Chapter 9 Educating Preschoolers

Question 1

Why is Sesame Street effective?

Answer 1

Kept the kids attention. Had to have over 85% attention or the episode didn’t show. Condensed it to nothing but educational material. Active entertainment. Kids look away when they got confusing. Engaging. No segment runs longer than 4 minutes. One minute for each year of age you are and tops out at around 20 years old. Real people with muppets worked well. Never more than 2 characters at once.

Question 2

Blues clues

Answer 2

Is more effective than Sesame Street because it is just for the kids not kids and moms as well. The characters talk to the children off screen. Use repetition. One story line instead of a bunch of segments

Question 3

Piagets account

Answer 3

Preschoolers are in preoperational stage. Egocentrism-see world from their perspective. Centration-narrow focus, only one aspect of the problem. The two different glasses effect. Appearance and reality-they confuse the two. Halloween costumes.

Question 4

3 views to know

Answer 4

Piagets view
Info processing view
Lev vygotskys view

Question 5

Theory of mind

Answer 5

Refers to individual understanding between the mind and behaviour. Preschoolers cannot do this. We can see it in others. Starts to emerge at 5, that others have their own feelings and thoughts

Question 6

Informational processing

Answer 6

Environment will have an amazing influence on cognition development. Autobiographical memories begin during preschool years

Question 7

Regulating attention

Answer 7

During preschool years, children become better at regulating their attention. To help them…Asking them questions, gentle reminders, cues and prompts to keep them on track. Yelling never helps and just stresses the child out.

Question 8

Counting follows

Answer 8

3 basic principles…

1) one to one principle
2) stable order. Number names must be counted in the same order
3) cardinality principle-last number has emphasis put on it.

Question 9

How can you help kids remember things

Answer 9

Doing physical activities, recalling their daily activities, family meals at least one meal a day.

Question 10

Vgotskys thoery

Answer 10

Zone of proximal development
Scaffolding
Private speech

Question 11

Zone of proximal development

Answer 11

Difference between what one can do alone and with assistance. How far you can go without needing help, and then with help.

Question 12

Scaffolding

Answer 12

Matching the amount of assistance to the learners needs. Don’t need to show them how to sweep the floor, but more to remind them to move certain things out of the way to get all of the spacew

Question 13

Private speech

Answer 13

Comments intended to regulate own behaviour. Piaget says people grow out of it. Vygotsky says we internalize it.

Question 14

Encouraging word learning

Answer 14

Talk more with children not at children.
Asking children questions while reading.
Bilingual learns as rapid as monolingual.
Ask open ended questions.
Use declarative prose.

Question 15

Development of speech

Answer 15

Telegraphic speech at 1 year. Two word sentences
Grammatical morphemes at 2 years.
Rule based so errors of over regulation occur.

Question 16

Three effective guidelines

Answer 16

Take turns-speaker or listener can’t be both at the same time.
Speak effectively…staying on topic.
Listening well.