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Early Childhood Education Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A natural talent or potential for learning a skill.
Aptitude
Attachment
Privacy Law
Adult to Child Ratio
2. Mississippi Early Childhood Association: is the largest state organization for early childhood professionals.
MS Child Care Quality Step Systems
MECA
Initial assessment
Gross motor
3. A type of observation centering on a specific event in form of written notes
Anecdotal records
Direct Guidance
Direct learning experience
Piaget
4. A list of characteristics or skills considered normal for children in a certain age group.
Ongoing assessment
hild Care Center
Developmental milestones
Indirect learning experience
5. Guarantees a child's records may only be released to parent or guardian
Privacy Law
Model
Caregiver
Skinner
6. A five star rating system developed for licensed early childhood facilities.
MS Child Care Quality Step Systems
Expressive language
Developmental milestones
Development
7. Theorist believed that experiences in childhood influence your entire life.
rogram Goals
Freud
Immunization
Mission Statement
8. Are located at secondary or postsecondary institutions - used to train future teachers.
Anaphylactic Shock
Temporary License
Laboratory Schools
Job Shadowing
9. The Child Development Associate National Credentialing Program provides performance-based training - assessment and credentialing for participants.
Work-based learning
Articulation
CDA
Mission Statement
10. A person who provides direct care - supervision - and guidance to children in a child care facility - regardless of title or occupation.
Erikson
Caregiver
Toddler
Theme
11. 4 stages - studied his children's mental growth - sensorimotor.
Regular License
Director
emotional abuse
Piaget
12. Differences among others.
Montessori Schools
Model
Prompt
Diversity
13. Is the action involving the large muscles of the body - as in walking - running or swimming
Routine
Running record
Gross motor
Indirect learning experience
14. A person from another country who lives with a family and provides child care
Model
Rote
Synapses
Au pair
15. To suggest - remind or assist.
Rote
School-age child care
Prompt
Development
16. Allow children to go to their homes after school and receive calls from caregivers to be sure there are no problems
Caregiver
Toddler
Checking-in services
NAEYC
17. Behaviors in which one can care for themselves in the areas of feeding - dressing - bathing - and toileting
Block plan
Self-help Skills
Director
Licensure
18. Is the action involving the small muscles of the hands - as in handwriting - stringing beads - cutting or Legos.
Fine motor
Direct Guidance
Articulation
Multiple Intelligences
19. Believed interaction with peers and adults help children learn through social and cultural experiences.
Vygotsky
Confidentiality
Rating scales
Masters Degree
20. Listening - then repeating what was said.
Active listening
Block plan
Attire
Vygotsky
21. Lack of proper diet causing improper development in children
ECERS
Gross motor
Separation anxiety
Malnutrition
22. Five levels. Assumed human nature was good not bad - and we continually need to fulfill needs. Pyramid
Maslow
Erikson
Direct Guidance
Block plan
23. School program in which students volunteer in their community.
Persuade
Regular License
Service learning
Objective observations
24. A tool used to determine what the children know before instruction begins
Initial assessment
Nutrition
Budget
CDA
25. The evaluation of a program that has been evaluated by an external body to meet certain standards of quality.
Active listening
Accreditation
Mission Statement
Lesson plan
26. A form used to describe ones abilities and qualifications when applying for a job.
Application
Piaget
Budget
Early Childhood
27. Workers who are self-employed or own their own business.
Entrepreneurs
Freud
Skinner
Early Childhood
28. A detailed account of behavior over a particular period of time.
Prompt
Running record
Preschooler
Kindergartens
29. Through psychosocial development personality goes through eight stages one being trust vs. mistrust
Erikson
hild Care Center
Objective observations
Ongoing assessment
30. A collection that has examples of your best work.
Portfolios
Multiple Intelligences
Regular License
MECA
31. A person who provides support services such as cooking - cleaning - or driving a vehicle - but is not a caregiver.
Montessori Schools
Temporary License
Service Staff
Lifelong learner
32. An experience planned by the teacher with a specific goal in mind.
Direct learning experience
Erikson
Rating scales
Initial assessment
33. Using outside factors such as room arrangement to promote desirable behavior in children
hild Care Center
Transitions/Closures
Emotional development
Indirect guidance
34. Growth of body to include height - weight -coordination and balance
Physical development
Neglect
Masters Degree
Checklist
35. 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.
Erikson
Developmentally Appropriate Activities
Indirect learning experience
Professional
36. A map that outlines major concepts and ideas related to a theme.
Articulation
Flow chart/Web
Physical development
Anecdotal records
37. Communication of one's ideas - desires - or intentions to others - usually through speech - printed words or signing
Work-based learning
Head Start Programs
Routine
Expressive language
38. Diet needs for proper growth and development
Nutrition
Lesson plan
Dawdling
Pre-operational stage
39. Actions used by an adult to help children develop self control
Rote
Fine motor
Indirect guidance
Guidance
40. The number of adults who must be in the classroom with the children
Communicable Diseases
Preschooler
Adult to Child Ratio
Frequency count
41. Order of new movements - which depends on brain and nerve development.
Motor sequence
Associate Degree
Praise
Epilepsy
42. Breathing disorder that may cause labored breathing - coughing and wheezing
Maslow
Asthma
Active listening
Regular License
43. The written plan giving an overall view - vital to planning a balanced curriculum.
Objective observations
ognitive/ intellectual development
Initial assessment
Block plan
44. 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
Emotional development
Checklist
Physical development
Director
45. Process of gradually learning to base one's behavior on personal beliefs of right or wrong
Professional
Moral Development
Sensorimotor stage
Application
46. Developing from the center outward
Pre-operational stage
Cephalocaudal principal
Proximodistal principle
Department of Human Services
47. Type of abuse affecting a childs self-concept through words or actions
Physical development
Model
Body Language
emotional abuse
48. 'argued that when a childs actions have positive results - they will be repeated - continued negative results may end unwanted behavior'
MECA
Skinner
Active listening
Nanny
49. A degree earned once courses of study has been earned or completed usually at the end of a two year period after high school.
Privacy Law
Licensure
Associate Degree
Model
50. Words arranged in an order that makes sense - and contains almost all nouns and verbs - usually two word phrases.
Work-based learning
Telegraphic speech
Director
Praise