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Early Childhood Education Essentials

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Collecting data to draw a conclusion that may or may not be true.






2. Unusually high ability in one or more areas - to the point where students require special educational services to help them meet their full potential.






3. Professional developement - knowing the latest educational practices - attend meetings on students - open communications with all involved - modifying and accommodating learning practices






4. Walks well and runs






5. Refers to postural reactions such as head balance - sitting - creeping - standing and walking.






6. A person's needs for security and protection from physical and emotional harm






7. Instructional concepts that integrate perspectives and experiences of numerous diverse groups and representing various cultures - ethnicities - ages - gender - and religions.






8. Practice of individualizing instructional methods - and possibly also individualizing specific content and instructional goals - to align with each student's existing knowledge - skills - and needs.






9. Children have newfound power at this stage as they have developed motor skills and become more and more engaged in social interaction with people around them. They now must learn to achieve a balance between eagerness for more adventure and more resp


10. Organizing and personally managing a cumulative series of work experiences to add to one's knowledge - motivation - perspectives - skills and job performance






11. Gives and estimate of the margin of error associated with a particular test score






12. (1908-1970) humanistic psychologist who proposed the hierarchy of needs - with self-actualization as the ultimate psychological need. Humans have a hierarchy of needs ranging from lower-level needs for survival and safety to higher-level needs for in






13. Stimulus that increases the likelihood that a particular response will follow.






14. Temporary support that is tailored to a learner's needs and abilities and aimed at helping the learner master the next task in a given learning process






15. A means used to learn and remember knowledge






16. Between testers






17. To feel bad about doing something wrong






18. A general belief that one is incapable of accomplishing tasks and has little or no control of the environment






19. No head lag - Sit with support - on Forearms






20. If not - they will fear commitment - feel isolated and unable to depend on anybody in the world.






21. Term learners process information through moving and doing. They learn through acting out scenes - putting on plays - moving to the beat - pacing out measurements on the sidewalk - and so on.






22. Fine motor beginning thumbfinger grasping - releases object at will - grasps for toys out of reach






23. 8 months






24. Problem-Based Learning - Zone of Proximal Development - Scaffolding - Inquiry/Discovery Learning






25. Three zeros in row... three fails in a row






26. To help children learn how to learn Importance of developmentally appropriate education Individuals construct their own understandings Value of play






27. AKA observational learning or modeling; component of social learning theory; expanded by Albert Bandura; states that people pay attention to a model and convert the learning into action






28. In classical conditioning - the eventual disappearance of a conditioned response as a result of the conditioned stimulus being repeatedly presented alone - In operant conditioning - the eventual disappearance of a response that is no longer being rei






29. Gross motor : 6 weeks Head level in ventral suspension






30. Casting -Puts block in cup






31. Sentences - names 4+ pictures






32. In adolesence) individual must demonstrate a pattern of behavior in which other people's rights are violated - norms are ignored or rules are broken. Aggression to people & animals - destruction of property deceitfulness or theft - serious violation






33. Personal dictionaries - Identify key words in stories - Listening to oral reading - Oral story retelling - Predict/confirm events in a story - Labeling - Copying - Fill-in blanks - Drawing as a means of written expression






34. Refers to the Americans With Disabilities Act. The ADA applies to equal access to employment - public services - public accommodations - public transportation and telecommunications. ADA Refers to the Americans With Disabilities Act. The ADA applies






35. If not - children may develop a sense of guilt and may come to believe that it is wrong to be independent.


36. Behaviors and belief systems that members of a long-standing social group share and pass along to successive generations.






37. Learners approach a task as a single integrated project.






38. The process of observing and imitating a specific behavior






39. Disability characterized by significantly below-average general intelligence and deficits in practical and social skills.






40. 2 years






41. Inquiry - discovery - cooperative - pair-share - jigsaw - STAD - teams - games - collaborative learning - concept models - discussion models - laboratories - project-based learning - simulations






42. Variability in abilities and characteristics (intelligence - personality - etc.) among students at a particular age and within any group.






43. Ability to modify and adjust behaviors to accomplish new tasks successfully; involves many different mental processes and may vary in nature depending on one's culture.






44. May 17 - 1954 US Supreme Court announced its decision that seperate educational facilities are unequal (The Little Rock Nine)






45. Social and language becomes bored when left alone - begins to show memory - squeals and vocalizations change with mood






46. 2-4 cube tower - Straight scribbles






47. Total number of items that are passed or correct on a test






48. If this crisis is not successfully resolved - the person will remain self-centered and experience stagnation later in life.






49. A context within which a students more basic needs (such as sleep - safety - and love) are met and the student is cognitively ready for developmentally appropriate problem-solving and learning.






50. Teeth - eyelids develop week 8 about an inch long; starts being called a fetus; looks like a tiny baby; everything it needs it pretty-much has; responds to touch; coordinated muscular/nervous system week 9 fingers can grasp week 11 about 2 inches lon