In America, about seventeen percent of children are enrolled in day care systems. Child care services can get to be quite expensive depending on the quality. Many factors make up the difference between a high-quality and low-quality day care system. These factors including age, education level, and initial and ongoing training of supervisors. The ratio from supervisor to a child, the format of how the day care facility is run, affordability of daycares can also affect the quality. There are many factors that qualify a day care to be a high or low-quality day care and the lower quality care systems can lead to negative short-term or long-term effects on children. Affordability of child care systems has a large effect on the quality of the …show more content…
The first law that required child care workers to be licensed was in Pennsylvania in 1885. The licensing standards are not universal and vary from state to states. There are family owned daycares were many of the employees are unlicensed workers, These forms of care are not visited or inspected expected by government workers unlike nonfamily day cares that are ran out of an actual building with licensed employees. The age, education level, training, and ratio of worker to the child are the main staffing needs. The age required to be a supervisor at a daycare is eighteen years old and the supervisor must also have a high school diploma or their GED. Good supervisors must have had child care development training in their past. They must have four hundred and eight hours of working with children not necessarily in a daycare or an informal job and one hundred twenty on the clock hours of working with children in a formal job. The ratio from supervisor to a child varies between age groups. The younger the child is the more workers needed. From newborn to twenty-eight months there must be one supervisor to every three to four children. When the children get older the fewer employees needed so for children that are between four and five years old there must be one supervisor for every eight to ten …show more content…
It is very important to prepare children for school and make sure they improve their learning on manners and the morality of their actions. If a daycare is run out of a home where the employees do not meet the supervisor standards they day cares tend to be less of an educational or learning program and more of a babysitting format. It is very important that the format of the day care provide learning activities, attentiveness to children’s need, and emotional
There are only a select few in this situation that apply to this situation. Are the children being valued? No they are not. Are the teachers or daycare takers focusing on the children's development and learning? No, they are not. Is the daycare faculty
The minimum standards released by the Texas Department of Family and Protective services concerning ratios do an insufficient job of ensuring that children receive quality care. The NAEYC releases recommendations for childcare operations and as journalist Anthony Jennings puts it, these ratios “are considered the best practices to ensure the level of care is of high quality.” These allowed ratios depend on whether the daycare is a licensed center, a licensed home, or a registered home. While the ratios Texas minimum standards allows in al...
The childcare industry has variables including childcare by a family member, a traditional caregiver or a day care center. It depends on a family’s situation as to which one benefits them most. The two types of childcare to be discussed are the traditional caregiver and a day care center. Parents must decide whether they want a one-on-one or a group setting for the care of their children.
Each education level, level of hands-on experience and continuing training is different for each position in child care. For example, an aide position only requires, “an orientation upon hire and must 16 years of age” ("Careers in Early Childhood: A Maryland Guide"). On the other hand, a nursery school teacher must have several more respectable qualifications. These include, “a Bachelor's degree, 120
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The process of opening a childcare facility is thorough, tedious and time consuming. The benefits of following proper procedures are time saving, informative and essential to the well being of the children being served. As the process begins there are many avenues in which to gather your information. You may choose to reference a textbook for initial pre-licensing direction. A University approved text would be “Developing and Administering a Child Care and Education Program authored by Dorothy Sciarra (Sciarra, 2007). This text will provide valuable information on assessing community needs and establishing a program, as well as licensing and certification objectives and resources. Another avenue source you may choose to access is direct contact with your state run division of childcare licensing. For the state of California, in which I reside, the local contact information is: Fresno Regional Child Care Office located at 770 East Shaw, Suite 300 Fresno, CA 93710. Their contact phone number is (559) 243-4588.. By directly contacting this office, telephone instruction can be provided which will lead you to the necessary steps required to begin the licensing process.
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Childcare centers are regulated by the government. Many states also have education and training requirements for teachers and caregivers.
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Having a safe and healthy childcare setting is one of the most important duties in a daycare. Educators practising good healthy procedures is a good way for children to learn about healthy choices as educators are, good role models.
A normal day for a daycare facility is to have many classrooms full of students like a typical public school; however, they are younger children and are being supervised by an adult. That adult is responsible for, on average, four to ten students at any given time, ages ranging from zero to six. During that time, a lot can happen. These busy workers have many responsibilities throughout the day. The most important one is safety. Because these children are so young, they are also adventurous therefore need a lot of attention. Daycare workers have to spend much time supervising these children while performing other tasks throughout the day. Not only do children need to be supervised to be safe, but they also need to have a safe, clean and presentable environment that the daycare workers of the facility are to maintain. One way to keep things clean is to sanitize, in which is a big task of these workers. Children are always putting things in their mouth and then passing it off to other kids; therefore, sanitation is a big deal in these types of facilities. Another responsibility that daycare providers have are to enforce rules. When rules are broken, these providers are to then enforce discipline policies. These can sometimes become an issue seeing that these providers are not the parents of the children thus they have to consult with the parents on certain discipline techniques to use on specific children. On the other hand, these providers are similar to parents in the sense that they wash children's clothing and clean up after every child. In addition to all the other responsibilities, daycare providers also have to maintain current, accurate and confidential client files per child. These files are to consist of observations and r...
Children who participate in quality early learning programs tend to be more successful later in school. They are also most socially and emotionally competent. In addition those children show higher verbal and intellectual development during early childhood than children who do not participate in early learning programs (A Parent’s Guide to Choosing Quality Child Care). In order for a child care center to be a quality center they must have an educated staff, a program accreditation, and good health and safety practices. Parents choose high quality child care for many reasons. These programs prepare children for school in which they gain intellectual and social skills. Also the programs are a good opportunity for children because they receive age-appropriate learning materials and activities to let the children learn and grow.
Each and every daycare has their own menu for the children’s breakfast and lunch. Through my observations, I have noticed that the “Don’t Worry Childcare” has a variety of food selections throughout the month. For example, the children could either choose from fruit loops cereal, or frosted flakes for breakfast. The children’s snacks eaten varies every day as well. For instance, the children ate milk and cookies one day, and cheese crackers another day. An example of lunch would be, milk, chicken fingers, French fries, green beans, and mixed fruit one day, and spaghetti, corn, peaches, and bread another day. I observed the children eat ham, mashed potatoes, green beans, and peaches one day for lunch. All those food options seemed very delicious.
Providing innovative learning programmes: This would be programmes that assist toddlers with regards to specific traits and ensuring that it focuses on one trait at a time. There needs to be specialized training for employees: This is intensive training that will enable them to work in the day care centre only if they pass. Being competitive with other child care centres in the area: The day care would have to match or better the market rates for the service in the area.
With all said and done, I think day-care is not a bad place for a child to be after all, as long as no one takes advantage of the situation. This means that the people supervising the children in day-care centers should not take advantage of their parents’ absence to mistreat them, and neither should the parents use day-care as an excuse not to spend quality time with their young ones.