Montessoris prepared environment implies that the teacher
a. is ready for the children each day by thinking through a curriculum and planning appropriate activities.
b. has purchased ready-made learning materials for young children.
c. follows a behavioral approach to early education.
d. has carefully considered the appropriate match between the childrens stages of development and the environment.
Question 2Which of the following persons established schools for young children and, through the power of personality and dedication, modeled how to work with young children?
a. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
b. Johann Pestalozzi
c. Friedrich Froebel
d. Maria Montessori
Question 3Which of the following persons was one of the first to recognize and promote the importance of play in young childrens development?
a. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
b. Johann Pestalozzi
c. Friedrich Froebel
d. Maria Montessori
Question 4
Who was influential in advocating that children experience specific periods during which they are particularly sensitive to absorbing certain learning?
a. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
b. Johann Pestalozzi
c. Friedrich Froebel
d. Maria Montessori
Question 5Which of the following ideas contributed to the formation of early childhood education during the twentieth century?
a. Childhood is a separate and important period of life in its own right.
b. Universal education is a way of promoting democracy and equalizing social inequity.
c. Earliest experiences lay the foundation of personality.
d. All of these answers.
Question 6Martin Luther, as one of the prominent reformers of sixteenth-century Germany, had an effect on children and how they were treated because he advocated
a. public education for all children.
b. that all children should be baptized.
c. that children be taken away from their parents so they would not be abused.
d. establishment of the kindergarten.
Question 7Interest in the care and education of children
a. did not really exist until the twentieth century.
b. was particularly noticeable during the Middle Ages.
c. was evident in ancient Greece.
d. was first seen in the 1960s with the founding of Head Start.
Question 8What will be an ideal response?
What will be an ideal response?
Question 9As an advocate for early childhood teachers, what would you propose as a solution to the low wages they received and why would you make this suggestion?
What will be an ideal response?