sand and water play;
Checklist
Freud
Piaget
ECERS
37. The manner of thinking - behaving - or reacting characteristic of a specific person
Freud
Curriculum
Persuade
Temperament
38. Type of guidance technique used to change child's behavior by offering another choice of an activity.
Redirect
Masters Degree
rogram Goals
Articulation
39. Topic or concept around which class activities are planned
Auditory signals
emotional abuse
Theme
Indirect learning experience
40. Mississippi Early Childhood Association: is the largest state organization for early childhood professionals.
Isolation Room
MECA
Telegraphic speech
Confidentiality
41. 'argued that when a childs actions have positive results - they will be repeated - continued negative results may end unwanted behavior'
Skinner
Epilepsy
Routine
MECA
42. Is the action involving the large muscles of the body - as in walking - running or swimming
Direct learning experience
Social development
Telegraphic speech
Gross motor
43. Observing someone in his or her job.
Auditory signals
Development
raffic pattern
Job Shadowing
44. Through psychosocial development personality goes through eight stages one being trust vs. mistrust
Erikson
Dawdling
Work-based learning
Expressive language
45. Diet needs for proper growth and development
Probational License
Nutrition
Service Staff
Separation anxiety
46. A job in which a person works for little or no pay while gaining work experience and receiving supervision.
Internship
Initial assessment
Anaphylactic Shock
Prompt
47. Sharing resources with others in the same field of study.
Service learning
Associate Degree
Gross motor
Networking
48. Actions such as spoken words or gestures that influence behavior.
Direct Guidance
Resume
Epilepsy
Piaget
49. Believed interaction with peers and adults help children learn through social and cultural experiences.
Communicable Diseases
hild Care Center
Vygotsky
Indirect guidance
50. Skills used to comprehend and repeat What is being said.
Theme
Physical abuse
Active Listing Skills
hild Care Center