Safe, Healthy Learning Environments
Safety certificates that Child Care workers must obtain
What is First Aid & CPR?
The use of our big muscles
What is Gross Motor?
The way a person approaches or reacts to the world.
What is Temperament?
Two or more children working together to complete a common goal.
What is Cooperative Play?
Open-Ended Art, hands-on experiences, children offered choices
What is a DAP Classroom?
The state creates the rules for how many adults to children are in a classroom.
What are Ratios?
The use of our small muscle in hands and feet.
What is Fine Motor?
Includes roles, behaviors, and attributes we associate with ourselves.
What is sense of self?
Children sit side by side playing in same area but not together.
What is Parallel Play?
A framework of principles and guidelines to support a teacher’s intentional decision-making for practice.
What is DAP?
Approximately 3500 infants one year and younger die each year.
What is SIDS?
A standardized tool used to determine if a child is where they should be.
What is an ASQ?
Your verbal and nonverbal communication can let the child know you care about them.
What is Secure Attachment?
Children play by themselves or with an adult who initiates.
What is Solitary Play?
Open-ended, unique, independent art in the classroom.
What is creative art?
This should be done throughout the day. When dirty, before eating, after play.
What is Handwashing?
She is a famous theorist, many preschools use her theory in their daily practice.
Who is Maria Montessori?
The time during the day when children can pick the activity.
What is Free Play?
What is unoccupied play?
Commonality, Individuality, and Context
What are the core considerations?
When teachers are trained, classrooms are organized and children are learning through play.
What is high quality childcare?
Who is Jean Piaget?
Voluntary actions intended to benefit another person.
What is Pro Social behavior?
Children engage in separate but related activities.
What is Associative Play?
The teacher doesn't use the sand table because it makes a mess.
What are Adult-Centered Decisions?