At “Don’t Worry Childcare”, the children and teachers are required to wash their hands during specific times of the day. Both the teachers and students are supposed to wash their hands after using the bathroom. They wash their hands before and after eating snacks and lunch. The teachers make the kids wash up after playing outdoors or leaving the classroom. Lastly, the children and teachers wash their hands after touching bodily fluid including, blood, snot, or spit. I have seen everyone wash their hands at those times. While washing their fingers and hands, I acknowledged the children have sung their ABC’s. They sung them loudly, and happily as if they enjoyed doing so. The teachers observed the children wash their hands to make certain each …show more content…
Standard four point four is about “using developmentally effective approaches to connect with children and families”, and element four says, “Reflecting on their own practice to promote positive outcomes for each child” (https://www.naeyc.org/files/naeyc/file/positions/ProfPrepStandards09.pdf). At the daycare, the teachers met both of those requirements. For instance, I examined the teacher encourage the children to sing their ABC’s so they wash their hands for the correct amount of time. She knew that each child needs the encouragement to be motivated to wash hands for the full forty-five seconds. The teachers sung the ABC’s while washing their hands to demonstrate how the children should wash their hands. They do that to model how to wash their hands properly. The teacher also makes sure each and every child wash their hands after toileting, and before and after eating. They said, “Okay class, now it is time to wash our hands!” Then the teacher went and washed their hands. NAEYC standard four, and its fourth key element were met …show more content…
I will enforce my students to follow the standards of washing their hands, after toileting, after direct contact with spit, blood, or snot, before and after eating, before preparing food, and lastly, before and after using the water, or sand table. I desire for my children to want to wash their hands and stay healthy, so I will constantly wash my hands and tell the children, “I am always going to wash my hands, so that way I can stay healthy. I understand that children learn easier through song, so to connect with the children, I will sing my made up handing washing song. My song sounds like the song, “If your happy and you know it clap your hand”, but it says, “when you’re done using the bathroom wash your hands, and before and after eating wash your hands.” I plan to help my children wash their hands correctly. I will teach them the four steps of washing hands through an image visual and hand motions. I plan to talk about germs and how they spread. I will then do art crafts that relate to the theme of hand washing. Those are some ways I will put forth my effort to instruct my kids about hand rinsing, while meeting the requirements of NAEYC standard four.
During observations, a few questions came to mind. For starters, I want to know if a childcare can lose its star ratings for not making the children wash their
Based on your analysis of the guidance from the Code what do you think "the good early childhood educator" should do in this situation?
As I direct the Tinkerbell’s KinderCare. I would address Sally the teacher assistant as reminding her that washing our hands is a must because even if she is not assisting serving food for the children we should always make sure our hands are germ free as possible, it is a must for staff to wash their hands after assisting children in the bathroom and before handling food serving.
Note: Bathroom and /or diaper change times vary to meet the child’s needs. This is a general schedule and is dictated mostly by the children’s needs and feelings each day.
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The daycare that I visited was Rosemont Daycare and Preschool. This center is faith based and I was able observe the “Duck Class” which was the age group of four and five year olds. I went to observe on February 11th and 16th, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 and the 18th from 3:00 to 6:00. On the 11th and 16th, there were a total of 12 children in the Duck class. At 9:00 the children were engaged in circle time meaning that the children were learning about their bible verse for that month which was “For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son.” The children then discussed what they thought that meant. On the 11th I was present to see the children, the ones I decided to observe were Kali, Roslyn, Fiona, and Brayden. When the children were doing crafts I sat near the counter island in the class room so I was out of the way but still able to see and hear what the kids were doing and saying at the table.
The focus of health care is and has always been, practicing good hygiene, living a healthy lifestyle, and having a positive attitude reduces the chance of getting ill. Although there is not much prevention we can take for some of the diseases but we can certainly practice good hand hygiene to prevent infection and its ill effects. Research proves that hand washing is surely the most easy and effective way to prevent infection in health care. The question for this research: Is Hand washing an effective way to prevent infection in health care? It led to the conclusion that due to the high acuity, high patient: staff ratio, and lack of re evaluation certain units in the health care facilities cannot adhere to correct hand washing guidelines. Hand
Observation is very important in young children because that is how you get to know a child better. While observing how a child interacts with their peers, adults, and how they behave in different settings, you are getting to know the child without speaking to them.
Numerous studies have reported that hand hygiene reduces health care associated infection rates. Compliance to proper hand hygiene guidelines continues to be low among health care workers. To improve hand hygiene performance and have continued compliance over time, the need to find out what the barriers are need to be sought out. These may include poor access to hand hygiene information, skin irritation, forgetfulness, time constraints, a perception that hand hygiene interferes with worker-patient relationships, lack of knowledge of hand hygiene guidelines, and poor habits learned early in life (KuKanich, Kaur, Freeman, & Powell, 2013, p.
Child providers need to know the correct way to change a diaper and appropriate ways to teach children to use the toilet in order to prevent the spread of illness.
In this assignment I am going to describe a child observation that I have done in a nursery for twenty minutes in a play setting. I will explain the strengths and weaknesses of naturalistic observation through the key developmental milestones based in Mary Sheridan (2005) check-list and provide a theoretical explanation to support the naturalistic observation.
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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...
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.
daily practice of washing their bacteria laden hands in water intended for a batch of