WorksheetsUnderstanding Developmentally Appropriate Practices Quiz
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 26mins
What are the three principle components associated with Developmentally Appropriate Practice?
Age appropriateness, individual appropriateness, and social/cultural appropriateness
Physical development, social and emotional development, and language and literacy
Safety, health, and nutrition
Curiosity, creativity, and critical thinking
What is the key point about quality child care?
Quality child care lays the foundation for a lifetime of success
High-quality care means children are getting the solid foundation they need to be healthy, happy, and successful throughout life
Quality child care focuses on children birth through eight years old and is made up of three principle components: age appropriateness, individual appropriateness, and social/cultural appropriateness
A lack of quality care has negative effects on children’s school readiness and development
What is the role of a caregiver in planning learning experiences for children?
Caregivers should be passive in planning learning experiences for children
Caregivers should be intentional about planning learning experiences that are purposeful, challenging, and achievable
Caregivers should leave the planning of learning experiences to the children
Caregivers should only plan learning experiences that are easy and not challenging
What factors affect a child's development?
A child's age, temperament, personality, and family history are all factors that affect their development
Only a child's age and temperament affect their development
Only a child's personality and family history affect their development
None of the above factors affect a child's development
When a child simply watches others play and just looks around and does not want to get involved, this is called
Solitary Play
Onlooker Play
Dramatic Play
Unoccupied Play
Preschoolers need friendships which can help to develop their social/emotional cognitive, language, creative and physical developments.
True
False
When children share materials or play with each other and they have a goal and/or purpose. this type of play is
Solitary Play
Associative Group Play
Parallel Play
Cooperative Play
Play develops
teacher student relations
social, emotional, physical, cognitive development
Piaget's theories
Toddlers struggle to "Do it by themselves", even if it is hard to accomplish. This is an example of
Separateness
Guidance
Autonomy
What are typical behaviors from toddlers?
speaking, taste, holding, seeing
crawling, tasting, emotions, feeling
climbing, eating, communication, banging
What is an example of complex play?
A student on a swing and teacher pushing them
A student riding a tricycle alone
A student who has a shopping list and a shopping cart
What is an example of High Mobility?
Running, Sitting, Walking
Running, Climbing, Tricycle Riding
Book Reading, Group Activities, Climbing
Teachers should ask good challenging questions to have children think more deeply?
Appropriate
Inappropriate
Teachers should ask good challenging questions to have children think more deeply?
Appropriate
Inappropriate
What is an example of using fine motor skills?
A student writing with a crayon
A student riding a tricycle alone
A student with shopping list and working with a shopping cart
What is an example of using fine motor skills?
A student writing with a crayon
A student riding a tricycle alone
A student with shopping list and working with a shopping cart
What is an example of gross motor skills?
Singing, Writing, Sitting
Running,Climbing, Tricycle Riding
Book Reading, Group Activities, Climbing
Separation anxiety is .........
when an ECE child shows distress
A classroom that treats children in a separate manner then adults
Associative Group Play
Parallel Play
According to NAYEC Developmentally Appropriate Practice means........
Good work ethics, revised planning, observation and thoughtful decisions
A framework, an approach, a philosophy, age appropriate decisions
Both answers
Neither answer
Empathy is ...........
Being able to understand someone else's feelings and perspective
Being able to sympathize
Being able to read a student's thoughts
When a child plays alone without others this is........
Onlooker play
Parallel play
Solitary play
What are the four types of development?
Social, development, emotional, physical
Emotional, cognitive, spiritual, rational
cognitive, social, physical, emotional
When a child has the inability to consider another person's point of view. This is called .....
Facilitator
Egocentric
Didactic
What are characteristics of a quality preschool?
Developmentally appropriate assessment procedures
Staff training and administrative support
Developmentally appropriate curriculum and low ratios
All of the above
Which of the following is an example of accommodations for children with special needs?
Having a written schedule of the day's activities
Lowering or raising the legs on a sensory table
A separate place for the child to eat away from the group
Keep child inside when the class goes to the playground
Which of the following milestones from the physical domain apply to young children, ages 3-5?
Rolling over back to front
Jumping, hopping, running
Bike riding, leaping, balancing with efficiency
Exploring, sorting, and classifying
Which of the following describes Abraham Maslow's theory?
8 conflicts of emotional development
4 stages of cognitive development
Scaffolding
Hierarchy of needs
Which theorist focused on a child's connections between people and culture?
Piaget
Maslow
Erikson
Vygotsky
Erikson's stage is successful when caregiver is supportive and nurturing to infant's needs?
Trust vs. mistrust
Initiative vs. guilt
Autonomy vs. doubt/shame
Industry vs. inferiority
Which of Erikson's stages occurs during a child's VPK year?
Trust vs. mistrust
Initiative vs. guilt
Autonomy vs doubt/shame
Industry vs. inferiority
