Competency Statement On How To Establish A Safe Environment For Children

This symbol means that it’s not suitable for a child under the age of 3 years. Adults must supervise the child at all times so that a child does not choke on it due to small parts.

Children in school gain academic and other life skills which engages them to understand various situations including knowledge about health and safety and how to protect themselves from any possible danger. Teaching staff plays vital role in making them aware about their own safety.

Next, the facility has immense safety precautions including locked doors, security cameras, good teacher to student ratio, sign in and sign out sheets, and accident forms. In the Center every door must be locked at all times. This prevents strangers from walking into the building and taking a child, as well as allowing the teachers inside to see the person before they come into the room. Another safety precaution is providing a security camera in every room that includes a built in microphone.Between this and the student to teacher ratio the children are watched continually. The teacher to student ratio is as follows; Infants are one teacher to four children, toddlers

Nutrition isn't always the key with kids these days. Most kids only eat the good food at lunch not the fruit cups or the canned vegetables. Kids like food that is does not look disgusting and taste horrible for example fish tacos. We like to eat tacos, waffles, pizza, etc. Most of the food anyway is thrown away because it looks gross or tastes bad. The lunch menu needs to be fixed along with the lunches also.

Maintain the classroom according to state and program approved standards of orderliness, cleanliness and hygiene

There are many programs to ensure that care is always being taken with health, safety, and nutrition. one of those actions that the school was I volunteer at is to make sure that every classroom has two teachers that the state required per ratios. The teachers should be training in any types of safety did tears drill such as fire drills tornado drills and lock down producers.

Safety: Educate the parent focused on car safety seats, gun safety, and lead poisoning. Stay safe while being outside. Cross the street safety. Prevent falls from window. Never leave the child alone and supervise plays.

“reasonable and prudent person” (LaMorte, 2012, p.327). LaMorte (2012), further indicated that this standard will be influenced by the “age of student, mental capacity, environment and circumstance of injury” (p.327). For instance, you would not leave a kindergarten class unattended with scissors. Despite teacher’s best efforts accidents may still occur, therefore, it is increasingly important to have clear and practical emergency procedures. It can be beneficial to create a school-wide emergency response team to insure that the student’s injuries are minimized in an event of bodily injury. Finally, teachers should be trained on the appropriate technologies in order to accurately report classroom incidents.

It is important that there is a variety of safe toys, equipment, and materials that are age appropriate for the children. There should also be low shelves for easy access to toys and storage. By rotating or changing materials regularly, children will stay engaged and learning will be more appealing. (Paulsel, n.d.). Toddler areas should have specific play areas for different types of play such as music, art, blocks, etc. Numerous books and pictures should also be available in in the classroom for both independent use and use by a caregiver with the children (University of Tennessee College of Social Work Office of Research and Public Service, 2008). Children need to use their senses to explore and learn about the world. Sensory tables can be used both in and out of the classrooms with materials such as sand, water, corn kernels, and potting soil. Children’s learning environments should include a variety of developmentally appropriate materials that encourage child-initiated, active learning where children “explore their environment and construct knowledge based on their interests,” (Freeman, Decker, & Decker, 2013, p.

Cleaning schools in the appropriate way will improve the learning environment's quality inside the buildings. This will reduce the absenteeism rate for students and help boost their performance grade wise in most cases.

Observe the children’s ability to use utensils for cleaning the class and the school environment.

A safe indoor and outdoor environment of a school is very important for the young children safety and wellness. It is important that the indoor environment should be free from all hazards.It should be attractive and functional. The class should have safe equipments. I will arrange a safe and attractive classroom for the 2 year old children because furniture and good indoor environment support children's well being.I will use the furniture that will be comfortable and will have appropriate size. The children will be able to use it easily. The chairs and tables will have comfortable size for eating and working. “ furniture is an important part of the children’s environment.

Do all caregivers wash their hands often, especially before eating and after using the bathroom or changing diapers? Yes, hands are washed frequently and after every task.

Standard building support and cleaning techniques can't meet the interesting needs of offices where kids are available or healthcare is being provided. This requires exceptional contemplations, materials and equipment. Yet, thought should likewise be given to keeping up sensible and competitive costs. A clean, healthy environment will likewise improve your school's image and attractiveness.

“A healthy mind is in a healthy body.” A nice wisdom I always see it annotate at schools walls, but the reality is completely different than what the wisdom pleads for. The school doesn’t provide healthiest food choices for its students as it supposed to be. The school lunch doesn’t have the important nutrition elements which can help the students to be energetic during the day and to have active minds. I found out these three suggestions which I think they could influence to improve the school lunch. Those three suggestions are change the food quality, change the culture of eating, and involve the parents, schools, health community, and government. The students are still growing and they do need a certain healthy food.