Developmentally Appropriate Practice Quiz

How and when learning takes place, the choice of activities and they integrate with each other.

• Content

• Define Intentional Teaching.

• Product

• Process

Define intentional teaching.

• Intentional teaching refers to teachers allowing children to explore freely without any guidance or structure.

• Taking into consideration the meaningfulness and relevance of learning activities to all children from multicultural backgrounds

• Intentional teaching means that teachers act with specific goals in mind for the children in their care and set up the environment accordingly.

• Intentional teaching involves teachers ignoring children's interests to follow a strict curriculum.

A person who creates curriculum, plans, and provides for activities and materials is a ______.

• Counselor

• Professor

• Teacher

• Student

The total set of experiences & activities, both planned and unplanned, that support and guide children's learning is known as ______.

• Curriculum

• Education

• Instruction

• Assessment

Responsive to the child's rate of growth and learning styles; with respect for each individual child is known as ____.

• Process

• Individual appropriateness

• Motivational theories

• Intentionality

Based on the normal development of children within the age span, which of the following is the correct term?

• Age-appropriateness

• Normalization

• Duration

• Process

A curriculum that is already developed and made available to teachers for implementation is known as what?

• Content

• Teacher

• Process

• Preplanned Curriculum

What type of curriculum considers the various aspects of child development, individual differences, and the families and culture of the children in the program?

• Dynamic process

• Successful learning experiences

• A good curriculum

• Developmentally appropriate curriculum

Early childhood educators will interact with standards by...

• designing curriculum that addresses standards, identifying how they are meeting the standard, knowing what standards are used in the program and state.

• focusing only on play-based activities without any reference to educational standards.

• implementing a rigid curriculum that does not adapt to children's needs or interests.

• ignoring standards completely and allowing children to dictate the learning process.

What is the term for considering the meaningfulness and relevance of learning activities for children from multicultural backgrounds?

• Age-appropriateness

• Social and cultural appropriateness

• Developmentally appropriate practice

• Intentional teaching