Safety
The following items must be used and stored in such a manner that they are not accessible to children.
What are handbags or backpacks belonging to adults, plastic bags.
These two (health related) activities are performed as soon as a child enters the classroom.
What is hand washing and Daily Health Check?
The _______ _________ for Supporting Social Emotional Competence in Infants and Young Children is a positive behavioral intervention and support framework early educators can use to promote young children’s social and emotional development and prevent and address challenging behavior.
What is the Pyramid Model?
Tier 1: The primary level includes universal supports for all children through nurturing and responsive relationships and high-quality environments.
Tier 2: The secondary level includes targeted social emotional strategies to support children who require individualized interventions.
Tier 3: The tertiary level describes the need to provide intensive individualized interventions to the students with persistent challenges.
Daily double
Ther are six Active Supervision strategies to keep children safe. Provide 3 of them.
What is: Set up the environment,
Scan and count,
anticipate children's behavior,
position staff,
listen
and engage and redirect.
_______ should be worn when handling ready-to-eat foods.
What is put on disposable gloves?
The use of gloves while serving food is a primary method for maintaining infection control and food safety.
Protective caps, covers, or installed devices must be used to cover these.
What are Electrical Outlets?
All VCLC employees are these____________ as per NYS regulation and are required by law to report any suspicions of child abuse or maltreatment.
What are Mandated Reporters?
True or False: Staff and volunteers must take suitable precautions to prevent children from receiving burns caused by contact with hot liquids.
What is true.
Regulation 418 - 1.5(ac) pg 17
This includes hot coffee, hot tea, or any warmed beverage. Best practice suggests adults should only drink water in front of the children, and it must be labelled with your first and last name.
All staff and volunteers must submit a medical statement and PPD_____________
What is every 12 months?
True or False: Withholding food, rest or eliminating outdoor playtime is allowed due to challenging behavior from a child.
False: All of these are prohibited and are not allowed.
What must be stated positively, include a visual image and posted and visible to children in the classroom.
What are rules?
This must be stored in a place that is inaccessible to children and away from food. Clearly labeled with contents/solution.
What is cleaning solution.
A written ________________of program activities and routines is required.
What is a Daily Schedule
True or False; Proof of child abuse or maltreatment is necessary in order to make a call to the SCR?This means that a child's physical, mental, or emotional condition has been impaired or placed in imminent danger of impairment.
What is False.
You only need to have Reasonable Cause to Suspect. Based on your rational observations, professional training and experience you have a suspicion that a parent or person responsible for the child is harming that child or placing that child in imminent danger of harm.
Materials and play equipment used by the children must be sturdy and free from _______ _______ and _______ _________.
What is free from rough edges and sharp corners?
_____ must be available to children at all times and offered at intervals throughout the day.
What is drinking water?
True or False: Behavior Management must promote positive self-esteem in children and guide children in such a way as to help each child develop self-control.
What is True
What is it when staff carefully plan where they will position themselves on the playground to protect children from harm. This includes positioning themselves to see and hear all children?
What is zone Supervision?
Equipment that is frequently used or touched by children on a daily basis must be _________ and then __________ when soiled and at least once weekly.
What is cleaned and then disinfected or sanitized?
If _________________is used, it must be part of a planned developmentally appropriate program with an educational, social, physical or other learning objective that includes identified goals and objectives.
It must be turned off during mealtimes.
What is electronic media device- smartboard, IPAD.
i.e. The use of any type of electronic media device for social or entertainment purposes (phone, headphones, earbuds) while supervising children is prohibited.
This means that a child's physical, mental, or emotional condition has been impaired or placed in imminent danger of impairment.
What is Maltreatment?
A working ________ must be kept in the classroom. Such equipment must be properly maintained for use in the event of a power failure.
What is a flashlight?
When disposable diapers are used, how should they be disposed of?
What is placed in a plastic bag and disposed in the diaper only pail.
These forms are used to document a student's challenging behavior.
What is Behavior Incident Form (BIR)?
On the attendance form in your red book, what must be completed daily? Name at least 4 out of 5
What is:
-attendance, including arrival and dismissal times,
-daily health check,
-Staff attendance,
-Therapy in/out
-Staff lunch in/out
All containers, cups and other individualized food items and personal hygiene items must be clearly marked with ____.
What is The Child's Complete Name? (first and last)
Regulation 418 - 1.12 (z) pg. 50
Programs must offer daily supervised _____ _____, except during inclement or extreme weather.
What is outdoor play?
This is when a parent or a person who is responsible for the child inflicts or allows an injury to be inflicted upon a child.
What is Child Abuse?
The ___________________ _______________document needs to be posted in every room next to the doorway.
What is emergency evacuation diagram.
Name at least 4 occurrences when children and staff are required to wash their hands.
1. Beginning of each day
2. When they are visibly dirty
3. After toileting or changing a diaper
4. Before & After food handling or eating
5. After handling pets or other animals
6. After contact with any bodily secretion or fluid
7. When coming in from outdoors
This is the process for calling for behavior support
Use walkie talkie Channel 2 for behavior support. Say: Support needed for ___ (Class or child's initials) in the ____ (location)
A student's name is never used in radio transmission.
Describe the processes of name to face attendance.
What is line children up and say each child's name aloud and look at their face.
Must be taken at regular intervals throughout the day, at every transition, and prior to leaving one area and arriving at anther.
Space must be provided so that children's _____ may be stored separately.
What are belongings? Backpacks, clothing items, diapers.
Regulation 418 - 1.3(s) pg.9
Staff should not use this device while supervising children.
What are cell phones.
Staff are required to refrain from any activities that distract them from supervision. OCFS explicitly lists cell phone use as a potential distraction. Any type of personal electronic media device for social entertainment is prohibited.
Mobile phones are allowed for necessary communication to ensure child safety and orderly operation.
Daily Double
What agency must you call if you suspect incidents of child abuse or maltreatment concerning a child.
What is the SCR- Statewide Cental Register of Child Abuse and Maltreatment?
The SCR then relays the information to the local CPS Office