Here to Serve
Total amount of KinderCare's Service Values
SIX
Back and forth interactions between teachers and children
Serve and Return
Location of our center
Forest
Deposit or Withdrawal: the teacher identifies a student is sharing well with their friends and has that student move their popsicle stick up from "having a good day" to "being a good role model."
Deposit
Specific skills in a developmental domain
Active/Quiet/Visual: shapes on floor, bean bags for throwing, high-jump markers, etc.
Active Area
Location of laundry schedules
Every classroom
Laundry room
Identify the Service Value: Ms. Jen sees one of her students struggling to sit still during circle time. She provides her student with a choice of a fidget toy or to stand and help her while she continues her circle time.
Responding to the unique needs and interests of every child
Deposit or Withdrawal: a student watches their teachers begin to question each other about how to teach the concept of sharing. The child sees the teachers yell at each other and then the child begins to yell at their friends when they don't get the toy they want.
Withdrawal
Location in curriculum manual where the developmental domains and learning standards for each age group
Back of the manual
Active/Quiet/Visual: timer, images of appropriate behaviors, daily schedule
Visual cues
Methods of transitioning in the hallway
Using/modeling tiptoes
Identify the Service Value: the teacher shares frequent updates about each child that is individualized and unique.
An important part of my job is talking with parents about their children
Recite the Five Steps for Brain Building
1. Share the focus
2. Support and encourage
3. Name it
4. Take turns, back and forth
5. Practice endings and beginnings
Name examples of learning standards
gross motor skills
fine motor skills
emotional regulations
conflict resolution
using words to express themselves
controlling impulses
Active/Quiet/Visual: Space for children to practice using materials and expressing emotions
Quiet Area
Location of time-off request forms
Break room
Recite all six Service Values
My team works together to make our center warm and welcoming
I genuinely care about every child in my classroom
I respond to the unique needs and interests of every child
I build great relationships with families
An important part of my job is talking with parents about their children
I anticipate and quickly resolve parents' concerns
-use walking/inside feet
-model walking/inside feet
-ask child to demonstrate after modeling
Cognitive
Social - emotional
Physical
Language and Literacy
Executive
Ways to promote a positive classroom culture
-Being warm and emotionally supportive
-using consistent but flexible schedules and routines
-understanding challenges and managing them effectively
Infant (6weeks to 16mo) - 1:4
Toddler (16mo to 24mo) - 1:5
DPS (twos) - 1:8
Threes - 1:10
Fours - 1:10