EPECE Chapter 1-6 Quiz

These three culture groups also played significant roles in the history of ECE, although their contributions are not well documented:

African Americans, Native Americans, Latinx

Why has there been a movement to increase standards, accountability and quality of early childhood instruction?

As more children are moving into the education system, there needs to be enough teachers in order to support the high quality learning the country has set for itself. Teachers are required to obtain more clearances and certifications in order to protect the quality of early childhood instruction that is being provided to young children across the country

This refers to age-related change that results from an interaction between biological maturation and physical and/ or social experience; occurs as children grow, adapt and change in response to various experiences:

Brain development

Name 5 types of Early Childhood Settings

The five types of Early Childhood Settings are Head Start/Early Head Start, School, Child Care Centers, Family Child Care Homes, and Preschool

A three-tiered framework intended to prevent learning delays in primary grades from becoming learning disabilities is called:

Response to Intervention (RTI)

Explicit and implicit values, beliefs, and patterns from generation to generation; customs, rituals, ways of interacting and communicating, and expectations for behaviors, roles, and relationships that are shared by members of a groups is:

culture

Teaching that is attuned to children's ages, experience, abilities, and interests, and that helps the attain challenging and achievable goals is known as:

developmentally appropriate practices.

_______________________ ________________________ is creating multiple paths so that children of different abilities, interests, or learning needs experience equally appropriate ways to achieve important learning goals.

differentiated instruction

Knowing Children + Knowing How to Teach + Knowing What to Teach =

effective practices

The shared characteristics and experiences of a group of people, such as nationality, race, history, religion and language is:

ethnicity

What are the 5 key principles to keep in mind with How Culture Functions:

1. Culture is dynamic 2. Everyone belongs to one or more cultural groups. 3. Culture is defined in terms of differences among other cultures. 4. Culture, ethnicity, language are aspects that influence another's beliefs. 5. Differences within cultural groups may be greater indifference than other cultural groups.

This movement grew out of a social welfare effort for low-income families, focused on the need to support working parents and became associated with physical care rather than education:

Child Care movement

Name a Risk factor that affects children's outcomes:

Child abuse is a risk factor that affects a child's outcome.

CCSS stands for:___________________________________________________

Common Core State Standards

Learning theory derived from the work of Jean Piaget; assumes that children actively build their knowledge from first hand experiences in stimulating environments, known as:

Constructivism

What is Early Childhood Education?

Early Child Education serves children from birth through 4th grade. It's purpose is to give young children the tools they need in order to be ready for later schooling. Not only do they need to possess these tools, they need to understand how to use them.

Early education in the United States was strongly influenced by ______________________ Ideas. (geographic location)

European

Gender Differences: Name one way that boys and girls differ in development ( physical, cognitive or social) according to the chapter:

Girls reach developmental milestones quicker than boys. Boys are most likely to be be miscarried or die during birth than girls.

What is the federally funded, national program that promotes school readiness by enhancing the social and cognitive development of children ages 3,4, & 5 through providing educational, health, nutritional, social, and other health services to the nation's poorest children and families?

Head Start is a federally funded program that serves children ages 3, 4, and 5. It provides them the nutritional, education, and health needs in order to keep the child healthy as far as physical development. It also encourages school readiness by enhancing the cognitive and social development of the children through social interaction, play, and activity.

Why is it valuable to studying history?

History can act as a precedent for ideas and concepts that were used in the past, but didn't work. While we don't want to get stuck in the past in a "this is the way we've always done it" mindset, it is important to look at the past contributions of major names in the field of early childhood education and how their ideas are adapting to new knowledge.

Name the 4 goals of Anti- Bias Education:

Identity, Diversity, Justice, Action

IEP stands for:

Individualized Education Plan

This movement in the United States was based directly on the work of Frobel and led by Elizabeth Peabody, Susan Blow and others who spread his ideas through teacher training:

Kindergarten Movement

Howard Gardner developed the Theory of Multiple Intelligences: Name two of the 8:

Mathematical and Logical intelligence

What is the world's largest organization of early childhood educators, whose mission is to act on behalf of the needs and interests of children from birth through age 8?

NAYEC

This movement, which grew out of the child study movement, eventually launched the wider field of ECE through the leadership of Patty Smith Hill, and Lucy Sprague Mitchell amongst others:

Nursery school movement.

What is the purpose of pre - kindergarten?

Pre-kindergarten also known as Pre-K has the purpose of preparing young children for school readiness. It is supposed to help them build social skills along with the academic skills of reading, writing, and mathematics.

This movement, led by John Dewey - discussed reforming schools - defining what school is, what is curriculum, what teaching should be.... Et al

Progressive movement.

Content previously taught in a higher grade in school being expected to be learned in an earlier grade is called:

Push-down curriculum

_________________ is associated with a person's biology and is determined by who their parents are, whereas culture is learned.

Race

Individual differences come from Nature - Biology or Nurture - Environment. What is the theory that says that BOTH have an influence on each other:

The transactional theory of development

Moravian College connection: Which influencer on American ECE has a Moravian connection? Who is it and what did he/she believe / what was their contribution?

This was John Amos Comenius. He believed that students should be educated in their native language. He created his own school based on his beliefs

" The child with special needs" is an example of

children with disabilities

What is the FIRST step for teachers to do in order to become culturally competent?

have an awareness of their own cultural perspectives

_________________ _____________ have a purpose for everything that they do, are thoughtful and prepared, and can explain their decisions and actions to other teachers, administrators, and/ or parents

intentional teachers

This is a change in knowledge or skill that results from experience or instruction:

learning

Name a Resilience Factor that impacts a child's ability to overcome:

positive relationship to parent, guardian, or another present adult (teacher)