Day Care Observation

The Kids Learning Centre is a privately-owned day care facility and non-formal educational institution for children up to 12 years old. It is located at the heart of the City of Downtown, just behind The Business Building, a convenient place where parents and guardians can drop off their children safely. It operates from 6:30 AM to 6:00 PM daily, and closes only during major holidays.

Through interviewing Joyce I gained insight into a strong philosophy, leadership style, and how her background experiences have created the director she is today. When deciding to become a director of a daycare, there are two options: opening and owning your own center or directing an established or corporate owned daycare. While I have done much research on owning my own daycare, I have little experience about what it would be like to be the director of an established center. Financial responsibilities and budgeting are also two aspects that are important, but the level of responsibility is drastically different in each scenario. Lastly, legal and ethical responsibilities exist in either scenario as well.

At Children’s Discovery Center the daycare is split into two buildings, one building is for the children in pre-school and the second building is for infants to three year olds getting ready to start pre- school. The classroom I observe is for children 18 months to 28 months. They are about fourteen children in the class with two teachers. The way the class is set up the younger students and their two teachers share one classroom, but the teachers and their toddlers are not in the same room until lunch time and nap time. The classroom has a kitchen, reading area, girls and boys bathroom, activity tables and there is a connecting room for the children to have bible time and free play. The discovery center has three separate playgrounds for the

The place of observation took place at my work, before I clocked in for the day. I work at Oakwood Methodist Preschool/Daycare. I went in to the daycare at about 9:00, which is just free play/ breakfast time in the infant room. The infant room I observed in was a little different than the CDRC, because the infant room is from 7 weeks old to 18 months old. There was not really a place for me to be

In this research article, there are a few research questions being presented. The overall topic however is child care and how that affects behavior and development as we grow up. The first one is discussing long term effects of child care. This involves considering the quality, quantity, and the type of child care. Another question that is presented discusses how each of the aspects I had just mentioned relates to academics and behavior as well. The final question being presented discusses effects from early child care coming up later in life or disintegrating completely.

The three programs I chose to analyze were the transportation program, the Day Away program, and the Stepping on program.

1. Context/ Introduction: For my third observation, on Monday October 17th, I returned back to the Kean University Child Care Center. Just like my second observation I came for my observation for the hour of 10:30-11:30 am. This time in the classroom there was four teacher aides and the teacher Ms. Kierah. When I walked into the classroom I was surprised when one of the teacher aides told me that Ethan has a lot of energy in class that day. She explained that Ethan had a lot of energy that his listening skills were a little off as well. Once she was done explaining this I was anxious to see this for myself. I saw Ethan was playing at the middle table with one other boy Steve. Quietly, I sat at the table to the right of the middle table and began my notes.

For this report, I visited the Banner Home Care facility located at 275 East Germann Road, Suite 110, Gilbert, AZ 85297. Each home visit is conducted within the individual patient’s home. To maintain patient confidentiality, I was unable to visit any patient’s homes so am only able to describe the actual home care site. Nonetheless, I did visit the main hub that houses the administrative structure for the facility. This site has a typical business office layout with cubbies separating each employee. It is a quiet, professional facility with a very friendly, open staff. While at the facility, I interviewed the Home Care Director, Stephen M. Sadecki. Mr. Sadecki described the characteristic services offered, the administrative structure of their

The 24-year-old mother went to the extreme, starving him so badly that he didn't even weigh enough to show up on a child growth chart, weighing only 24.9 pounds, according to WTOL.

For about two years I worked as a child care provider in day cares, after school programs, and summer camps. Children are interesting subjects to observe because they are at a young age, and are full of a great deal of knowledge. However, they have so much they need to learn, and being a child care provider is more than just babysitting. My job has a certain standard I need to work up to, and this includes a whole heap of supervision. I work at a after school program at Maple Glen Elementary School; therefore, the ages of these kids vary from age five up to age twelve. Maple Glen is known to be a fairly wealthy community, and this shapes the way the children behave or orient themselves. Another factor that comes into play is that many children

A fulfilling place to raise your knowledge and understanding of pre-school children and infants is a daycare. Observing a daycare gives you an insight at how these toddlers behave and act when going through the many different situations in the daycare. North West Childcare Centre is one of many daycares that believes in giving children a safe and encouraging environment to grow up in with nurturing staff, that get s the boys and girls prepared for pre-school both mentally and academically. North West Childcare Centre openly welcomes all infants and toddlers from the age of 12 months to five years. The children are divided into three different classroom based on age.

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.

Thank you for your time yesterday. It was great to meet you, David and Patty. Your passion for what you do and desire to do it well are very evident.

When I received my orientation at the center I’m working at the director showed me around the whole center. She told me she was going to give me a tour in the center so I could know how it is. She started by taking me to classroom 1 which were the toddler’s room, then we went to classroom 2; preschool, then we continued to classroom 3; the infants and mobile infants, then to classroom 4; first and second grade, then to classroom 5; kindergarten and lastly to classroom 6; third grade to fifth grade. After she showed me the classrooms, she continued the orientation by showing me the playground, the kitchen, the area where teachers eat, the boys and girls bathroom, the lockers, and the teacher’s bathroom. I felt welcomed to this center because

The reporting party (RP) disclosed her two sons have been attending the day care for approximately 2 years. Recently the licensee's grandchildren moved into the home and consequently the grandchildren are hitting the day care children. According to the RP the licensee's 3 year old grandson has bitten her son Raymond age 3 on more than one occasion. Subsequently the RP child has sustained multiple scratch marks from the family cat. The RP stated the licensee's daughter or step daughter who recently moved in is aggressive towards the day care children. The RP stated her son Dominick age 10 disclosed the daughter yelled at him and told him to "shut up." She yells at all the day care children. The RP stated there was a verbal altercation with