Active Supervision
When should name to face counts be completed?
1. Anytime there is a transition; Adult leaving or entering the classroom, arriving at the playground, leaving the playground, during drills, at transitions.
2. Counts every 30 minutes
When should teachers and children was their hands? List 3 opportunities.
Children, youth, and adults are required to wash their hands at the following times:
1. Upon arrival each day
2. After diapering or using the toilet
3. After exposure to bodily fluids (e.g., blowing or wiping a nose, coughing on a hand, or touching any mucus, blood, or vomit)
4. Before meals and snacks
5. Before preparing or serving food
6. After handling raw foods that requires cooking (e.g. meat, eggs, poultry)
7. After playing in water that it is shared by 2 or more people
8. After handling pets or any materials such as sand, dirt, or surfaces that might be contaminated by contact with animals
9. When moving from one group to another that involves contact with infants and toddlers/two’s (e.g. children and staff wash when visiting another classroom).
E. Adults also wash their hands at the following times:
1. Before and after feeding a child
2. Before and after administering medication
3. After assisting a child with toileting
4. After handling garbage or cleaning
5. Before and after treating and bandaging a wound (no
What drills do we complete and how often?
Fire, Intruder, Earthquake, Tornado
-Should be completed monthly
What test does an item have to pass before going into the classroom?
Utilize the choking tube to ensure items are not too small.
Checking age limits on toys, materials (including chewies)
A child did not get their diaper changed that day. What steps were missed? What needs to happen next?
Staff did not follow up diapering guidance of changing diapers every 2 hours.
Review policy, establish diapering routine within your team, report to hotline/OHS if applicable.
Scenario: You are playing at the art table. Some of the children are at the table while others are spread out. How do you ensure awareness of all children?
Complete a classroom sweep to ensure awareness, safety, and monitoring.
What are the steps for handwashing?
1. Use liquid soap and warm running water.
2. Rub hands vigorously for at least ten seconds, including back of hands, wrists, between fingers, under and around any jewelry, and under fingernails; rinsing well; drying hands with a single-use paper towel, and avoiding touching the faucet with just-washed hands. A paper towel should be used to turn off the water.
What procedures should be posted in the classroom?
Emergency maps
Ensuring everyone in your room is familiar with emergency response manuals
When completing a child count when children are asleep, what are you looking for?
Faces are not covered. Children are not under sheets. Face to name count, monitoring breathing.
Infants are on their backs unless they are able to roll both ways with ease
You gave an infant a bottle with the wrong formula. What steps do you do?
Report to manager immediately. Create an incident report.
What does active supervision look like?
80/20 ratio of classroom engagement, facilitation vs. managerial tasks.
On child's level, talking, interacting, observing.
Not- standing, staring at children, talking with co-teachers for long periods
What do you do when you have a confirmed case of head lice?
1 Notify a manager of findings & sending home.
Communicable Disease sheet goes to each family and posted at your classroom door.
2. Check all of other children in the classroom.
3. Ask the family if they need resources.
4. Cleaning procedures: Fabric items are to be removed. If they are able to be in washer and dryer, do the laundry. Larger fabric items should be bagged for 1 week.
What items need to be brought with you during drills or emergency situation?
Child Count sheets
Emergency Tote
1520 Reports
Disaster Tote
Any medications and med logs
What should the sleep environment look like?
Rooms have enough light for clear visibility
Sound machines or music are at a soft level
Staff are zoned throughout the room
Cribs should have fitted sheets, no swaddles after 3 months, no loose items in or on cribs.
A family reports an injury that they noticed after going home for the day. They were not provided an illness/injury form. What are the next steps?
1. Talk with the family
2. Create an illness/injury and note it happened on a previous day.
3. Deescalation tactics.
4. Managers/teachers can review tape.
5.. Process with supervisor ways to increase awareness
**Under no circumstances should we offer families to watch tape** (talk through the process)
What resources are placed in your classroom to support zoning both in your classroom and on the playground?
Zoning Chart
Class Map
Name 1 daily, weekly, monthly cleaning tasks.
*If markers/paint/stickers are on floors, walls, chairs, shelves, this needs to be taken care of before clocking out.
Playground: playground sweep, pick up trash and broken toys, sanitize
Daniel Boone-
Rebecca Boone- Truesdale City Hall
Warrior Ridge- Brick House (need address, picture)
Marvin Marks- First Community State Bank, Holiday Inn Express.
When setting up or re-arranging your room, what are some key indicators to look for?
Quiet centers next to quiet center. Loud next to loud.
Shelves strategically placed to ensure no "hidden" spots in person and on cameras.
Adequate amount of materials available on shelves.
Materials changed out within a 5 week cycle.
1. When should you complete an illness/injury form?
2. When should managers be notified?
3. When should managers sign the illness/injury form?
1. Any type of injury that the child sustains while in care. Any incident that leaves a mark on the child.
2. Before calling the parent to pick up.
3. Managers will sign illness/injury forms when they complete the next check. You should not call for a manager to come into the rooms just to sign the forms or create a transition by leaving the classroom to get one signed.
How do you ensure safety on the playground?
Active Engagement and Awareness
Child Counts
Child Safety
Talk through the 9 steps for proper diapering.
**DAILY DOUBLE** for an extra 500 points, demonstrate the proper technique
1. Gather all needed materials: diaper, wipes, ointment, and gloves. Disposable gloves should be used on both hands for extra protection each time a diaper is changed.
2. Place child on child changing table as far from the edge as possible.
3. Keep at least one hand on the child at all times.
4. Remove the soiled diaper, fold inward and seal.
5. Use a disposable wipe to clean the child. Discard diaper and gloves. Place clean diaper on child.
6. Wash the child’s hands.
7. Wash your hands.
8. Sanitize the changing surface and changing supplies that have been touched (ex: wipes container) after each diaper change with spray bottles that are labeled per the three (3) step sanitizing process:
#1 – soap and water
Use clean paper towel to wipe down
#2 – rinse
Use clean paper towel to wipe down
#3 – bleach solution (0.2ml bleach in 24 ounces water)
· Allow surface to air-dry if possible. If not possible, solution should set for at least 15 seconds before wiping dry with clean paper towel
· Make fresh bleach solution everyday
· store ready for use in a spray bottle
9. Keep all sanitizers out of reach of children and away from food.
Scenario: Someone in your room passes out. What do you do?
1. staff attends to individual, quickly get classroom coverage, call a manager
2. Follow safety, first aide steps
3. Assign someone to call 911, then parent, and Senior Director
4. Complete incident report. Manager notifies B. Heisse
5. Follow up to ensure next steps and how the individual is doing.
When should all doors and windows be closed?
At the end of each day.
When classrooms are empty. Classroom sweeps should
Office door should be closed when no one is in the front.
Side doors, should be closed at all times
You are in a classroom with children still present. A co-worker or parent comes to the door (propping it open) or enters your classroom to "chat" about something non-emergent and you begin engaging in a conversation. What are your next steps?
1. See, Say, Do
2. Set up a time to talk with individual when children are not present.
**process what could happen when this scenario happens**