Reference no: EM133407181
Questions
1. Because children often don't know how to use or care for materials, teachers should.
a) Restrict the number of toys in a learning center so children won't destroy everything as once
b) Supervise carefully, staying close enough to children that immediate consequences can be implemented if needed
c) Have alternate lesson plans ready
d) Be prepared to demonstrate use and care to children
2. In blank activities, children determine the general direction of learning, teachers determine specific skills.
a) Guided discovery
b) Classroom meeting
c) Direct instruction
d) Student-centered
3. To enhance literacy in the block center, teacher may want to do all of the following except.
a) Take dictation or record oral descriptions children provide of what they have built
b) Encourage children to draw blueprints of the structures
c) Provide paper and writing implements in the block center so children can make their own signs to label their structures
d) Request that children work quietly
4. A teacher has decided to use learning centers in the kindergarten classroom. After noticing children collecting leaves on the playground, a leaf collection was gathered and placed on the science table, where it remained for three weeks with no one looking at it or discussing it. What did the teacher most likely do that contributed to children's lack of engagement with the materials?
a) the teacher failed to introduce the activity or to spend time engaged in exploration with children
b) the teacher forgot to consider what children were interested in
c) the teacher actively engaged the students
d) the teacher failed to use appropriate materials
5. Which of the following are pitfalls that teachers experience in presenting large group experiences?
a) Keeping whole group instruction under a half hour
b) Introducing activities late in the group-time routine
c) Beginning group time even before all of the children have arrived
d) Keeping the time of day in which group time is conducted the same from day to day.