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DCF School-age 72 appropriate practice
Questions
Using __________ play strategies is an excellent way to increase children's enthusiasm and motivation for learning. - Correct Answer
✔️ ✔️ cooperative
___________ for school-age children should provide challenging but achievable objectives, reinforce concepts taught in school, and be interesting and exciting to children. - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️
Curriculum
Games and activities for school-age children: - Correct Answer ✔️
✔️ spelling bee, word searches, crossword puzzles, reading challenges, dice games, quiz or trivia, educational software games.
Describe a safe learning environment - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ exits clearly marked and free of clutter, no blindspots, allow foot traffic to flow easily.
The arrangement of your room, including ____________ centers, placement of furniture, and allowance for smooth foot traffic, must be designed to facilitate learning activities. - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️
learning
The ________ environment for school-age children must be safe, clean and organized in order to provide the best opportunity for learning. - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ learning
When selecting _________, it is important to consider the different uses and functions that it will have in the learning environment. - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ furniture
___________ should be attached to the walls to ensure that they cannot fall over and injure a child. - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️
Bookshelves
Do not feel ________ to adhere to a strict schedule. Flexibility is the key to creating a relaxed environment in which children are allowed time to accomplish their goals. - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ preessure
__________ between quiet and physical activities allows children to work off excess energy, which results in an increased ability to focus during quiet activities. - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Alternating
The daily schedule should have a mix of quiet activities and opportunities for what? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Physical exercise
Is is acceptable to be flexible with daily routine? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Yes, when possible.
__________children need appropriate toys and activities that offer challenging, but achievable, goals that require the use of their newly developing cognitive ability. - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ School-age
The _______ is very enjoyable place for children, but it is also a potentially dangerous one. You must maintain constant supervision at
all times in order to prevent accidental injuries. - Correct Answer ✔️
✔️ playground
Challenging to their cognitive & physical abilities: - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Magnetic toys, science kits, Engineering/construction kits, Computers with appropriate software, puzzle games, carpentry kits
Identify the positive milestones that school-age children are developing. - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Learning about and experiencing empathy, developing awareness and self-control, feelings of sorrow, generosity to people in need, express concern.
_______ are experiencing a variety of increasingly positive milestones in their development during the school-age years. Model appropriate behavior. - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Children
Role modeling and specific examples may __________ a child to exhibit appropriate behaviors. - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ encourage
policy for bullying in your program. - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️
Bullying
Identify some ways to create positive interactions between everyone in the learning environment: - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Be warm and friendly and caring, get to know children, learn their likes and dislikes, provide accommodations for special needs.
The _________ community is built upon a positive attitude, knowledge of each child in care and the inclusion of all children. - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ classroom
________ children to spend time with each other builds confidence, self-esteem and a sense of belonging. - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️
Encouraging
Dr. David P. Weikart based this approach to active learning on the theories of who? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Piaget
The basic focus of this approach is that children learn through what type of involvement with people, materials, events, and ideas? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Active
Communications with families: - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ activities learned, behavior, mood, homework details, eating habits, upcoming events, reminders
_________ with parents is essential for creating a positive community atmosphere in your learning environment. - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️
Communication
_________ an appreciation for diverse cultures encourages respect and decreases discrimination. - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Creating
When designing educational play________ for school-age children, caregivers should take into account the developing social and cognitive skills of the children in their care. - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️
experiences
Developmental Domains: Social and Emotional - Correct Answer ✔️
✔️ Child begins to show respect and empathy other people.
Trust vs. Mistrust - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ A lack of trust can result in poor emotional stability.
Initiative vs. Guilt - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Children who are not allowed to pursue their natural curiosity will be prone to feel guilt for their actions.
Industry vs. Inferiority - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ When children experience success they attain a sense of adequacy and pride.
Autonomy VS Shame and Doubt - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ When autonomy is allowed a person can become comfortable with his/her choices.
Down Syndrome is caused by the presence of all or part of an extra what chromosome? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ 21st
When can Down syndrome be diagnosed? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️
During pregnancy or after birth
Is the effect that Down syndrome will have on a child predictable? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ No
According to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke website, "Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a range of complex ___________ disorders, characterized by social _______, communication difficulties, and restricted, __________, and stereotyped patterns of behavior." - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️
Neurodevelopment, impairment, repetitive
There is no cure for autism; children diagnosed with ASD receive treatment through ____________ and __________. - Correct Answer
✔️ ✔️ Medication and therapy
Developmental alerts - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Not growing or gaining weight over the course of the year. Unable to learn alphabet.
What are two things this section says children are seeking in the world around them? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Meaning and Relevance
Children begin to learn the purpose and function of newly acquired knowledge by participating in learning experiences that help them build connections between what two things? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Idea and Concept
It is important to be observant of the skill levels of the children in your care and ensure that learning opportunities always provide a level of what for the individual child? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Challenge
Creating _________ opportunities for learning ensures that children stay motivated and enthusiastic. - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ exciting
As a caregiver, it is essential to be familiar with the __________ and curriculum that children are experiencing in school in order to reinforce those concepts in your learning environment. - Correct Answer ✔️
✔️ concepts
It is essential to inspire enthusiasm for _________ in school-age children in order to maximize their potential for learning. - Correct
Answer ✔️ ✔️ learning
Remember to keep children __________ in learning activities. - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ interested
Jean Piaget defines four stages cognitive development. The first two are sensorimotor and preoperational. What are the last two? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Concrete operational and Formal operational
Solitary play - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ playing alone
Parallel play - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ playing beside other children, but not interacting with them.
Associative play - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ children play together with materials & some talking (3-5yrs)
