What is necessary for the child to acquire fundamental motor skills?
A) Efficient, smooth motion is achieved through play in the neighborhoods without much attention.
B) Maturation, instruction or learning by observation, and opportunities for practice are necessary.
C) Qualitative differences in the ways children move exist among middle-income children and Head Start children.
D) Children acquire motor skills as an expected outcome from maturation.
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Which of the following skills are covered in the CCSS English Language Arts?
A) Leaving spaces between words, capitalization, punctuation, and methods of instruction
B) Reading, writing, speaking and listening, language, and media and technology
C) Phonological awareness, phonemic awareness, alphabetic awareness, and expert tutoring
D) Decoding, independent reading, balanced literacy, and writing workshop
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In response to the teacher's request to tell her how many red blocks there are in a set of 40 colored blocks, Sam must use which of the following?
A) Subitizing
B) Conservation
C) One-to-one correspondence
D) Cardinality
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When are children who live with overly critical or controlling adults particularly vulnerable?
A) Just as they enter kindergarten
B) When they have easy temperaments
C) During years 2 and 3 when they are exercising increased autonomy
D) During elementary school when involved in real task completion
E) During the first year of life when they are developing a sense of trust
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The best time for teachers to schedule outside time is:
a. as soon as children arrive.
b. immediately after morning snack or breakfast.
c. after learning center time, right before lunch.
d. There is no best time for outside time; it depends on the needs of the children, staff availability, and access to common spaces.
Question 2...
Which of the following is the most suitable theme for preschool age children?
a. Predicting the weather
b. Electricity
c. Plants in the classroom
d. Gravity
Question 3...
Using essential theme criteria, which would probably be the most appropriate theme for a group of suburban preschool- age children living in Michigan?
a. Pockets
b. Santa Claus
c. Vehicles
d. The Dessert
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Which of the following portfolios is passed from teacher to teacher at the end of the year?
A) Individual portfolio
B) Teacher portfolio
C) Showcase portfolio
D) Institutional portfolio
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In order to obtain good reliability in scoring comprehension when taking an oral reading sample, which of the following would be appropriate?
A) Structure individual, different questions for each child.
B) Ask closed-ended questions to cut down on ambiguity.
C) Ask another teacher to listen in.
D) Structure several questions and ask the same questions of each child tested.
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Which of the following would be required in participation charts?
A) Dated work samples
B) Involving other adults in the classroom
C) Event sampling
D) Time sampling
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Mrs. Ramsey plans a whole group time focused on preschoolers taking turns and waiting for one another to speak. She plans to use a storybook to prompt conversation. Which of the following strategies would be most successful in addressing these goals?
A) Divide the large group into smaller groups each led by an adult who talks with 3 or 4 children about the story.
B) Give each child his or her own copy of the book to so they have something to refer to during the discussion that follows.
C) Have a small group of children demonstrate how to take turns and listen, while others in the group observe.
D) Ask children to raise their hands before they speak and keep the conversation focused on the story only.
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If the students are directed to determine themselves a question to pursue via inquiry, then this would be an example of:
A) guided inquiry.
B) open inquiry.
C) confirmatory inquiry.
D) structured inquiry.
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