Developmentally Appropriate Practices

What does DAP stand for?

• Dogs Around the Playground

• Developmental Assessment Practices

• Developing Awesome Playtim

• Developmentally Appropriate Practices

What is DAP based on?

• Age and Individual Appropriateness

• cognitive and physical abilities

• emotional maturity

• age and physical ability

Concrete learners learn through...?

• experience and reflection

• copying answers

• sitting still

• movement and actively doing

Lisa likes for her students to be active. She plans active games for them and provides opportunity for movement. What type of learning is she most likely using with her students?

• concrete learning

• developmental learning

• hands-on learning

• child-directed learning

In addition to being multicultural, what types of development should be encouraged through the learning activities a teacher plans?

• social/emotional

• physical

• language

• all of the types of learning

Maria Montessori began her educational model by teaching children to clean and take care of their basic hygeine. What type of learning is this?

• relevant

• real

• both relevant and real

• impractical

If a teacher sits and lectures to a class while the students take notes, is this active or passive learning?

• active

• passive

• neither

• both

A teacher wants to teach students about cause and effect. To help them understand, he has given them the assignment of making a device that shows the cause and effect of different actions. What type of learning is this?

• active

• passive

• active and passive

• neither active nor passive

All of the following are good ways to begin an open-ended question EXCEPT...

• What

• Why

• Describe

• Yes or No

The teacher chooses the activities for the centers, divides the children into groups, and sets a schedule for children to rotate through the groups. What type of learning is this?

• child-directed

• child-initiated

• teacher-directed

• relevant