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COURSE REQUIREMENTS
- Completeall lessons and activities.
- Share your thoughts on the Course Discussion Boardwhen required in the lessons by responding to the instructor’s questions. Feel free to offer positive comments to other participants! You must engage with the Discussion Board to pass the course.
- Complete the Knowledge Check.
- Complete the Course Evaluation.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
PARTICIPANTS WILL:
- Consider the need for carefully planned schedules and routines in Family Child Care.
- Explore the qualities of effective schedules and routines.
- Reflect on ways to teach children program schedules and routines.
- Learn ways to share strategies for teaching schedules and routines with families.
- Complete the Knowledge Check and Course Evaluation.
REFLECTION
Activity: Please respond to Question 1 on the course message board: What times in your daily schedule are most successful? What parts of the daily schedule are challenging for you?
Course Content
INTRODUCTION
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MA DEPARTMENT OF EARLY EDUCATION AND CARE REGULATIONS
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CREATING A FAMILY CHILD CARE SCHEDULE THAT WORKS
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PARTS OF THE DAILY SCHEDULE
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ROUTINES AS LEARNING EXPERIENCES
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STRATEGIES FOR HELPING CHILDREN LEARN SCHEDULES AND ROUTINES
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DAILY SCHEDULES FOR FAMILIES
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FINAL REFLECTION
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Evaluation
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Question 1: What times in your daily schedule are most successful? What parts of the daily schedule are challenging for you?
Drop off to breakfast is more complicated because everyone drops off at a different time the schedule after circle time is easy
Question 2: How do you think consistent, predictable schedules help children learn?
Children need structure
Question 3: In your daily schedule, when and how do you provide, “opportunities for children to have a free choice among a variety of activities or to play alone or with one or several chosen peers, if desired, for at least half the program day;”?
Free play and timed centers
Question 4: How do you respond to children’s individual needs in your daily schedule? Please consider the needs of children who learn differently and need more support, including children of different ages (infants, toddlers, preschoolers, school age children), children with disabilities, children who have experienced trauma and dual language learners.
Doing one on ones while other children do centers or ask children to assist me with helping that individual child depending on the struggle we all support the child together
Question 5: Share one or two ways you include learning experiences in routine times of day.
Talking about germs and cleaning hands before eating
Question 6: Consider the challenging part of your schedule you shared at the start of this training. What strategy might you try to make this a better time of day?
Cut down the drop off time
Ya los niños saben su rutina pero me gustaría relajarnos más. Y la rutina visual es buena idea
Hablamos de los colores Mientras comemos, contamos mientras jugamos
Cuando hacemos circle time, cuando jugamos adentro y afuera de las facilidades. Tienen juguetes a su estatus donde Ellos escogen o wire withered en el momento
Structure in a child schedule is beneficial for the child because they know what to expect brings security and less behavior hiccups
To make it a better time of day I will alert the kids that lunch is coming up and to clean up 10 minutes before eating and wash their hands
Learning experiences through routine is when we doing an activity with cutting and gluing I make them share with each other the materials we are using
I have a 2 year old child where she doesn’t speak yet and she gets frustrated and cries and so I’ve recently printed out picture of stuff that make her comfortable like her pacifier her chewy and her sippy cup so when she feels frustrated and cries I show her what she wants and she points at it to let me know what she wants
3 I provide opportunities for free choice when I put coloring activities on the table or blocks on the floor and they all choose coloring together
2.Creating security reducing anxiety and improving focus
The best times in my daily schedule seems to be when we do free play all the kids playing together and learning how to share. The most challenging is when is lunch time because the kids want to keep playing with the toys and not eat
CUANDO HAGO MI CURRICULUM MENSUAL TRATO DE PONER ACTIVIDADES PARA TODAS LAS EDADES Y TENGO UNA LIBRETA DIARIA PARTA CADA NIÑO Y ALLI RESUMO LA ACTIVIDAD DIARIA Y COMO EL REACCIONO A ESA AC CTIVIDAD Y SI NECESITA MAS ORIENTACION EN ESA MATERIA
Luego de hacer el circle time tenemos instrumentos al alcance de los nenes patra que ellos puedan tomar el de su eleccion y leemos un libro y hablamos de lo que vimos en el libro y hacemos actividades referente a eso
Free choice is best for us in the afternoon then they are all settled in for the day everyone , they have their second wind , I give them choices or they choose so long as it is appropriate.
Morning greetings seemed to be the most chaotic at one point because, children arrived at different times some before breakfast some after .
At one point I was starting my routine over as the children came in , because I didn’t want the children to miss the lesson it took a bit I learned it was much easier to stick with a routine it’s better for me and the children. The children know what comes next it is so important and impactful that I stick with a schedule the children know what comes next.
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