Transportation
These 2 items shall be located in each vehicle used to transport children. They should be mounted or secured if kept in the passenger compartment.
What is the First Aid Kit and Fire Extinguisher?
Smoking and the use of any product containing, made or derived from tobacco, including e-cigarettes, cigars, little cigars, smokeless tobacco, and hookah, shall not be permitted on the premises of the child care center, in vehicles used to transport children, or during any off premise activities.
What is a Smoke-free/Tobacco-free Environment?
Completed as part of the on-going training requirement every 5 years. Now available on NC Moodle.
What are Health and Safety Trainings?
Includes activities intended to stimulate the developmental domains, in accordance with North Carolina Foundations for Early Learning and Development
What is the activity plan?
This device should be functioning while transporting children. This device should only be used for emergencies, when the vehicle is parked in a safe location.
What is a cellular telephone and/or 2-way communication device?
All equipment and furnishings shall be in good repair. It shall be sturdy, stable, and free of hazards that may injure children including sharp edges, lead based or peeling paint, rust, loose nails, splinters, protrusions.
What is a Safe Environment?
This is the only training that does not meet your on-going training requirements
What is CPR and First Aid training?
When children are in care and weather conditions permit, either as part of a small group, a whole group, or individual activity, for no less than the following durations:
All programs under 2 years of age=30min daily
Program less than 5 hours ages 0-12 yrs=30min daily
Program more than 5 hours ages 2-12yrs=60 min daily
What is minimum daily outdoor time?
Each child should be restrained with individual seat belt, appropriate to the child's age and weight
What is the child safety seat belt rule?
Staff should complete this before children arrive, to assure hazardous products are locked and inaccessible to children
What are safety checks/ walk-thru?
One staff member shall complete this training, addressing safety hazards, supervision, maintenance and general upkeep of the outdoor learning environment, and age and developmentally appropriate playground materials and equipment.
What is Playground Safety Training?
Interspersed among the daily events shall be individualized caregiving routines such as eating, napping, and toileting
What is the scheduling for ages 2 and under?
Before children are transported, you should obtained this information; when and where the child is to be transported, expected time of departure and arrival, and the transportation provider. It is valid for up to 12 months, for transport of children to and from the center not including off premise activities.
What are transportation permission forms to parents?
Separate play areas or time schedules shall be provided for children under two years of age unless fewer than 15 children of any age are in care.
If a center shares playground space with another center that serves children, a separate play area or time schedule shall be provided for each center.
Children shall not be allowed to play on outdoor equipment that is too hot to touch.
Children shall not be allowed to be bare-footed while outdoors if equipment or surfacing is too hot to touch.
What is the Outdoor Learning Environment?
All center administrators and staff members shall complete within one year of employment and review the plan annually. It Includes:
document the individual's professional development goals
continuing education, coursework, or training needed to meet the individual’s planned goals
be completed by the administrator and staff member in a collaborative manner; and be maintained in their personnel file.
What are Professional Development Plans?
-Blocks of time assigned to types of activities, including periods of time for active play, quiet play, or rest
-Times and activities that are developmentally appropriate for the children in care; and daily opportunities indoors and outdoors for: (A) free-choice activities (B) teacher-directed activities.
What is schedule for ages 3yrs and older?
21 years old or a licensed bus driver
Have a valid driver's license of the type required under North Carolina Motor Vehicle Law for the vehicle being driven or comparable license from the state in which the driver resides
Have no convictions of Driving While Impaired (DWI) or any other impaired driving offense within the previous three years.
What are the qualifications of a driver for childcare facilities?
Covers the area under and around equipment where a child may fall, referred to as the fall zone. The area for fall zones is as follows:
for stationary outdoor equipment used by children under two years of age, shall extend beyond the external limits of the equipment for a minimum of three feet, except that it shall be required at all points of entrance and exit for any structure that has a protective barrier
for stationary outdoor equipment used by children two years of age or older, shall extend beyond the external limits of the equipment for six feet
What is Protective Surfacing?
Each center shall have a record of training activities in which each staff member participates, including copies of training certificates or official documentation provided by the trainer. This documentation shall be on file and current. This document is given by your consultant and shall complete within 30 days.
What is the Staff and Training Worksheet?
This must be listed on every activity plan each day (Free Choice/Play is not considered)
What is a gross motor activity?