Definitions
Trained CYP Professionals are assigned to be physically present with the children in care at all times
What is Supervision?
Provide immediate coaching, guidance, or additional support to CYP professionals
Who is the Program Director?
1:4
What is the infants?
Applying developmental appropriate observations
What is active supervision?
The act of quickly, simply, and vocally counting the number of children in care
What are head counts?
CYP professionals are responsible and have a system in place to account for the whereabouts of all children
What is Accountability?
Support line of sight supervision by wearing approved color-coded apparel
Who is the Training and Curriculum Specialist?
1:5
What is pretoddler/toddler?
Refers to the way CYP professionals continually place themselves in any environment to ensure all children are within sight and/or sound by at least one CYP professional at all times
What is positioning?
A detailed head count procedure that requires CYP professionals to account for each individual child
What is Name-to-Face recognition?
The relationship in quantity between a CYP professional assigned to care for children and the number of children for whom they are responsible
What is Staff:child ratio?
Demonstrate effective supervision strategies to ensure children feel safe and secure
Who is a program lead?
1:12
What is preschool?
A strategy in which CYP professionals estabilish specific zones/areas in a space where each professional has primary supervision responsibility to scan the entire area
What is zoning?
Continuously view the entire care environment to observe the whereabouts of all children
What are visual sweeps?
The ability to see and hear each child at any point
What is sight and sound supervision?
Know the required supervision and accountability measures and follow all required protocols
Who are program assistants?
1:15
What is youth?
The age group that must be supervised by sight AND sound in care at all times
What is infant, and toddlers?
Allows programs to track and monitor each child's attendance
What is attendance roster?
Line of Sight Supervision
What is LOSS?
Serves as the facility gatekeeper to ensure that everyone who enters and exits the facility are documented and tracked
Who are the operations clerk?
1:8
What is youth field trip?
The age group that must be supervised by sight most of the time
What is preschool?
A type of head count conducted before every staff transition, when one staff departs and a replacing staff assumes responsibility
What is a staff transition head count?