Ratios and Group Sizes
Education and Child Development
Promoting learning through approaches to rest, meals, routines, and physical
Health and Safety
Human Resources
100
An Early Head Start class serves children under what age?
36 months
100
A program must ensure teachers implement well-organized learning environments with developmentally appropriate
daily schedules, lesson plans, and indoor and outdoor learning experiences
100
A program must implement an intentional, age appropriate approach to accommodate children’s needs to:
rest/nap time
100
Staff position themselves so that they can observe, count, and listen at all times.
What is Active Supervision?
100
What violation is this?
Dress Code Policy
Body-piercings other than ears are not allowed. Jewelry and makeup should be in good taste.
200
During Nap Time....
one teaching staff member may be replaced by one staff member or volunteer who does not meet the teaching qualifications required for the age.
200
For infants and toddlers, to promote relational learning it must include:
individualized and small group activities that integrate appropriate daily routines into a flexible schedule of learning experiences;
200
For bottle-fed infants, this approach must include
holding infants during feeding to support socialization.
200
Managers and staff must follow mandated reporting statutes and procedures for
reporting suspected child abuse and neglect.
200
8.7 PERSONAL BEHAVIOR AND JOB PERFORMANCE
All employees are expected to report for work on time and conduct themselves in a
courteous, businesslike manner in dealing with associates and the public at large
300
Texas Child Care License Ratios:
Infants (0-11 months):
1 adult to 4 children
300
The curriculum is aligned with ...
the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework: Ages Birth to Five
300
Snack and meal times must be structured and used as learning opportunities that support
teaching staff-child interactions and foster communication and conversations that contribute to a child’s learning, development, and socialization
300
Staff establish nurturing, positive relationships by demonstrating safe behaviors and encouraging other adults and children to try them
Modeling safe behaviors
300
8.7 PERSONAL BEHAVIOR AND JOB PERFORMANCE
All employment is “at will”. Which means ?
employees may be terminated from employment with or without cause, and employees are free to leave the employment with or without cause.
400
Texas Child Care License say's:
Toddlers (12-17 months):
1 adult to 5 children.
400
HSELOF is an acronym for what?
Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework
400
A program must also provide sufficient time for children to ---
to eat, not use food as reward or punishment, and not force children to finish their food.
400
Early Head Start programs prioritize the health and safety of children and families through comprehensive services and policies. These include....
promoting safe environments, ensuring active supervision, implementing hygiene practices, and providing emergency preparedness.
400
8.7 PERSONAL BEHAVIOR AND JOB PERFORMANCE
Reason for discharge may include, but are not limited to the following:
• Dishonesty
• Theft
• Possession, use, sale or being under the influence of drugs or other controlled substances or alcoholic beverage
• Failure to complete required time records, falsification of timekeeping records
• Recording the work time of another employee or allowing any other employee to record one’s own work time, or allowing falsification of any time sheet
• Punching the time clock for another employee
• Failure to clock in and out of work after written warning;
500
Texas Child Care License say's:
Toddlers (18-23 months):
1 adult to 9 children
500
A program must provide ____hours of instructional support
1,380 annual hours of planned class operations for all enrolled children.
500
A program must approach routines, such as
hand washing and diapering, and transitions between activities, as opportunities for strengthening development, learning
500
All infants/children enrolled in the EOAC Head Start 0-3 program will be assessed daily for signs and symptoms of...
disease, illness or injury.
500
What can happen to an employee if any of the following occur:
Inability to work effectively and deal courteously with participants, colleagues, and/or supervisors
Habitual tardiness of 30 minutes or less three (3) times or more within 2 weeks observed by their supervisor and is unexcused
An unreported absence of one (1) day or more
Poor job performance or failure to perform assigned job duties
Failure to comply with instructions from superiors
Reason for discharge: also known as Termination of employment