Describe the importance of monitoring the family child care environment for potential risks.
Monitoring the family child care environment is crucial to identify potential risks and ensure a safe learning environment. Factors such as caregiver-child ratio, cleanliness, and age-appropriate materials profoundly influence a child's learning experience in a family child care setting.Trainings incorporating this outcome
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Proficiency Level
120 hours courses
12 CEUs45 hours courses
Related Outcomes
- Identify and understand the requirements of Child Care Subsidy (POC), Child and Adult Food Program, MSDE Child Care Credential, Tiered Reimbursement, and the Child Care Career and Professional Development Fund
- Identify factors that may influence learning for a child in the family child care environment.
- Describe strategies and experiences to promote collaboration between child and youth care professionals and programs and other professionals involved in the care and education of all children and youth.
- Describe ways child care professionals can display leadership with families and the community.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of schedules and consistency in a child care environment.
- Identify strategies to promote cultural diversity and acceptance in the child care environment.
- Identify the components of a lesson plan for the family child care setting
- Demonstrate understanding of developing positive relationships with child care families
- Demonstrate how theory is reflective in the child care environment.
- Demonstrate understanding of optimal room arrangements for family child care settings and their components.
- Describe the importance of learning centers in the early childhood education environment.
- Demonstrates understanding of an appropriate family child care curriculum
- Describe the components of emergency preparedness in the child care setting.
- Identifies the aspects of establishing a family child care business
- Demonstrates understanding of the ADA and how it applies to family child care homes
- Identify the signs of illness in children and describe when a child should be excluded from care
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