EDU121 - Ch 10 Quiz Review

A developmentally appropriate practice (DAP) curriculum should

• relate to program goals.

• focus on holidays.

• reflect a political viewpoint.

• avoid children’s personal issues.

A project approach is too sophisticated for early childhood programs.

• True

• False

Active learning is an important concept of developmentally appropriate curriculum.

• True

• False

Culturally appropriate curriculum is the opposite of developmentally appropriate curriculum.

• True

• False

Curriculum and play are two distinctly separate issues and are not woven together in curriculum development.

• True

• False

Curriculum is not

• almost everything and anything that happens.

• a process for teachers to follow.

• a set of curriculum books for teachers to follow.

• always written in lesson plans.

Developmentally appropriate curriculum does not take into account

• community context.

• parents’ concerns.

• child development theory.

• the teacher’s age.

Developmentally appropriate curriculum ensures that all children learn specific content at the same time.

• True

• False

Integrated curriculum provides opportunities

• to bring in a parent volunteer for a cooking project.

• for children to learn the alphabet.

• for children of diverse abilities to learn from the same experience.

• for teachers to use direct-teaching methods.

Multicultural education

• focuses on one culture each year.

• emphasizes the food and holidays of a cultural group.

• is a new curriculum published by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC).

• reflects the plurality of the classroom.