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Early Childhood Education Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Common traits/skills that helps you relate to others.
Interpersonal Skills
Running record
Gross motor
Probational License
2. Summary of a persons qualification - skills - and job experiences.
ognitive/ intellectual development
Adult to Child Ratio
Direct learning experience
Resume
3. Topic or concept around which class activities are planned
Malnutrition
Dawdling
Theme
Telegraphic speech
4. A person from another country who lives with a family and provides child care
Au pair
Caregiver
Nutrition
Gardner
5. Type of guidance technique used to change child's behavior by offering another choice of an activity.
Multiple Intelligences
Checklist
Redirect
Freud
6. Believed interaction with peers and adults help children learn through social and cultural experiences.
Vygotsky
Developmentally Appropriate Activities
emotional abuse
Preschooler
7. A job in which a person works for little or no pay while gaining work experience and receiving supervision.
Social development
Transitions/Closures
Self-help Skills
Internship
8. A child's apprehension associated with separation from a parent or other caregiver
Erikson
Separation anxiety
Object permanence
Au pair
9. The number of adults who must be in the classroom with the children
Self-help Skills
Reflex
Piaget
Adult to Child Ratio
10. Developing from the center outward
Direct Guidance
Synapses
Mission Statement
Proximodistal principle
11. The Mississippi State Department of Health - responsible for granting licence to operate a child care center
Developmental milestones
Resume
Accreditation
Licensing Agency
12. A form used to describe ones abilities and qualifications when applying for a job.
Motor sequence
Sensorimotor stage
Active listening
Application
13. Sharing resources with others in the same field of study.
Networking
Department of Human Services
rogram Goals
MECA
14. Recording your opinions rather than facts as to why you believe a behavior is occurring.
Subjective observation
Theme
Participation charts
Language comprehension
15. Developed to meet the developmental needs of children from low-income homes. Also dental - medical - and mental health services are provided for children
Active Listing Skills
Networking
Head Start Programs
Cover Letter
16. Type of abuse affecting a childs self-concept through words or actions
Prompt
Running record
Erikson
emotional abuse
17. Used by the teacher to keep track of a variety of children's behavior also known as participation chart.
Director
Rote
ITERS
Frequency count
18. Allow children to go to their homes after school and receive calls from caregivers to be sure there are no problems
Freud
Cephalocaudal principal
Checking-in services
Resume
19. How a child understands language
Resume
School-age child care
Language comprehension
Body Language
20. Equipment - activities and guidance matched to the developmental characteristics and needs of each age group.
NAEYC
Sexual Abuse
Erikson
Developmentally Appropriate Activities
21. Children learn through four stages of development one being sensorimotor.
Piaget
Entrepreneurs
Indirect learning experience
Guidance
22. Communication of one's ideas - desires - or intentions to others - usually through speech - printed words or signing
Development
Expressive language
Maturation
Accreditation
23. A learning experience that is spur of the moment - could be teachable moments -unplanned events.
Asthma
Guidance
Indirect learning experience
Erikson
24. Written plan showing specific actions and activities used to meet planned goals
Developmental milestones
CDA
Ignore
Lesson plan
25. A person that provides care in the childs home and may receive food and housing in addition to wages
Interview
Pre-operational stage
Nanny
Erikson
26. Wasting time or moving slowly for example a child eating very slowly.
ognitive/ intellectual development
Suggest
Caregiver
Dawdling
27. 'theory of Multiple Intelligence emphasizes that there are different kinds of intelligence used by the human brain - one being Bodily/Kinesthetic intellegence.'
Gardner
Direct Guidance
Flow chart/Web
Code of Ethics
28. Child birth to 12 months
Rating scales
Infant
ITERS
Proximodistal principle
29. Projected spending plan based on expected income and expenses.
Budget
Telegraphic speech
Entry-level Job
Immunization
30. A letter of when introducing yourself when sending a resume.
Nutrition
Maslow
Cover Letter
Epilepsy
31. An agency responsible for providing public assistance programs to the populations they serve.
Department of Human Services
Prompt
Laboratory Schools
Maturation
32. Growth that occurs over a period of time
Telegraphic speech
Head Start Programs
ITERS
Development
33. A five star rating system developed for licensed early childhood facilities.
Emotional development
Erikson
MS Child Care Quality Step Systems
Temporary License
34. An experience planned by the teacher with a specific goal in mind.
Toddler
NAEYC
Direct learning experience
Early Childhood
35. A list of characteristics or skills considered normal for children in a certain age group.
raffic pattern
Developmental milestones
Pica
Freud
36. Mississippi Early Childhood Association: is the largest state organization for early childhood professionals.
Staff Development
MECA
Expressive language
Usable Space
37. 'the process of memorizing using routine or repetition - often without full attention or comprehension.'
Direct learning experience
Guidance
Rote
Development
38. Process of gradually learning to base one's behavior on personal beliefs of right or wrong
Moral Development
Auditory signals
Erikson
Emotional development
39. Are located at secondary or postsecondary institutions - used to train future teachers.
Flow chart/Web
Laboratory Schools
Job Shadowing
Infant
40. Extreme allergic reaction
Freud
Indirect learning experience
Anaphylactic Shock
Vygotsky
41. A tool used to determine mastery over a period of time.
Nutrition
Sexual Abuse
Ongoing assessment
Reflex
42. How children attain the ability to share and appropriately express their feelings.
Emotional development
Licensing Agency
Gross motor
Preschooler
43. The inability for the body to control the level of sugar in the blood
Internship
Early Childhood
Emotional development
Diabetes
44. Is the action involving the large muscles of the body - as in walking - running or swimming
Temperament
Gross motor
Licensure
Epilepsy
45. Any person designated to act as the director - having all responsibility and authority of a director - during the directors short-term absence and shall not retain sole director authority for more than 24 total hours during a calendar week.-at least
Theme
Synapses
Director Designee
Piaget
46. Moving from one activity to another
Freud
Transitions/Closures
Accreditation
Malnutrition
47. 'Permission granted by an agency of government to an individual to engage in a given profession or occupation - once an applicant has met qualifications standards.'
Lesson plan
Licensure
Rote
Regular License
48. Type of guidance technique that can be used when a child's misbehavior is not harmful.
Self-help Skills
Ignore
Preschooler
Cephalocaudal principal
49. Schools provide children with freedom within limits by a structured approach. Stress the theory that children learn best by being active and doing.
ognitive/ intellectual development
Regular License
Telegraphic speech
Montessori Schools
50. An injection of antigens given to a person to provide immunity from a certain disease
Active listening
hild Care Center
Immunization
Neglect