Why does Ms. Chang limit the number of children who can be at the dramatic play area at once? What are the advantages of dramatic play for young children?
What will be an ideal response?
In limiting the number of children, Ms. Chang increases the likelihood that all of the children who are there can play an active role in whatever scenario is being enacted at the time. Dramatic play has many benefits. For instance, it:
• Allows children to practice a variety of adult roles
• Gives children practice in planning and carrying out an extended activity
• Encourages children to behave in accordance with certain standards for behavior
• Enhances children's perspective-taking ability
• Provides a context in which children learn skills in negotiation, compromise, and conflict resolution
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- targeted group interventions for students specifically identified as at-risk.
- intensive, individual interventions for individual students.
- referral for special educations services.
- core instructional interventions for all students.
A good way to handle transitions to the playground is to:
A. Make children walk with their hands behind their backs B. Wait until everyone is quiet before leaving the room C. Have the ‘good' children go first, and the ‘bad' children last D. Have children pretend to be a train when going to the playground
What are the gross motor skills that the Head Start Framework identifies as ones that preschoolers should be encouraged to develop?
What will be an ideal response?
Identify the teacher’s first formal experience in the classroom.
a. student teacher b. participant-observer c. field placement d. internship