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Understanding childrens worlds

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the focus of your assignment?

a)

Sustained shared thinking

b)

Child centred learning

c)

Communication language and literacy

d)

Physical development

2.

What theories are you using to help you understand the world of the child?

a)

Behaviourism

b)

Socio cultural theory

c)

Post structuralism

d)

Constructivism

3.

What theorists are you using to help you understand the world of the child?

a)

Bronfenbrenner

Piaget

Vygotsky

b)

Bandura

Piaget

Thornton

c)

Williams

Jones

Hall

d)

Athey

Donaldson

Piaget

4.

Athey developed Piagets ideas concerning schema, her research involved over 500 detailed observations and helps us think about......

a)

Schema as repeated behaviours

b)

a way to address behaviour management

c)

a way to look at behaviour that demonstrates a childs thinking

d)

a way to look at childrens thinking and interests by observing behaviour

5.

Who critiqued Piagets ideas about egocentrism by suggesting children can decentre when things make human sense to them?

a)

Donaldson

b)

Athey

c)

Jones

d)

Vygotsky

6.

What is the role of the adult in child centred learning?

a)

To tell the child what needs to be done

b)

To watch wait and wonder

c)

To carefully observe so you can think about the childs interests

d)

To use understanding gained through observation to enrich the learning environment

7.

How would you describe accommodation?

a)

A way to explain the stages of learning put forward by Piaget

b)

How Piaget explained children adapt their existing understanding to take on new information

c)

A place to live

d)

How Piaget explained children are egocentric

8.

Donaldson suggested the importance of....

a)

Context and relationships

b)

Embedded learning

c)

Testing children

d)

Behaviour management

9.

Observations are important in supporting child centred learning because they...

a)

Help show your manager that you are a good practitioner

b)

Help you develop a supportive environment based on a childs interests

c)

Help you in understanding what a child may be thinking

d)

A quick and easy way to make links to the curriculum

10.

I am doing well on this module because

a)

I have shared my observation with my tutor

b)

I am reading material from the reading list

c)

I am asking questions

d)

I am doing my module glossary