Differences Between Home Daycares and Daycare Centers: Assessing the Quality of Care Found in Both Settings
Jennifer Lea Grossman
Amberton University
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER
1. INTRODUCTION ……………………………………………………….3 Genesis Purpose and Methods Significance Operational Definitions Research Questions
2. LITERATURE REVIEW..........................................................................7 3. METHODOLOGY....................................................................................12 Participants Materials Procedure
4. CONCLUSION.........................................................................................15 Discussion of Results Suggestions for Future Study
CHAPTER 1- INTRODUCTION
Genesis
Since graduating with my Bachelor of Science degree in child development in 2012, I have worked for four daycare centers. Two of the centers were targeted toward upper-middle class families, and the other two were designed to aid low-income working parents. My experiences at the two types of centers, however, were all very similar. I witnessed large caregiver-to-child ratios and worked with many caregivers who had minimal education in child development or early childhood education. I became frustrated with the environments that I continued to find in daycare center situations. Recently, I logged onto the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services website and learned about a different type of child care called
A childcare provider is someone who helps the children in their community grow and develop at the appropriate stages by age. Some children spend more time at preschool than at home, and with teachers surrounding them they can be nourished, properly fed, appropriately educated as well as allowed to play and explore. Jennifer Patterson is the ECE Child Care Labs Coordinator for The College of Southern Idaho. She oversees the activities planned for the children, organizes the funding, and most importantly, makes sure that her centers are a safe place to go for each and every child enrolled. The discourse community aspect in every part of childcare is as complicated and simple as it sounds.
Families have many choices for childcare, ranging from in-home care, a childcare facility, an after school program or a
Felicia Bonner is a graduated from Florida State University and is the Director of Child Care Evaluation Services at the Children’s Forum since August of 2011. She originally started with the Forum in 1998 as a T.E.A.C.H. Counselor, and then moving into the position of overseeing the Director Credential Program in 1999 until 2005. In the summer of 2005 Felicia’s family relocated to Bradenton, Florida where she worked for the Early Learning Coalition of Manatee County as an Early Learning Specialist for a year. Her professional interests center on early care and education. She recently volunteered with the Mayor’s Quality Task Force on Improved Quality and Affordable Childcare for All and for the last 4 years has volunteered with the United
Being a parent transformed me in unexpected ways. I found myself wanting to provide for my daughter and later my son the same security and benefits my parents had provided for me. I found a job at University Children’s Center. UCC provides care for children from the ages of 6 weeks to 6 years and I wanted to be close to my children. I worked with all the age groups but found my niche in the infant program. I enjoyed the close bonds I was able to form with both the babies and their families. I took great pride in creating a warm and inviting atmosphere. I took classes to become Infant Nursery Room Supervisor. Once again, I excelled in my studies and enjoyed the learning process. Bringing the information I learned into the classroom was
Studies have shown that daycares do not do a grave disservice to the attachment of children or infants however in the 1980’s a study did prove the behavior between children of daycare and children who stayed home were different. With many parents not having the choice to have one stay at home with the children it is necessary to enroll a child in daycare. Another study conducted in Australia shows that moreover the facility itself it’s the mother’s attitude that relays and is projected onto the child. (Bukatko, 2008) Understanding this
Clients and Client Issues The clients served by The Ontario Early Years Centre include parents, relatives, nannies, and their children who range from birth to six years of age. A significant amount of parents attending this Centre’s programs, whose children range from 12 months – 3 ½ years old, generally do not enrol their children in a daycare facility due to its expensive nature. The fact that daycare services are too costly for some families to register their children relates to the one of the social determinants of health known as a social safety net. This social determinant implies that daycare services are not well funded by the Canadian government, which consequently increases the facility’s price.
Head Start/Early Head Start Program is a governmentally financed project that serves low-salary children and their families in DeKalb, Atlanta/DeKalb, and Rockdale districts. The Program gives discriminating formative, training and wellbeing administrations to pregnant ladies, burdened youngsters from conception to five, and their families to enhance their long haul school and occupation prospects. The Programs incorporate an in number social administrations and guardian inclusion center. Parents are prepared to work and associate successfully with their kids, their families and inside of their family. The general objective of Head Start/Early Head Start is to enhance the school status of youngsters
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Quality childcare programs for non-maternal care have become a routine experience for many families in the United States during the last quarter of the 20th century (Belsky, 2006). Considerable increase in wages and benefits were fundamental to improving early childcare program quality; otherwise, efforts might lead to manipulation of childcare staff versus effectiveness of program quality (Boyd, 2013). Improving program quality required professionalizing the childcare staff through professional development training, higher education, and enhanced skills. Professional development lead to increased wages and benefits; however, early childcare staff experienced wage stagnation or reductions and a decrease in benefits (Boyd,
First, the environment of childcare is based on psychology research.Understanding of the role of the quality of early child care requires consideration of the interplay among child care, family, workplace, and society, and it suggests directions for future research and practice too. As a preschool teacher, I appreciate the result from all psychology research because what researchers currently know about the role of the quality of early child care in children’s lives quality has been measured in a variety of ways across different studies and the research connect with the overview of Measures of child-care quality including the child:staff ratio (the number of children per teacher or provider), the group size (number of children in the setting), and the education and specialized training of teachers, providers, or
Since children of poverty have parents working unstable or jobs that give very low-income, there are many ways that we as a society can help reduce these hardships for those in these difficult situations. With the increasing costs and lack of affordable child care, it makes it harder for the parents to be able to provide for themselves and their family as they have limited availability for days and times they are able to work as well as take care of their children. With these facts in mind, I reach out to my fellow peers to take action and take part in my petition for child care companies to have special price packages available to make daycare affordable for families who have very low incomes.
Childcare is the starting point in your children 's lives. The choices you make on childcare can affect them greatly. It is when they will begin to meet the friends that they will grow up with as they go through grade school. Children need this step in their lives to adjust from staying at home, to staying with other children in a completely different surrounding. There are so many different options for childcare now a days, it is extremely hard to say which is the most beneficial for children. In this paper I will discuss the childcare decisions that my mother made for me, what to consider when evaluating childcare, and compare them to some of my references and see how they are similar and also how they differ.
While daycare/ childcare centers provide a safe haven for young children and left in the care of licensed caregivers, there is more to daycare then just temporary relief for parents. These facilities offer a nurturing and fun learning environment to promote curiosity, innovation, and continuous growth in developmental abilities and positivity in children, and they also have the ability to provide encouraging and engaging activities that endorse emotional, social, and academic development (Phillips 1987). Within these facilities, high quality care calls for each child reach greater levels of learning and can develop skills at their own pace under supervision.
While there are some caregiver’s that are only in the human service field to earn a paycheck and with the lack of parental involvement in their child’s life, it can make a caregiver’s job more challenging. Daycare centers serve as a stepping stone for a child’s future that will teach them how to establish appropriate skills and aid in the development of their cognitive abilities. Positive child interactions not only aid in the development of social and cognitive development, but also in the child’s self-esteem and it lets them know they are important and loved.
Conversely, upon doing the volunteer work, I came to find out that the center is not a daycare at all. People confuse it with a daycare because young children stay here while parents and families attend work or school. The center is different from a daycare because there is a curriculum and the staff are teachers. They must obtain a Child Development Credential within one year of hire and must keep up with a personal developmental ladder. The teachers are certified or trained in CPR, first aid, intruders, safety procedures and child abuse and neglect.