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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?
Question 2: How do you think consistent, predictable schedules help children learn?
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;”?
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.
Question 5: Share one or two ways you include learning experiences in routine times of day.
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?
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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