Question text Every fall before the school year begins a kindergarten teacher creates a daily schedule for her class. The best rationale for this practice is that children a. require repeated prompting and close monitoring to stay focused. b. need predictability to allow them to feel secure and be productive. c. come from different types of families with different routines in the home. d. learn most effectively from activities that are teacher directed.
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d. learn most effectively from activities that are teacher directed.
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Field 004: Early Childhood Education
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Objective 0001
Child Development and Learning (Standard 1)
1. Which of the following actions by an early childhood teacher would likely be most effective in fostering the moral development of young children?
involving the children in creating specific behavior rules for each area of the school and classroom
helping the children understand how their actions may affect others and consistently modeling caring and equity
establishing a set of clear behavior rules at the beginning of the year and applying consequences without exception
awarding a prize each Friday to the child who has been most cooperative during the course of the week
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Objective 0001
Child Development and Learning (Standard 1)
2. Which of the following scenarios in a kindergarten class would best support Lev Vygotsky's social constructivist theory of learning?
Two children at the games table work on identical puzzles independently without interacting.
One child watches another child dump out a set of puzzle pieces and arrange them by size.
Two children at the table-toy area work side by side on different puzzles.
One child watches another child rotate a puzzle piece to fit a space and then tries out the same strategy.
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Objective 0001
Child Development and Learning (Standard 1)
3. A four-year-old child at the sand table is trying to fill a container with sand using a measuring cup. However, the child's attempts result in more sand spilling on the floor than filling the container. Which of the following statements by the teacher would most likely prompt the child to engage in problem solving in this situation?
"I'm going to watch you fill the container step by step. You tell me what happens at each step."
"I wonder if you'd be more successful if you tried to fill a wide-mouth container."
"Now I see what's happening. You're pouring the sand before the cup is above the container."
"Perhaps it would work better to use the container to scoop up the sand."
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