CDA Practice Test 2 2023 Questions and Answers (Detailed Solutions)

Question 6 Using a warm voice, smiling often and being kind and patient with the children will: Keep the children from misbehaving. Create a nurturing relationship with the children. Show your center director you are a good employee. Make the parents like you. Correct Answer: Create a nurturing relationship with the children. - Your most important role each day is to create a loving warm environment for your students. Be a caregiver that gives appropriate hugs, smiles at them often, cares about their successes, support them when they are sad and do whatever you can to assure they feel safe and secure while in your care. Question 7 Alisa comes to preschool every day and shares details from TV programs which you think are inappropriate for the other students to hear. You ask her what time she goes to bed and she says that she usually just falls asleep on the couch while watching TV. You have noticed that she is sleepy while the other students are still active. You want to discuss these issues with her parents at the next conference. Which of the following would be best practice? Create a list of approved videos which the parents might invest in for the future. Give this list to all of the parents at the conference time. Tell the parents that the shows they are letting Alisa watch are inappropriate for children her age and that she must stop talking about them at school. Tell them that too much screen time is detrimental to development. Give the parents some books and activities which they can do with Alisa at home instead of watching TV. Tell them to limit her viewing and to put her to bed by 8:00 every night. Ask the parents about Alisa's sleep practices and TV habits. Discuss age-appropriate sleep needs and TV-viewing with them. Correct Answer: Ask the parents about Alisa's sleep practices and TV habits. Discuss age-appropriate sleep needs and TV-viewing with them. - It is never a good idea to confront parents. This might put them in a defensive mode of listening. It is best to ask the parents about Alisa's habits and offer some research-based information which will help them make more appropriate choices for Alisa. Some parents have difficulty with consistency and discernment. Sending home lists may not be enough and would not help with the sleep issue. Care-givers should make suggestions which will help children succeed in school. Question 21 Lan has been having trouble using scissors to cut out shapes from papers. Her peers are able to do this. Lan has lately refused to participate when scissors are part of an activity. What should her teachers do to help Lan with this skill? Cut out the shapes for her during activities so that she can participate. She is not developmentally ready for cutting. Let her take the activity home to complete it there. It is her parents' job to help her learn to cut. Have another child do her cutting for her while Lan does the other parts of the activity. Lan is obviously frustrated with cutting and should not be forced to use scissors at all. Give Lan some extra activities at other times which will help her develop her fine motor skills. When cutting is required, help her use the scissors before she gets frustrated and gives up. Correct Answer: Give Lan some extra activities at other times which will help her develop her fine motor skills. When cutting is required, help her use the scissors before she gets frustrated and gives up. - Children develop fine-motor skills at different rates. Giving Lan other activities which will help her develop these skills will be less frustrating than cutting. While her skills are developing, give her the chance to use the scissors while helping. You might also offer her a different type of scissors which may make cutting easier. Encourage her to do what she can and intervene before she gets frustrated. Do not point out her lack of skill to the other students.