Safety & Supervision
Ensuring that a child only leaves the building with a person on the approved pickup list.
What is the release of children policy?
Allowable items: Plain polo shirts, slacks/skirts/shorts, company-logo items, crocs and sneakers
Prohibited items: leggings, sweatpants, ripped clothing, slippers or boots
What is the dress code policy?
Characteristics of this art include instuctions or a sample to copy, a finished product in mind, everyone making the same art piece, and a right/wrong way to proceed/
What is product focused art?
The mutual, strong, long-lasting relationships between children and significant adults such as parents, family members, and teachers.
What is attachment?
These items must be stored in a locker each day and may not be located in your classroom at any time.
What are cell phones and smart watches?
Educators position themselves throughout the outdoor space and rotate their position to ensure children can be supervised throughout play
What is the playground supervision policy?
This procedure is completed at these times each day:
Upn arrival, upon entering a classroom, after toileting or assisting with toileting, after each diaper change, before and after food eatring or handling, after contact with any bodilkt secretions, after coming in from outdoors, whenever they are dirty.
What is the handwashing polciy?
Characteristics of this art include a focus on the experience and an exploration of techniques, tools, and materials producing unique and original work.
What is process focused art?
A child's ability to actively control arousal and his/her response to it.
What is self-regulation?
This statement must be made off the top of your head each time you leave a room in the hands of someone else, or upon being asked by any administrator and any time.
What is the know your numbers statement?
Children must be in the direct SIGHT and SOUND of educators at all times.
What is the supervision policy?
The ratios for this solution is 1 tablespoon bleach to 1 quart of water and it should be used after each diaper change.
What is the sanitizinf diapering surfaces spray?
The reflection os light captured by our eyes; can be mixed, tinted, shaded, and toned.
What is color?
A child's ability to use independent thought and action to meet his or her needs.
What is initiative?
These devices are to be used for communication purposes, aid in maintaining active supervision, and prevent staff from needing to 'meet at the door' for information.
What are walkie talkies?
Having your attendance record available on a clipboard and calling out each child's name while also visually confirming that they are present.
What is the transistion policy?
This should be completed any time first aid is administered to a child. It should be complete and factual. Wording is important. Should be completed for each child involved, reviewed by administrator before speaking to parent, and discussed with and signed by parent the day that it occurs.
What is an incident report?
How a surface feels and or how it appears to feel (smooth, rough, wet, sharp, etc)
What is texture?
The ability to stretch with stress and also bounce back to a relaxed state.
What is resilience?
This involves activities that engage a child's senses (touch, taste, smell, sight, sound, movement, balance) to help them learn and develop cognitive, social, emotional, and motor skills through exploration.
What is sensory play?
A proactive childcare strategy where caregivers use focused attention, strategic positioning, and intentional engagement to constantly monitor children, preventing injuries, supporting development, and fostering a safe environment.
What is Active Supervision?
Spray with soapy water solution, wipe clean. Spray with food surface bleach spray and allow to sit for two minutes before wipiung dry. This should be done before and after every meal.
What is the table cleaning procedure?
This is the process of finding new value or possibilities in existing things by forming novel connections, often involving reframing objects' typical uses or exploring unexplored conceptual spaces, leading to original ideas, solutions, or understandings beyond what's immediately apparent. Can be expressed through art, music, movement, drama, and writing.
What is creative discovery?
These negative influences in a person's life through stress, change, adversity, access, and situations.
What are risk factors?
This is an early childhood education framework, championed by NAEYC, that guides educators to create joyful, strength-based learning environments by considering a child's age, individual needs, and cultural background through play, exploration, and responsive teaching, fostering optimal development across all domains (cognitive, social-emotional, physical)
What is Developmentally Appropriate Practice?