Guidance and Classroom Management Exam
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Course Introduction
Guidance and Classroom Management explores effective strategies for fostering a positive learning environment and managing classroom behaviors in educational settings. The course examines theories of student development and discipline, emphasizing the importance of proactive guidance, culturally responsive practices, and respectful interactions. Students will learn about techniques for establishing routines, setting expectations, addressing challenging behaviors, and promoting student self-regulation. Practical applications, including real-world scenarios and case studies, help future educators develop the skills necessary to create supportive, inclusive classrooms that encourage academic success and social growth for all students.
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Guiding Childrens Social Development and Learning 8th Edition by Marjorie Kostelnik
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Chapter 1: Making a Difference in Children's Lives
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Q1) Given enough time, all children will eventually become socially competent.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Phase 4 of the Social Support Pyramid is applicable to all children.
A)True
B)False Answer: False
Q3) Which of the following teacher behaviors illustrates Phase Two of the Social Support Pyramid?
A) The teacher provides a visual chart depicting the steps for proper hand washing near the sink in the children's bathroom.
B) The teacher convenes a support team consisting of herself, a speech pathologist and Suzy's mom to discuss Suzy's difficulties communicating to others.
C) The teacher gives Suzy step-by-step instructions for buttoning her coat.
D) The teacher demonstrates how to feed the gerbil.
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Establishing Positive Relationships with Infants and
Toddlers
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Q1) Why should you demonstrate a new toy to a toddler?
Answer: Toddlers have no way of knowing what to do and are more likely to use the toy effectively if someone shows them how.
Q2) Prompt responses to infant signals help infants learn the association between their own behavior and the adult's.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) The difference between performance and competence is a measure of intelligence.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) Why should infants be allowed to explore the environment when they are able to do so?
A) contributes to the development of self-control
B) contributes to learning opportunities
C) allows them to leave the primary caregiver on their own
D) All of these.
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Building Positive Relationships through
Nonverbal Communication
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Q1) Describe how Mr. Yakura should move in trying to establish a warm relationship with Nick, who is two and a half.
Answer: He should bend or squat down, move into axial space, smile and greet Nick by name, lean toward Nick and touch him as appropriate to the situation, and maintain frequent eye contact without staring.
Q2) A cough may be used to clear the throat or to indicate that the speaker is lying. A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) People in lower social positions gesture less than people of higher social status. A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) Children get better at decoding nonverbal messages as they get older. A)True
B)False Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Promoting Children's Positive Sense of Self
through Verbal Communication
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Q1) Prior to snacktime, Brian spent several minutes cleaning up the art table. The best form of praise would be, "You worked hard," followed by which of these sentences?
A) "I appreciate you're being such a good helper."
B) "You're a great cleaner upper."
C) "I'm pleased you put away all the paper and crayons. Now this table is ready for snack."
D) "It makes me feel good when you are so nice."
E) "Thank you."
Q2) What are the benefits of using behavior reflections with children?
Q3) Behavior reflections influence children's learning of language.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What are the benefits of using paraphrase reflections with children?
Q5) What is the difference between self-concept and self-esteem?
Q6) The following question is open-ended: "Is chocolate your favorite flavor?"
A)True
B)False
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Q7) Describe and give examples of how the three components of self-esteem are promoted within a developmentally appropriate classroom.
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Chapter 5: Supporting Children's Emotional Development and Learning
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Q1) People are born with all the emotions they will ever have.
A)True
B)False
Q2) How can you help children recognize emotions in other people?
Q3) "You're feeling pretty unruly."
A)True
B)False
Q4) When it is to their advantage, kindergarten children are adept at hiding their true emotions from others.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Sally begins to cry when her balloon breaks. Her caregiver says in a gentle tone, "Let's see you smile. No more tears." The caregiver is effectively supporting Sally's emotional development.
A)True
B)False
Q6) "Wait for a grown-up, then you can cross."
A)True
B)False
Q7) What are the primary emotions, and in what order do they evolve? Page 7
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Chapter 6: Building Resilience in Children
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Q1) The "ordinary magic" that University of Minnesota researcher Ann Masten describes is the traits inherited by some children to deal with stress and adversity.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Most working parents are likely to return to work before the child is 3 months of age.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The most important factor in predicting whether a child will recover from risk factors is
A) extent of poverty
B) whether or not parents are divorced
C) the number of risk factors
D) None of the above
Q4) Conditions in the womb can affect an individual even into adulthood.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe ways in which children's health is affected by high levels of stress.
Q6) What is meant by the term "psychological disequilibrium"?
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Chapter 7: Play as a Context for Social Development and Learning
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Q1) Learning takes place only as a result of adult instruction.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which statement is NOT a characteristic of the challenging aspect of play?
A) The challenges undertaken are slightly more difficult than what the child can do.
B) Interest remains high in the activity until the child feels that the skill is mastered.
C) Children respond to dares from other children.
D) Boys are shouting as they run down the hill.
Q3) Describe the relationship of gender to play.
Q4) What is the difference between a sport and an informal game?
Q5) All exploratory behavior is play.
A)True
B)False
Q6) The term "play transformation" refers to children's tendency to substitute one object or situation for another.
A)True
B)False
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Q7) Why do adults sometimes think preschool children cheat when they play games?
Chapter 8: Supporting Children's Peer Relationships and Friendships
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Q1) Children who try to bribe other children to be their friends are demonstrating deviant behavior.
A)True B)False
Q2) If you are a child with a physical disability, it is impossible to get other children to like you.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Relationships among children are qualitatively different from those between adults and children.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Preschoolers have a strong tendency to select their friends based on appearance. A)True B)False
Q5) It is during the friendship stage of two-way fair weather friends that the issue of a best friend becomes paramount.
A)True B)False
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Chapter 9: Influencing Children's Social Development by Structuring the Physical Environment
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Q1) How does the adult determine whether the structuring technique used was successful?
Q2) When the environment offers clear cues for behavior children of all ages are more likely to act appropriately.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following statements about schedules is true?
A) Schedules that have large blocks of time and minimal whole group transitions are most effective.
B) Schedules for the primary grades should be set by central administration and followed closely so that supervisor will know when to visit the classrooms to observe specific types of instruction.
C) Children function best when their schedule is strictly adhered to without adjustments over the year.
D) All of these.
Q4) The design of the environment should focus on aesthetics rather than the function of the program.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Fostering Self-Discipline in Children: Communicating Expectations and Rules
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Q1) Which of the following is least characteristic of internalization?
A) It occurs at different times for different issues.
B) It happens spontaneously.
C) It involves behaviors and attitudes that become basic parts of the personality.
D) It involves avoiding self-condemnation.
Q2) List the four questions adults should ask themselves before intervening to change children's behavior.
Q3) Children at the adherence stage do not understand the real importance of the rules they follow.
A)True
B)False
Q4) You hear a child say, "If I get into a fight with my brother, Mom won't let me watch TV tonight; so I won't fight him until she leaves for work." What is this an example of?
A) transductive reasoning
B) guilt
C) identification
D) adherence
E) internalization
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Chapter 11: Fostering Self-Discipline in Children: Implementing Solutions
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Q1) Adult use of punishment can promote sneakiness in children.
A)True
B)False
Q2) One way to assist children in learning to follow rules is to allow the children to make up some of the rules themselves.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Is the following example a correct follow-through? If it is, write "yes" and go on to the next question. If it is incorrect, write "no" and explain why the example is wrong.
Jason wants all the toy cars for himself. Other children would like to play too. The teacher gives a personal message and a warning. Jason does not share. The teacher then says, "Remember, I said you could decide how to share on your own or I would help you. Now I will help you."
Q4) Logical consequences increase children's repertoire of acceptable behaviors.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe three reasons why children break rules and the corresponding solutions.
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Q6) What are the three types of corrective consequences? Give an example of each.
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Chapter 12: Handling Children's Aggressive Behavior
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Q1) When compared with younger children, older children show a ____ proportion of instrumental aggression and a ____ proportion of hostile aggression.
A) lower, lower
B) higher, higher
C) higher, lower
D) lower, higher
Q2) Onlookers experience negative impacts when bullying happens.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Luke believes he is a superhero. He sees some children on the tire swing and runs toward them yelling, "That's my rocket-get away, get away." He hits a child who fails to do what he asks. This is an example of hostile aggression.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Increased language and memory skills lead to a greater capacity for hostile aggression.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Explain briefly what displacement is.
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Chapter 13: Promoting Prosocial Behavior
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Q1) What general training strategy leads to the greatest acquisition of prosocial behavior in children?
Q2) As children mature, their tendency to engage in rescue behaviors is influenced by their knowledge of rules.
A)True
B)False
Q3) As children mature, their ability to share increases steadily.
A)True
B)False
Q4) List three reasons why older children find sharing easier than younger children.
Q5) Mrs. Schmidt wants to teach the children kindness. She is careful to say "thank you" when Greg gives her a valentine. Greg then says "thank you" when Erika gives him one. What is Greg's behavior an example of?
A) adherence
B) modeling
C) empathy
D) imitation
E) guilt
Q6) Define the term prosocial behavior.
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Chapter 14: Fostering Healthy Attitudes about Sexuality and Diversity
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Q1) List some factors that have been identified as critical to successful integration of children with special needs into ongoing programs.
Q2) The development of ethnicity or cultural awareness and sensitivity are A) poverty specific B) stage specific
C) age specific
D) stage specific and age specific
E) All of the above
Q3) Social competence is promoted when adults maintain a nonreactive, matter-of-fact approach to handling sensitive issues.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Ideally, children with special needs should be able to fit into the mainstream without the need to make any significant changes in the normal setting.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Relative to special needs, give an example of what is meant by an invisible condition and why it may not be as acceptable to others.
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Chapter 15: Making Ethical Judgments and Decisions
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Q1) What aspect of judgment making is in question when two adults on the playground disagree about whether or not children should be allowed to climb back up the slide after coming down.
A) values
B) strategies
C) goals
D) standards
E) None of the above
Q2) How are the best ethical judgments made?
A) Spontaneously, depending on the child's infraction and needed consequence
B) Consciously, using the same series of steps found in any decision-making model
C) After a lapse of time, when there has been time to think about how to reach a decision
D) All of the above
Q3) Identify the progression of steps one goes through when making a judgment.
Q4) An obsession is basically the same thing as a compulsion.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Identify 10 possible effects of child abuse on its victims.
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