Healthy and Safety
This is the single most effective way to stop the spread of germs in a classroom.
What is washing hands?
This positive strategy involves guiding a child away from an unwanted behavior toward an acceptable activity.
What is redirection?
This domain involves a child's ability to control large muscle groups for activities like running, jumping, and climbing.
What is gross motor development?
To prevent morning chaos, a teacher should set these up on tables so early-arriving children can immediately engage in calm activities.
What are invitations to play (or tabletop activities)?
According to Tennessee code, if a parent fails to pick up a child and all emergency contacts are unreachable, the teacher must notify the director, who may ultimately contact this state agency or non-emergency line.
What is Child Protective Services (or the Department of Children's Services / DCS)?
These are the maximum numbers of children one teacher is allowed to watch at one time
What is the teacher-child ratio?
This is the term for the periods of change between activities, which often require careful planning to prevent chaos.
What are transitions?
This domain covers how children learn to regulate their feelings, express empathy, and interact with peers.
What is social-emotional development?
This process must be done by a parent or guardian every single time a child arrives or departs in order to have their child in the SproutAbout system.
What is the check in/check out procedure?
Tennessee standards state that centers must have a clear, written policy regarding this extreme operational measure before it can ever be used for challenging student behaviors.
What is an expulsion policy?
This is the minimum age that children should be placed to sleep on their backs to prevent SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome).
What is under 1 year old?
This design strategy uses low shelves and clear boundaries to ensure teachers can see all children at all times.
What is child supervision?
This domain focuses on thinking, problem-solving, memory, and how a child makes sense of the world.
What is cognitive development?
If a child gets a scrape at 4:30 PM, the closing teacher must obtain this from the parent before the child leaves the building.
What is a signature on the official incident/injury report?
According to TDHS rules, this is the legal staff-to-child ratio required for a standard classroom of preschool children aged 3 to 5 years.
What is 1:11?
This is the official step a teacher must take if they suspect a child is being abused or neglected.
What is reporting it to the Child Abuse Hotline?
This is the process of arranging the physical classroom environment to minimize running, crowding, and behavior issues.
What is open concept design?
This specific subdomain involves small muscle movements, such as holding a pencil or using scissors.
What is fine motor development?
Before leaving, the closing teacher must unplug non-essential small appliances like glue guns, CD players, or laminators for this specific safety reason.
What is fire prevention?
Under Tennessee regulations, this is the minimum age required to legally serve as the Director of a licensed child care center.
What is 21 years old?
This is the state required fever temperature that will require dismissal of a child from the classroom.
What is 100.4 or higher?
This teaching technique involves calling out and praising a child who is following rules to encourage others to do the same.
What is positive reinforcement?
This domain includes receptive skills like understanding words and expressive skills like speaking in sentences.
What is language and communication development?
This administrative action ensures that the morning opening teacher knows about any specific behavioral shifts, parent conversations, or supply shortages from the afternoon.
What is updating the shift-change communication log (or teacher notes)?
This is the mandatory minimum number of background monitor visits TDHS performs on a licensed center each year, split evenly between announced and unannounced visits.
What is four visits?