Best Practices
What is student to staff ratio?
Elem: 1:10
If leadership calls for a stay put in current locations, do you move around the building?
No, explain why?
True or false visuals are to always be visible?
True
A student throws and object that shatters glass in the building.
Leadership is contacted immediately
During supper while your students are eating you and your co are in a conversation bubble with your back turned to students, this is an example of active supervision.
No, this is not active supervision. This also poses the possibly of an incident happening and the adults unable to provide and accurate report the incident of chain of events
When traveling with students, where should the staff member be ?
Lead from the back when you are alone with no more than 10 students.
If you are taking a set of students to the bathroom who are known to be inappropriate, do you send them both to the bathroom at the same time?
No
Why is it important to follow the schedule and stay prepared?
DYCD conduct unannounced visits throughout the year, if you aren't following the schedule nor prepared it negatively impacts program score and quality - Affecting future funding
A child runs out of your room what do you do next?
If alone:
If with another staff:
You and your co are supervising bathroom? what are a few things you can do or your co can do to keep your students busy?
play small team building games likes Ispy, using a program ipad playing heads up, Land of milk and honey game etc
When supervising bathroom where should the staff be positioned?
alone doing Co ed: in between bathrooms
1 gender: by the bathroom door where you can hear what's going on and can see the students standing in the hallway
True or False is an adult ever allowed to be alone with a child?
FALSE
True or false, DYCD gives good marks for classes starting late
false, we get docked and often times get a CAP (corrective action plan)
A student is pushed into a wall and starts to cry what do you do now?
Check the child and report it to leadership right away.
A student asks a group leader to visit another program adult during supper, how do you respond to the child? what do you not do?
Knowing how many students you have at all times is called?
Knowing your head count
When traveling with students, how far should the staff member be from students ?
No more than 2 feet
True or false, staff are allowed to not report to work without staff shirts, DYCD makes notes of positive feedback
false, we will get docked and it will be a negative score under DYCD branding in final report
A staff member falls ill while teaching a class what do you do next?
DO NOT PANIC - Walkie for immediate support from leadership or available staff and remove child from the room
Your co is teaching a lesson, what does support look like for your co ?
engaging and supporting students through out the lesson, Supporting with behavior redirection. etc
Do you call an entire cafeteria or room of students to see who needs to use the bathroom w/o telling the other staff in the room, why or why not?
Absolutely not, this can and does create chaos and confusion. Puts a strain to the relationship with other staff as there is a lack of communication present.
What is the rule of three?
An Adult and at least 3 students are traveling together?
True or false DYCD likes to see staff actively engaged with students during lessons, asking them questions and giving them the opportunity think and share
true
A staff picked up a student that now falls on their head, what's the next move?
Incident is reported by the member that broke policy and procedure and or another staff that saw the incident occur to leadership.
You are supervising students outside, and you ask two students to support supervision so you can be on your phone and not actively supervise students is this okay
no, if a child is hurt you will not have an accurate account of what happened. Depending on the injury and severity you may be suspended from work for lack of supervision.