Safety
A ________ must be fastened around children who are seated in high chairs?
What is a safety strap?
Regulation: 418 - 1.5 (ab) (2) pg. 16
Children may not ______ in car seats, baby swings, strollers, infant seats or bouncy seats.
What is Sleep or Nap?
Allowing children to sleep in these has shown in studies to pose a serious risk to the health of the child and their ability to breath.
Please discuss what you should do if a child arrives to the program (or during care) and falls asleep in any of these apparatuses.
True or False: The program must establish and follow a written plan for behavior management that is acceptable to the office. This plan must include how the staff will approach challenging behaviors, help children solve problems and encourage acceptable behaviors.
True
When preschool children are cared for in school age groups at the very beginning or very end of the day, the teacher/child ratio and maximum group size applicable to the _________ _________ in the group must be followed.
What is our the youngest child?
_____ _____ must be covered, and cleaned as needed after emptying.
What is garbage cans?
Use medical gloves and wipe down the lids or any soiled areas, wash hands after taking out any garbage or diaper genie pails.
_______ and other electronic visual media must be turned off when not part of a planned developmentally appropriate program activity.
What is Television?
An operable ________ must be kept in the child care area. Such equipment must be properly maintained for use in the event of a power failure.
What is a flashlight or batter powered latern?
These two activities are performed as soon as a child enters the classroom.
What is hand washing and Daily Health Check?
Methods of discipline, interaction or toilet training which frighten, demean or humiliate a child.
What is prohibited?
Children cannot be left without _______ _______. This includes an awareness of and responsibility for the ongoing activity of each child.
What is Competent Supervision?
Regulation: 418 - 1.8 (a) pg. 21
It requires all children can be within a teacher's range of vision and that the teacher be near enough to respond when redirection or intervention strategies are needed.
Your back should never be towards the children at all times.
Acronym M.A.T. stands for this.
What is Medication Administration Training?
Regulation 418 - 1.11 (c)(2)(vii)(a,b,c) pg 32
MAT staff are the only staff that can accept and administer prescription medications. MAT staff must always be on-site, be at least 18 years of age, possess CPR of the ages of children in care, and have successfully completed the MAT training.
Programs must offer daily supervised _____ _____, except during inclement or extreme weather.
What is Outdoor Play?
This document needs to be posted conspicuously next to every doorway.
What is an Emergency Evacuation Plan
_____ must be available to children at all times and offered at intervals throughout the day.
What is drinking water?
_______ must promote positive self-esteem in children and guild children in such a way as to help each child develop self-control and assume responsibility for his/her actions through clear and consistent rules and limits appropriate to the ages and development of the children in care.
What is Discipline? (or Behavior Management)
-Preset children of expectations daily especially before outdoor/gym play
-if age appropriate, have the children tell you the rules before transitioning to new area
When a child day care center is in operation, an adequate number of qualified staff must be on duty to insure the health and safety of the children in care. These are called _____.
What is Ratio?
6 weeks old to 18 months is 4:1 (Max 8)
18 months to 36 months is 5:1 (Max 12)
3 years old is 7:1 (Max 18)
4 years old is 8:1 (Max 21)
5 years old to 9 years old is 10:1 (Max 20)
10 years old to 12 years old is 15:1 (Max 30)
*DAILY DOUBLE* What is the ratio when you have six 3 year olds and five 4 year olds together and how many teachers are needed?
Space must be provided so that children's _____ _____ may be stored separately.
What are Personal Items?
Regulation 418 - 1.3(s) pg.9
Each staff person and volunteer must complete a minimum of how many hours of training every two years?
What is 30 hours?
These are the two requirements before a child can be released to an unfamiliar adult.
Photo Identification and person must be on the Authorized Pick Up List. Please ask our office for assistance if there is an adult without either.
Cleaning materials must be stored in their original containers unless the product’s use or the program’s health care plan indicates that the product be mixed with _______ before use.
What is water?
_____ ______ means punishment inflicted directly on the body including, but not limited to, physical restraint, spanking, biting, shaking, slapping, twisting, or squeezing; demanding excessive physical exercise, prolonged lack of movement or motion, or strenuous or bizarre postures; and compelling a child to eat or have in the child's mouth soap, foods, hot spices or the like.
What is Corporal Punishment?
Any of these actions are forbidden and would constitute immediate termination and reporting to Child Protective Services.
You are outside with a large group of children and another teacher. One child requests to use the bathroom. Describe the process of how to correctly maintain ratios and supervision.
1. Notify the other teacher
2. Together, discuss which children will stay and which children will come with you.
3. Count your children staying/going
4. Confirm with the other teacher on the correct number of children and that ratios are maintained for yourself and the other teacher
5. Bring the small group with you to the bathroom and count your children before leaving the bathroom area
6. Reenter the outdoor area and notify the other teacher.
7. Each teacher should count the total children individually and confirm the number matches together (ie: "I counted 10 total, what did you count?")
This is the first thing you need to do before handling a child's open wound.
What is put on disposable medical gloves? (Make sure to not use food prep gloves)
How many training hours need to be obtained during a staff member's first six months in the program?
What is 15 hours?
Peeling or damaged ________ must be repaired. (5 answers, must name 3.)
What is paint, plaster, changing pad, toys, furniture?
Use of this item is prohibited to be used on children under the age of 2.
What is hand sanitizer?
Regulation: 418 - 1.11 (i)(4)(ii) pg. 44
Hand sanitizer is available in the building and should only be used on adults. Children should always be brought to a sink with soap and water. Regulations state: When soap and running water is not available, hand sanitizer may be used by children, staff and volunteers on visibly clean hands. Package directions must be followed including supervision of children so that ingestion does not occur.
i. When soap and running water is not available and hands are visibly soiled, individual wipes may be used in combination with hand sanitizer.
ii. The use of hand sanitizers on children under the age of two years is prohibited.
Physical ________ is permitted. Physical _______ is the act of using bodily contact as a short-term immediate response to prevent children from incurring substantial or serious injury to themselves or injuring others.
What is physical Intervention?
IE: How to appropriately and safely intervene a toddler from biting another child?
Describe the processes used to ensure all children are accounted for at all times.
1. Attendance - children are checked in/out immediately on Brightwheel upon arrival and departure
2. Name to Face - staff look at each child and mark them on the Name to Face category on Brightwheel to ensure the number of children in your classroom match the number of children on Brightwheel
3. Before leaving an area (or adding children to a room) they communicate with other staff, give specific names and number amount to the other staff and wait for acknowledgement before you move on
4. If your numbers do not match or you believe there is a child missing, what should you do? (walkie talkie etiquette)
5. All teachers must always know how many children are in their care at all times, without hesitation.
All containers or bottles of breast milk, formula or other individualized food items and personal hygiene items must be clearly marked with ____ _____ _____ _____.
What is The Child's Complete Name?
Regulation 418 - 1.12 (z) pg. 50
Bottle warmers and washing items could accidently remove the child's first and last name. Please reapply with permanent marker whenever necessary.
Staff and volunteers must take suitable precautions to prevent children from receiving burns caused by contact with _____ _____.
What is Hot Liquids?
Regulation 418 - 1.5(ac) pg 17
This includes hot coffee, hot tea, or any warmed beverage. Best practice suggests adults should only drink water in front of the children, and it must be labelled with your first and last name.
These items must come with you during an evacuation drill.
What are emergency bag, attendance sheet/clipboard, iPad, medication box, and children?
Name the times that staff must thoroughly wash their hands. Regulations require at least 9, but name at least 6.
1. Beginning of each day
2. Before & After the administration of medications
3. When they are dirty
4. After toileting or assisting children with toileting
5. After changing a diaper
6. Before & After food handling or eating
7. After handling pets or other animals
8. After contact with any bodily secretion or fluid
9. After coming in from outdoors
Where a child's behavior harms or is likely to result in harm to the child, others or property, or seriously disrupts or is likely to seriously disrupt group interaction, the child _______ be separated briefly from the group, but only for as long as is necessary for the child to regain enough ______-_______ to rejoin the group.
What is may and self-control?
What are each age-group's ratio? (6 weeks-18 months), (18 months-36 months), (3 years), (4 years), (5 years), (5+ years)
6 weeks-18 months (1:4)
18 months-36 months (1:5)
3 years (1:7)
4 years (1:8)
5 years (1:9)
5+ years (1:10)
How many times is a child under 18 months allowed to be given medication solely with verbal consent from a parent?
Zero. A child under 18 months needs verbal consent from a parent AND verbal or written permission from a doctor. We can then administer this medication one time before getting receiving a medication consent form from the doctor.
A parent hands you medication at drop off. There are multiple steps that should be done, name four.
Check to make sure: medicine is in original packaging, medicine is not expired, child's first and last name on the box, the medicine cup/syringe has correct marking for the dose that needs to be given, put in fridge if it needs to be refrigerated, there is a doctors note, inform the office.