Describe how to use the Strengthening Families Self-Assessment for program improvement.
Central Objective: Describe how to use the Strengthening Families Self-Assessment for program improvement in early childhood education and child care centers. Supporting Elements: Recognize informal and formal assessments to plan activities, individualize programs, and improve program quality.Trainings incorporating this outcome
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10 hours courses
1 CEUsRelated Outcomes
- Recognize informal and formal assessments to plan activities, individualize programs, and improve program quality.
- Describe methods to appropriately share and protect information about children and families with other professionals.
- Identify how to respond to accidents and emergencies in a family child care program.
- 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.
- Demonstrate understanding of using assessment and observations for short and long term goal development for ages birth to three.
- Describe positive discipline strategies to use in the classroom.
- Identify the different types of portfolios used in child care programs, and the appropriate portfolio components for each type.
- Describe the rights of children and families and their relation to home visiting.
- Describe new methods to increase the positive emotional climate within a childcare program.
- Demonstrate understanding of using assessment and observation for short and long term goal development for special needs
- Demonstrate understanding of using assessment and observations for short and long term goal development for ages four and above.
- Describe the importance of monitoring the family child care environment for potential risks.
- Identify and discuss of the importance of using a variety of assessment methods.
- Distinguish different families’ expectations of childcare and what they want from the program.
- Identify how to respond to accidents and emergencies in a family child care program
- Identify statistics on child and family well-being in relation to home visiting programs.
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