General Knowledge in Early Childhood Education and Care

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Understanding Early Childhood Education and Care

Test your knowledge of key concepts in early childhood education and care with this engaging quiz! This quiz covers various topics, including child development, classroom management, and important safety protocols.

Topics included:

Child health and safety
Developmental milestones
Understanding child behavior

12 Questions3 MinutesCreated by EngagingTeacher42

From the following list, six symptoms are serious enough that a child should be sent home, one of them may require another action. Which of the following symptoms does NOT necessarily require you to send the child home?

When you select materials and toys for your classroom, you must consider the following:

The culture and language of the child

The developmental needs of the child

The interests and skills of the child

The learning objectives

All of the above

Why are infants and young children considered as being particularly vulnerable to child abuse?

A) Young children fight with their siblings

Due to the high financial cost of raising small children

C) Infants and children are not considered vulnerable to maltreatment

Due to their small physical size, early development status and the need for constant care

If a child says something incorrectly, what should you do?

Nod in agreement

Correct the child immediately so they do not learn the wrong word

Say it back to the child the correct way and add some new words or put it in a sentence to extend his/her learning

In the classroom the teacher should display all children's writing samples no matter which language the children have used.

True

False

Which of the following ways are effective to help children understand someone else's feelings?

Help children put their feelings into words

Read books here you can discuss or ask children to describe the character’s feelings

Help children to care, respect others and engage in acts of kindness (for example) collect toys for children who do not have many of their own

If a child has made another child feel bad punish them by putting them in timeout for only a few minutes until they understand the feelings of the child they hurt

All of the above

What are some of the measures that we must do to include children who have a hearing and or visual impairment?

Make sure that lighting is evenly distributed throughout the classroom/s.

Make sure that the classroom environment is not too noisy and that it is not difficult to hear what an adult or child is saying, use furnishings to minimise any echo.

Create pictorial and written labels throughout the classroom that can be read/interpreted easily from a distance

Make sure that there are interesting tactile aids, music and movement toys and activities in the classroom environment which ae incorporated into the daily curriculum

All of the above

The teacher asks the children to hop on one leg while putting on their coat to go outside. She is...

Adding gross motor activity to the learning centres

Incorporating gross motor activities into transitions

To help develop creativity, you can create an atmosphere where children are free to take risks and explore but messiness is not tolerated.

True

False

A Teacher suspected child abuse, she filled out the incident report form and told her director and the director contacted the authorities. It turned out that the suspicion was incorrect, and the child was not being abused. This means that the teacher who reported the incident will get in trouble for false reporting.

True

False

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