Toddler Lead

Description:

• Consistently treat children, parents, staff, and members fairly, with dignity, respect, and compassion, while maintaining confidentiality.
• Establish, implement, and post a daily schedule of program activities that offers reasonable regularity in routines, including snack and meal periods, nap and rest periods, indoor activities, daily outdoor playtime and a variety of large muscle activities throughout the day. There must be physical activity, appropriate to the ages of the children in care, every day. All schedules must include a routine of good personal hygiene practices.
• Know and understand the Mandated Reporter Policy.
• Provide competent and direct supervision of children at all times for the health and safety of all of the children, by keeping them in sight and sound at all times. This includes supervising children from other classrooms when in common spaces or combined.
• Provide for a program of self-initiated, group-initiated, and teacher-initiated activities which are intellectually stimulating and foster self-reliance and social responsibility.
• Provide opportunities for learning and self-expression in small and large groups. Maintain a portfolio on each child, including copies of assessment tools, samples of artwork, projects, writing, and pictures.
• Establish and maintain positive, professional, and effective communication and supportive ties with children, staff, parents, and third party consultants to meet the needs of children and their families, thereby establishing a partnership between school and home.
• Maintain positive discipline methods in class at all times, promoting self-esteem in children in such a way as to help children develop self-control and assume responsibility for their actions through clear and consistent rules and limits appropriate to the age and development of the child. Corporal punishment is prohibited.

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