Minimum Standards
MUST we provide an alternative activity for those children who cannot sleep?
YES!!
You MUST allow each child who is awake after resting or sleeping for one hour to participate in an alternative, quiet activity until the nap/rest time is over for the other children.
You MUST take a toddler who sleeps or rests in a crib out of the crib for other activities when he awakens.
What is dress code ?
Lighthouse shirt
black or khaki pants
Dress up nice
teacher shirts and jeans on Friday
Knee length shorts during summer
Define classroom management
The techniques a teacher uses to keep students organized, orderly, focused, attentive, and academically productive during class.
How often should you update Procare and WHY?
All throughout the day! Procare is the parents main connection to what their child is doing while they're at school.
When must caregivers wash their hands?
Name at least 8
• Before eating or handling food or medication.
• Before feeding a child.
• After arriving at the child-care center.
• After diapering a child.
• After assisting a child with toileting.
• After personal toileting.
• After handling or cleaning bodily fluids, such as after wiping noses, mouths, or bottoms, and tending sores.
• After handling or feeding animals.
• After outdoor activities.
• After handling raw food products.
• After eating, drinking, or smoking.
• After using any cleaners or toxic chemicals
• After removing gloves.
What does “supervising children at all times” mean?
The assigned caregiver is accountable for each child’s care. This includes responsibility for the ongoing activity of each child, appropriate visual and/or auditory awareness, physical proximity, and knowledge of activity requirements and each child’s needs. The caregiver must intervene when necessary to ensure children’s safety
Can staff make coffee/tea before shift and take it with them into their classroom?
No! Minimum standards states that no hot liquids are permitted in classrooms.
A child is yelling and screaming while you are trying to teach. What should you do?
Follow the approach to classroom management poster located in your classroom :)
What is the focus of parent pick up and why is this small window of time so important?
Communication with the parent and the parent's perception of the day.
Name 4 signs of illness.
• Fever, Lethargy, abnormal breathing, uncontrolled diarrhea, two or more vomiting episodes in 24 hours, rash with fever, mouth sores with drooling, behavior changes, or other signs that the child may be severely ill.
Name ALL Classroom Ratios.
0-11 months: 1:4 & 2:10
12-17 months: 1:5 & 2:13
18-23 months: 1:9 & 2:18
2 years: 1:11 & 2:22
3 years: 1:15 & 2:30
4 years: 1:18 & 2:35
5 years: 1:22 & 2:35
School-Age: 1:26 & 2:35
You are outside on the playground with your class when you trip and fall. This fall results in mild pain in your right knee. What should you do?
Notify management within 24 hours of the injury
What are Expectation Cue cards and how are they used?
They are present in all BRIGHT classrooms and are used to support sensory learning.
Why is it important to assist parents with drop off transition and what are ways you can assist?
So that it is not a stressful start to the parent or child's day.
Help the parent empty their hands
Take the child and get them engaged in an activity
Give 3 examples of what methods of discipline and guidance a caregiver may use.
• Using praise and encouragement of good behavior instead of focusing only upon unacceptable behavior.
• Reminding a child of behavior expectations daily by using clear, positive statements.
• Redirecting behavior using positive statements
• Using brief supervised separation or time out from the group, when appropriate for the child’s age and development, which is limited to no more than one minute per year of the child’s age.
Name four 4 areas of responsibility and accountability regarding supervision.
Ages of children
Individual differences and abilities
Indoor and outdoor layout of the child-care center
Neighborhood circumstances, hazards, and risks
Under what circumstances can we request that you submit for a drug testing? (2)
After a work related injury
If we suspect that you are under the influence of drugs or alcohol while at work
What are the 4 steps to classroom management in a CARES classroom? (4)
Remind
Relate
Redirect
Relocate
If you are busy (changing a diaper or cleaning vomit) and you cannot stop what you are doing when a parent enter the room, what do you do?
Simply say something like "Good morning Ms. Edwards, I will be with you in one moment." This allows the parent to know you realized she walked in the room and you aren't ignoring her.
You may not use screen time activity for a child under the age of ______ Years
List ALL 9 areas of discipline that is NOT acceptable and is expressly prohibited and will result in termination.
• Corporal punishment or threats of corporal punishment.
• Punishment associated with food, naps, or toilet training.
• Pinching, shaking, or biting a child.
• Hitting a child with a hand or instrument.
• Putting anything in or on a child’s mouth.
• Humiliating, ridiculing, rejecting, or yelling at a child.
• Subjecting a child to harsh, abusive, or profane language.
• Placing a child in a locked or dark room, bathroom, or closet; and
• Requiring a child to remain silent or inactive for inappropriately long periods of time for the child’s age, including requiring a child to remain in a restrictive device.
Jack was climbing on the sink in your classroom and he slips and falls. He is bleeding from his head.
How do you handle this situation?
Apply pressure to the bleeding wound
Call/scream/yell for management
What are the 4 steps to classroom management in the BRIGHT classrooms? (4)
Show
Discuss
Engage
Redirect
If a child has been misbehaving all day how should you relay this information to their parents?
You shouldn't! Please allow management to discuss sensitive matters with parents. Let us be the bad guy.
Name three general responsibilities of all childcare employees
• Demonstrate competency, good judgment, and self-control in the presence of children and when performing assigned responsibilities.
• Relate to children with courtesy, respect, acceptance, and patience.
• Recognize and respect the uniqueness and potential of all children, their families, and their cultures.
• Ensure that no child is abused, neglected, or exploited while in the care of the center
• Report suspected abuse, neglect, and exploitation to DFPS as specified in the Texas Family Code