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DESCRIPTION
STUDENT NAME: Ramanpreet singh
STUDENT NUMBER : 211556
PROGRAM: Early Childhood Education
DATE: October 04， 2020
TEACHER: Xiuquan Zhu
COURSE: Developing Meaningful Relationships with a Child
COURSECODE : 322-DRS-ID
TYPE OF EXAM: Mid-term
DURATION: 3 hours

AUTHORIZED MATERIALS: None

AUTRES DIRECTIVES DE L’ENSEIGNANT(E)

The exam is 9 pages including the cover page. You are required to answer 3 short
answer questions and 2 short essay questions. As per the course outline, the mid-term
exam is worth 30% of the final mark for this course.

If caught cheating during the exam, the student will receive a 0% grade for this exam!
The student could also fail this course; could be put on probation, suspension and or
expelled from the program.

APPROVAL LIST
Prepared by: Miss Zhu
Revised by: Miss Williams
Approved by: Mme Sonia Kallel

Good Luck !
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Score: / 54

Short Answer Question 1 ( / 8)

What are the key social emotional skills needed for school? Why are those skills important for

school? Provide detailed explanation for at least two key skills.

Ans 1. Key social emotional skills needed school:

 Confidence

 Capacity to develop good relationship with peers and adults.

 Concentrate and persistence on challenge tasks.

 Ability to effectively communicate emotions.

 Ability to solve social problems.

Importance of these abilities in school.

1. These skills are needed to form relationships.

2. These skills are important express emotions.

3. These skills are necessary for self-regulation.

4. These are needed for emotional literacy.

Explanation of skills

Confidence: The feeling or belief that one can rely on someone or something; firm trust

Capacity to develop good relationship with peers and adults, it makes it way to easier to

spend time in school.

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Short Answer Question 2 (/8)

Understanding children’s temperament is of great help for educators to build meaningful

relationships with children. What are the nine temperament traits? How can you use the

knowledge of temperament to help you deal with children’s challenging behaviors? Provide an

example.

Ans 2. Temperament traits.

1 Activity level: Always active or generally still.

2 Biological rhythms: Predictability of hunger, sleep, and elimination.

3 Approach: response to new situations

4 Mood: tendency to reach with positive or negative mood, serious, and fussy.

5 Intensity of reaction: energy or strength of emotional reaction.

6 Sensitivity: comfort with levels of sensory information sound brightness of light, feel of

clothing, new tastes.

7 Adaptively: ease of managing transitions or changes.

8 Distractibility: how easy a child’s attention is pulled from an activity.

9 Persistence: how long children continues with an activity they find difficult.

Short Answer Question 3 ( / 8)

What strategies can educators use to help young children self-regulate?

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Ans 3: Strategies to help young children self-regulate are written below:

1 Contain their limits with swaddling or by cuddling; gently hold babies close to your chest

and heartbeat.

2 Hold rock, cuddle, sing and read to infants, and toddlers.

3 Respond promptly and consistently to young children’s needs.

4 Offer and encourage infants and toddlers to use comfort items such as pacifier, blanket,

or thumb to hold or squeeze.

Scenario

Question 4 ( / 15)

Scenario: Two girls are fighting over a piece of green construction paper in the art area. They

begin to yell and rip the paper out of one another’s hands. The preschool teacher, Teddy, walks

over and yells, “Stop.” She begins muttering, “I have had enough. You girls have been bothering

each other all day.” She rips the paper out of the girls’ hands and throws it away. “If you’re

going to be little brats, nobody gets the green paper!”

Read this scenario and answer the following questions:

1) It is quite normal for educators to experience challenging behaviors, which might push

their buttons and make them lose their temper. What is the problem that the teacher in

this scenario faces? What are the strategies that help educators manage their stress caused

by children’s challenging behaviors?

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2) What problem do you think the girls have? Write a problem statement and a reframed

statement.

3) If you were the teacher, how would you deal with the girls’ challenging behavior?

Ans 4.

Short Essay Question 5 ( / 15)

Friendship skills are of crucial importance to children’s social emotional development.

1) What are the key friendship skills which an educator can teach to help children make

friends smoothly?

2) What are three stages of learning? Discuss how you will teach preschoolers one of the

friendship skills following the three stages of learning.

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