MSDE OCC Licensing
This form must be completed if a child is injured (after first aid has been given to the child).
What are Child Accident Reports?
This form should be submitted at least two weeks in advance when requesting time off.
What is a leave request form?
Work Samples, Photos and Conference Forms
What are included in a child's portfolio?
Encourages children's active expression and communication, builds executive function skills, allows children to solve problems, create and explore materials to their fullest and build cognitive development
What is Product vs Process/Open-Ended Art?
Specifics about the child's day not just "had a good day".
What is important to share with families at drop off and pick up?
Suspected abuse or neglect must be reported to these authorities immediately.
What is Child Protective Services(CPS) and OCC Office of Child Care?
Staff must notify this person if they will be late or absent.
Who is the Director?
This strategy focuses on encouraging good behavior instead of punishing bad behavior.
What is positive guidance?
This type of play involves children playing side-by-side by not interacting much.
What is parallel play?
What emergency number should be called in life-threatening situations.
What is 911?
This must be followed when storing cleaning supplies to keep children safe.
What is keeping them locked and out of reach?
\ + / = X
What are the marks made for attendance?
\ = The first Check Point
/ = The second Check Point
**The completed X indicates the child made it from point A to Point B (i.e. classroom, fireside, playground)
These should be developed using positive language at the beginning of the school year, involving the children so they clearly understand what is expected in the classroom.
What are classroom rules?
Stacking blocks and running are examples of this type of skill.
What are gross motor skills?
What two things are due and completed each week?
What are weekly lesson plans and newsletters?
This document must be on file for each child in case of emergencies.
What is an emergency contact form?
This daily record must include each child's arrival and departure times along with a parent/authorized adult's signature.
What is a sign-in and out sheet?
Singing a cleanup song before switching activities is an example of this strategy.
What is a transition stategy?
Individualized instruction, intentional teacher attention and observation, development of key skills and grouping children with peers
What is Small Group Instruction?
Learning best through play is a key principle of this approach.
This principle requires that children are never left alone and are always within sight and sound of a qualified staff member.
What is active supervision?
The procedures to follow after a family checks off that they will be seeking medical attention on the accident report.
What is report to your Director immediately to proceed with a Critical Incident Report?
These types of questions encourage children to think, explore and give more than one possible answer.
What are open-ended questions?
This strategy involves moving a child's attention to a different activity.
What is redirection?
What is needed for Documentation?