Standard 1
Educators consider children's differing activity levels when relating to each child.
What is True
Staff communication with families is culturally sensitive and professional.
What is true:
Educators respectfully greet all families, at a minimum.
Toddlers cannot help in performing daily cleanup and maintenance jobs in the learning environment.
False:
What is educators take advantage of opportunities to help children perform daily cleanup and maintenance.
AHHI: Children should not be assisting with bleach.
Children and adults wash or sanitize their hands before and after meals and snacks.
What is true
Outdoor learning environments include at least three or more natural elements that children can interact with.
What is true,
Ex: grass, sand, rocks, plants, and variations in ground elevations.
Educators support children to resolve a conflict on their own safely.
What is true
Teachers should include guided play during free play.
What is true:
Free play or self-directed play with teacher guidance (guided play) or in a structured game.
Educators do not need to plan for children to smoothly transition from one activity to the next.
What is false:
educators provide visual and or verbal transition cues.
AND have activities and materials for upcoming activities prepared ahead of time.
Children and adults wash their hands or sanitize their hands after playing in water that is shared by two or more people.
What is true
Staff maintain developmentally appropriate staff-to-child ratios in learning environments.
What is true,
1:4 Infants
1:5 Pre-toddlers
1:7 Toddlers
1:10 Preschool/Part Day.
When mixed ratio always follow the lower ratio.
Educators should encourage children to share materials or bring a toy to someone else when they are sad this is considered prosocial behaviors.
What is true
Schedules need to be posted and indicate free play/self-directed play without a specific goal.
What is true:
self-directed play without a specific learning goal (free play, guided play, games, playful instruction and direct instruction).
Met by posted schedules indicating free play time.
Lack of both, will result in a NO rating.
Educators listen, narrate, and respond to what infants, and toddlers say or do by providing additional information.
What is true
Food-serving tables and highchairs are sometimes cleaned and sanitized after snack and mealtimes have ended, prior to being used for other purposes.
What is False,
Always cleaned and sanitized following the three-step sanitation process.
When in the preschool classroom and combined we can have 24 children maximum.
What is false,
class size of:
Infant: 4+5=9
Toddlers: 5+7=12
Preschool and part day: 10+10=20
Educators provide strategies for children to calm their bodies, reinforce and redirect to positive behaviors, or provide more appropriate opportunities for children.
What is true
Educators do not need to integrate ideas and content across multiple learning domains in observed conversations and activities.
What is false:
Make connections between the concepts and skills they are learning across all areas (connecting the content of a shared picture book reading to math or science, discussing respecting differences of opinion when discussing and examining insect specimens).
Educators are consistently attentive to the activities children are engaged in and ask relevant questions to deepen understanding, promote problem solving, and engage critical thinking.
What is true:
Educators use their knowledge of curriculum content to pose problems and ask questions that stimulate toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergarteners to think.
If a child has a contaminated object with saliva or other body excretion, the object is set aside for washing in a labeled bin or in another location created for that purpose.
What is true
Cleaning products used by the program or provider can be scented.
What is false,
non-toxic and fragrance free.
Materials in the learning environment should not show persons with differing abilities engaged in activities that counteract stereotypical limitations.
What is false:
Toys, games, books, posters, photographs that show a variety of people both able-bodied and disabled.
Infant and toddler educators use co-regulation to help children manage their emotions.
What is true:
Educators are attuned and responsive to infant and toddlers who are crying, fussy, excited or angry.
Educators should be using soft, calm, and soothing voices to explain the child's feelings or offer reassurance.
The learning environment for toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergarteners should include at least two displays at child eye-level that have been created to help children reflect on and extend their learning.
What is True:
At least two displays created by the educators and/or children across learning environments with the intent of reflecting on and extending learning.
Ex: creating books, reflection boards, child work products.
Childs eye-level: can easily be seen at the height of the child's eyes while standing
When strong odors occur in the air, we get the air freshener and start spraying until it smells like clean laundry.
What is false:
The classroom is controlled by using ventilation (not air freshening sprays or diffusers).
When in the infant room, I can have 4 pre-toddlers and 1 infant in my primary ratio.
What is false,
I can only have a maximum of four children with a combined ratio in an infant classroom.