Identify Potential Risks
What is a common risk associated with children running on a wet floor?
Slipping and falling
Which method or strategy ensures that the children's physical surrounding is safe and allows the adults to be able to supervise them?
Set up of Environment
Acceptable: Environment, safe environment, classroom setup
Rafela, 18 months old, has discovered that when she runs down the hill, she runs faster. When Ms. Mariela and Ms. Laurese takes the class outdoors, she goes to the highest point of the slope.
Which strategy should be implemented: Proximity or Listen?
Proximity.
Rafaela has displayed interest in the hill enough for staff to anticipate that she will be spending outdoor time running down the hill, if safe = staff should position themselves in proximity otherwise redirect Rafaela.
Draw 2 logos (can be from anywhere), without naming it or titling it. If they can be identified by peers the points are earned.
Great job Picasso!
What is a potential hazard when children are engaging in art activities with small craft items?
Choking on small parts.
Which strategy involves counting the children regularly to ensure they are all accounted for?
Head Count
Acceptable: Frequent head count, scan and count, counting.
Mariela, 11 months old, and Rafaela, 15 months old, are both in the block area and have begun to crawl/waddle towards the dramatic play area.
Which strategy do you use: position of staff or engage and redirect?
Position of Staff.
Child could try to pull up to something and hurt themselves, waddler could lose balance, etc.
Unless there is a behavior that is being anticipated, child hurting other child, there is no need for redirection at the moment.
Finish this phrase mentioned in the PPT:
Children are ________ explorers.
certified
"Children are certified explorers".
Sara is engaged in a game of tag with her friends. Laurese says to Sara, "You can't catch me!" and takes off faster than a greased pig.
What potential risks can you identify?
Sara picks up speed but trips, falls and scrapes a knee, elbow, face, etc.
After a long chase, Sara becomes upset and pushes Laurese.
Sara is unable to catch Laurese and begins to cry.
Laurese runs off, unlatches the gate.
Laurese trips.
Either one of them bump into another child, the child falls and injures themself.
Acceptable: Any possible outcomes
What strategy encourages educators to stay physically close to the children?
Proximity
Acceptable: Closeness, close proximity, being near.
Rafaela and Shaquana are bringing back the young toddlers from outdoors.
Strategy to Use: Scan and Count
Acceptable Answers: Anything that incorporates the strategy.
Solve this Riddle:
You walk into a room that contains a match, a kerosene lamp, a candle and a fireplace. What would you light first?
The match. :D
Gabby LOVES to sit in the writing center. She especially enjoys using ALL the colors to practice writing her name. Robyn joins Gabby at the writing center, Gabby looks up at Robyn, then pulls all the markers she has laid out closer to herself.
What are the potential risks?
Gabby does not want to share; Robyn begins to cry.
Robyn forcefully takes the markers from Gabby and Gabby begins to cry.
Acceptable: Any possible scenarios.
Robyn and Mariela signal to each other five minutes before playtime is over, then tell the children they have 5 minutes left to play. When the children have 1 minute left, Mariela hands out colored circles that match colored squares painted on the ground.
What are Robyn and Mariela doing?
Anticipating behaviors, and using classroom environment (circles on floor) as part of active supervision.
A child has trouble coming back inside the classroom.
Strategy to Apply: Engage & Redirect
What should you do?
Acceptable Answers: Anything that incorporates the strategy.
There’s only one letter that doesn’t appear in any American state name. Which letter is it?
Provide: 1 minute for this
The Letter Q
AriZona Florida
TeXas Georgia
Oregon South Carolina
North Carolina Virginia West Virginia
During a small group activity, Shaquana, Mariela, and Laurese sit at the table. They each hold a fine motor toy. Mrs. Sara joins them and begins talking to them. Rafaela sees all her friends at the table, leaves the block area, and joins them at the table.
Hint: Can be more than a "physical" risk.
A child can be "possessive" of the teacher's attention and become upset with their peer.
*This connects with anticipation, knowing your children and anticipating their needs or reactions to the changes in their environment.
Rafaela has been experimenting with some of the climbing equipment and jumps from the third step onto the ground. The motor skills of some of the other children are not as advanced, but they also try to do it. To help build these skills, Ms. Laurese stands close to the steps on the climbing structure.
What did Ms. Laurese do?
Anticipated Behavior and Proximity
Full points for both or if one is named.
Gabby and Rafaela are transitioning to outdoor play time. Laurese, Sara, Mariela, Gabby, and Shaquana have lined up and sing as they walk out the door.
Which strategy should you use: Engage and redirect or listen?
Children are already engaged in the transition activity, singing, listen (and scan) to see that no children were left behind.
Sing a children's song.