Principles of Teaching Young Children
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Course Introduction
Principles of Teaching Young Children explores foundational theories, practices, and strategies essential for effective early childhood education. The course examines child development from birth through age eight, emphasizing developmentally appropriate practices that foster cognitive, social, emotional, and physical growth. Students will learn to design inclusive, engaging learning environments, adapt instruction for diverse learners, and implement positive guidance techniques. Through the analysis of curriculum models, assessment tools, and family engagement techniques, participants will gain skills for supporting children's holistic development and establishing strong educator-child relationships in early learning settings.
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Art and Creative Development for Young Children 8th Edition by J. Englebright Fox
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Chapter 1: Understanding Creativity
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Q1) Which is the most important in planning creative activities for young children?
A) The creative process is most important because this is when cognitive activity occurs.
B) The product is most important because it gives the child the opportunity to reflect on his/her efforts.
C) The creative process and product are both equally important.
D) It depends on the materials used by the child.
Answer: A
Q2) Children demonstrate a creative attitude when they:
A) accept answers given by an adult source.
B) follow adult directions.
C) take things apart and put them back together in different ways.
D) focus on concrete objects in their environment.
Answer: C
Q3) Processing is important for children only because it culminates in a finished product that validates its importance for children.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Creative Thinking
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Q1) In creative thinking, originality refers to:
A) coming up with many possibilities.
B) the uniqueness of an idea.
C) making an idea rich or complex.
D) coming up with very different responses.
Answer: B
Q2) Which of the following activities, introduced after reading a story in class, would most encourage creative thinking in young children?
A) creating their own ending to the story
B) drawing a picture of their favorite part of the story
C) describing the setting and characters of the story
D) identifying the author and illustrator of the story
Answer: A
Q3) The left hemisphere of the brain controls creative abilities, body awareness, and spatial orientation.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Creative Experiences
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Q1) A teacher can help students use rhythm instruments successfully by providing:
A) an understanding of mathematical patterns
B) a sense of rhythm and timing
C) experiences with rhythm
D) all of the above
Answer: C
Q2) Which of the following is not a developmentally appropriate music experience for a four-year-old child?
A) learning basic musical concepts such as tempo, volume, and pitch
B) comparing three or more sounds
C) creating new lyrics for a song
D) doing fingerplays
Answer: B
Q3) During play therapy, the manipulation of toys allows children to:
A) act out frustrations or negative emotions.
B) show how they feel about themselves, others, and events in their lives.
C) expend excess energy.
D) learn about feelings and emotions.
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Art and the Developing Child
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Q1) Fine motor skills are perfected before gross motor skills.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A child's physical development depends on:
A) rest, exercise, sleep, and nutrition.
B) rest, exercise, and vitamins.
C) rest, nutrition, and outdoor play.
D) nutrition, climate, and genetics.
Q3) List the three types of knowledge described in Piaget's theory.
Q4) What makes an art material safe?
A) a label designation of AP or CP
B) a new manufacturing date
C) knowledge of the material and its proper use
D) a name-brand label
Q5) Glitter should only be used under close adult supervision and by children above the age of:
A) 10 years.
B) 12 years.
C) 4 years.
D) 2 years.
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Chapter 5: Childrens Artistic Development
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Q1) During the first year of life, children bring drawing tools to their mouths more often than to paper.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Aside from expensive finger-paint paper, list four other possible surfaces on which children can finger paint.
Q3) The young child's first attempts at drawing are scribbles.
A)True
B)False
Q4) List five ways that knowing the stages of development in children's art will help teachers.
Q5) A more accurate name for finger painting is:
A) paint spreading.
B) hand spreading.
C) hand painting.
D) brushless painting.
Q6) Children begin to scribble around three years of age.
A)True
B)False
Q7) List four different positions in which children can draw or paint.
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Chapter 6: The Elements of Art
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Q1) Painting a room in a light color will make it look smaller.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In art, a line is all of the following except:
A) a representation of an edge.
B) simple or complex.
C) a continuation of a dot.
D) nonexistent in nature.
Q3) Working with patterns facilitates all of the following except:
A) learning in the curricular area of reading.
B) creative self-expression.
C) learning in the curricular area of mathematics.
D) logical-mathematical thinking.
Q4) Turquoise is an example of a(n):
A) primary color.
B) intermediate color.
C) secondary color.
D) neutral color.
Q5) List three cool colors.
Q6) Describe how children in your class will learn about the art elements.
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Chapter 7: Aesthetics
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Q1) Picture book illustrations can be considered works of art.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The textbook recommends that young children's first experiences with watercolor painting be:
A) making realistic art.
B) tactile experiences.
C) limited to the use of only one or two colors of paint.
D) using watercolors to make lines, colors, shapes, and abstract designs.
Q3) Aesthetics is a branch in the field of psychology.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In Reggio Emilia schools, learning is:
A) based on communication between children and peers and children and adults.
B) embedded in a carefully planned curriculum of developmentally appropriate activities.
C) viewed in a neobehaviorist framework.
D) viewed within an interactive-constructivist framework.
Q5) List the three elements of aesthetics.
Q6) List four of the six components of an aesthetic attitude.
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Chapter 8: Sensory Experiences
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Q1) Fill in the blank in the following equation: Sense + Perception + Feeling + Thinking =
A) Learning
B) Cognitive Development
C) Concepts
D) Intuitions
Q2) Which of the following materials would be used to foster active listening in an early childhood classroom?
A) a microphone
B) a megaphone
C) a metronome
D) ear plugs
Q3) Which of the following is not an activity for children to support their kinesthetic sense?
A) using their bodies to act like a specific animal
B) pantomiming swimming in the ocean
C) using finger puppets to act out a story
D) making numeral and letter shapes with their bodies
Q4) List the five senses.
Q5) List the three basic sensory modalities preferred by children.
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Chapter 9: The Complete Early Childhood Art Program
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Q1) Which of the following artists is known for his/her abstract style?
A) Jackson Pollock
B) Clementine Hunter
C) Juan Gris
D) Henri Matisse
Q2) Describe each of the four primary components of a complete early childhood art program and explain why each is important for young children.
Q3) Which style of art introduced collage as an art form?
A) kinetic art
B) Impressionism
C) Surrealism
D) Cubism
Q4) The work of Mary Cassatt is representative of which artistic style?
A) Impressionism
B) Expressionism
C) Surrealism
D) realistic art
Q5) Pop art makes a social statement about contemporary American culture.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Child-Centered Art Versus Teacher-Directed Projects
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Q1) The three-dimensional arts include all of the following except:
A) sculpture.
B) ceramics.
C) printmaking.
D) architecture.
Q2) Children's access to the materials in the art center should be limited for reasons of safety.
A)True
B)False
Q3) List five activities that might be done by a teacher acting as a facilitator.
Q4) Which of the following is not an appropriate role for adults in a developmentally appropriate early childhood art program?
A) providing models of projects to inspire children
B) providing opportunities for children to choose from a variety of activities and materials
C) providing time for children to explore through active involvement
D) facilitating children's engagement with materials and activities
Q5) List the five basic elements of shape on which Brookes bases art instruction for young children.
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Chapter 11: Planning, Implementing, and Evaluating Art
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Q1) Which of the following is not an approach for developing curriculum?
A) embalmed
B) emergent
C) child-centered
D) canned
Q2) Emergent curriculum is a new approach to curriculum development
A)True
B)False
Q3) The responsibility for curriculum development belongs to the:
A) child.
B) publisher.
C) principal or director.
D) teacher.
Q4) Curriculum development includes planning classroom management procedures.
A)True
B)False
Q5) List the four types of learning identified by Kath (1987).
Q6) Identify the two major processes in implementing early childhood curriculum.
Q7) Explain the difference between dispositions and feelings. Describe how you will address both in the curriculum activities you plan.
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Chapter 12: The Art Center 1
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Q1) Describe a curriculum connection between art and each of the following subject areas.
a. Mathematics
b. Science
c. Language arts
d. Social studies
Q2) Tanesha discovering that mixing red and blue finger paint makes purple
A)speaking
B)writing
C)science
D)social studies
E)mathematics
Q3) Adults should always dispose of children's artwork secretly, so that children will not be hurt or disappointed that their art is not appreciated.
A)True
B)False
Q4) List the three science concepts that children learn by constructing a mobile.
Q5) List three graphic activities that are important steps in the development of a child's ability to print and write.
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Chapter 13: The Art Center 2
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Q1) Art activities designed to teach children about the elements of art should be assigned for children to complete in the art center.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Teaching children the find-use-return cycle in the art center will:
A) teach personal responsibility.
B) free the teacher from total responsibility for maintaining the center.
C) both a and b
D) none of the above
Q3) List the five criteria for an early childhood art center.
Q4) Which of the following provides an appropriate rationale for using a center format in the early childhood art program?
A) It will foster independence for the children.
B) It will maximize floor space in the classroom.
C) It will free the teacher to work with small groups for math and language arts.
D) It will make more efficient use of time during the school day.
Q5) List three suggestions for activities in the early childhood art center.
Q6) List the rules suggested for the early childhood art center.
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Chapter 14: Art Experiences Through Technology
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Q1) Which of the following is not an example of an adaptive peripheral?
A) touch screen
B) voice-to-text software
C) Braille keyboard
D) wireless mouse
Q2) Which of the following would be an appropriate use of technology for an 18-month-old child?
A) watching a Baby Einstein video
B) Skyping with a traveling parent
C) listening to an audiobook
D) playing Angry Birds
Q3) Computer activities should be accompanied by ___________activities in the classroom.
Q4) In Logo, _________________is a futuristic-looking object that beeps, walks, and turns on typed commands from the keyboard.
Q5) A___________ is a tiny unit of color in a digital photograph.
Q6) Text is easier to work with in a painting program.
A)True
B)False
Q7) List seven suggested rules for the computer center.
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Chapter 15: Roles, Responses, and Strategies to Support
Childrens Art
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Q1) Taking art dictation deepens the teacher's understanding of the child artist. A)True
B)False
Q2) During art group time, children can learn:
A) art-related vocabulary.
B) to discuss each other's creative work.
C) to share art materials.
D) to make artistic decisions.
Q3) Explain what you will need to know and be able to do as an art specialist in your classroom. Why is this important?
Q4) Young children will stay involved in art activities for longer periods of time when:
A) adults do not interfere.
B) an adult is present and engaged.
C) the teacher provides new tools and media.
D) another child is engaged and enthusiastic about the activities.
Q5) It is important for early childhood teachers to excel in at least one of the arts. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Art Assessment
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Q1) Dating the art samples in a child's portfolio is important because:
A) it helps children understand the concept of time.
B) it helps you see a child's progress and development over time.
C) it provides an organizational structure for the portfolio.
D) parents will want this information.
Q2) A single observation of a child can confirm his/her current stage of cognitive development.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Genishi (1993) believes that young children's artistic progress can best be documented by an art portfolio that contains:
A) the best of children's art.
B) child-selected art samples.
C) art samples that indicate children's abilities and preferences at specific points in time.
D) parent-selected art samples.
Q4) List the six guidelines for effective observation and recording.
Q5) Angelina poured juice from the pitcher to her cup without spilling.
A)Fact (f)
B)Inference (i)
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