Mr Zakhem Was Really Exhausted at the End of the Week

question 53

Multiple Choice

Mr. Zakhem was really exhausted at the end of the week. His Head Start class never seems to be able to clean up the room effectively after free play. He was ready to do something else. What is the best alternative for this group of four-year-olds?

• A) Have direct whole group instruction and eliminate free play.
• B) Change the schedule so that the children would have free play first.
• C) Reduce the number of multiple-piece materials out at one time and provide clear plastic, marked containers to put them in.
• D) Make sure that the consequences for not picking up toys are serious enough so that the children will prefer to pick up instead.

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Definitions:

Demographic Transition

A model describing the shift from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates as a country develops from a pre-industrial to an industrialized economic system.

Fertility Rates

The average number of children born to a woman over her lifetime within a population.

Continuous Childbirth

The phenomenon of having multiple childbirths in close succession without extended periods between pregnancies.

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Abortions that are carried out without the consent of the pregnant individual, often under coercion or as a matter of policy.