'Daycare Observation Report\r'

'The Kids acquirement Centre is a privately-owned twenty-four hour period c ar easiness and non-formal educational institution for small fryren up to 12 days old. It is located at the heart of the City of Downtown, further behind The Business Building, a convenient plate where parents and guardians tidy sum drop off their churlren honestly. It operates from 6:30 AM to 6:00 PM daily, and closes only during major(ip) holidays. Like another(prenominal) day assist facilities, The Kids education Centre strives to grant the best in tyke negociate.As break away of their plan to deliver quality service of process to the kids and their parents, the decoct has established the pursuance: I. Security, Safety, Health The digest has an open-door policy, allowing and welcoming parents to visit and observe their chelaren at either time. This, however, is a regulated procedure in fix up to provide security for the children, and is implemented under the following mea reliables: * Upon enrolment, the parent/ guardian is issued an individualized Parent acknowledgment Number, which he/she uses to go through the facility’s entry dodge.Visitors are required to present a valid ID with photo before being allowed to enter, and he or she is escorted and supervised by the Assistant director during the entire visit. * The midpoint has an emergency lock-down procedure †strained entry allow automatically send an s undersurfacedalise to the police department. Moreover, the rivet has a closed go familyroom monitoring system, wherein the classroom is fitted with a four-way camera. The system records daily activities for the protection of twain children and care scorers. In addition, sprinklers and combust extinguishers are present in e precise state of the building.Fire appalls are installed, and the perk up department is automatically alerted when the alarm goes off. The check conducts a monthly fire apply and fire alarm safeguard practice to see that the staffs is prepared in case of emergency, and would be adequate to(p) to protect the children should a crisis occur. Aside from security and fire guard duty, the centre is also very particular approximately the health and good-being of the kids. The centre, licensed by the surgical incision of Health, provides healthy, nutritive, and delicious meals and snacks for the children.The daily menu is planned by the school’s chef and the managing director a month in advance. Also, a sick child is non allowed to enter the facility to keep down contagion; and a doctor’s none stating that the child is not contagious must be presented before the Director would allow the child to rejoin his pigeonholing. II. Environment The classroom is bright and colourful †a place knowing to be attractive and interesting to kids. The walls are paint with animal pictures, and the floor is covered by carpets, safety mats, and cushions in vivid colours.There are s ixer rooms and each room is fully-equipped with age appropriate safe toys that stimulate the varied senses and split up gross go and fine motor skills, including building blocks, rubber balls, stuffed animals, checks, potter toys, and mevery more. These are organized on kid-sized shelves, b take awayets, and containers that develop a child’s organization and categorisation skills. The room is a place for kids to discombobulate sport and learn at the aforesaid(prenominal) time. They are cap qualified to express their energy in safety, and also explore, experiment, touch, and suffer their senses using the wide variety of learning materials open in the area.III. Caregivers The Kids Learning Centre is comp move upd of a group of devoted individuals trained to protect, nurture, and educate children. As part of the school’s policy, all the members of the staff underwent a criminal background check through the incision of Public Welfare’s state and feder al fingerprinting system before being hired. They are likewise First Aid/ CPR Certified. The centre is currently composed of seven individuals: the director; the colleague director; quint lead instructors; and twain assistance teachers. * Director. Ms.Mayan holds a Degree in Early child care Education, and has been a director for louvre historic period. She is very partial(p) and neighbourly. * Assistant Director. Ms. Dina also has a degree in Early sistercare Education and has more than 30 age of figure in a childcare facility. She supervises and trains teachers. * Lead Teachers: * Baby Teacher. Ms. Mina is a fourth-year high school school graduate and has 5 years experience in the medical field and 20 years of experience with children. She loves to talk to babies with her calm and gentle voice. * girlish Toddlers’ Teacher.Ms. Fine is currently taking up Child Development Associate Certification and has a ternion years experience as day care assistant teache r at the YMCA. She is consis xt in setting up limits, making sure schoolboyish toddlers depict the toys they are gyping with before they digest another toy. * Older Toddler Teacher. Ms. Georgia has childcare certification from Better Kid Care and has six years experience as assistant teacher at Head Start. She bottomland handle embarrassing children very well. She is firm and the children listen to her when she says something.Pre-School Teacher. Ms. Barbie finished her 2 years in Education and has trey years experience as lead teacher. * Pre-K Teacher. Ms. Nita finished her accord degree and earned her directorship certificate at the beaver Care Centre. She has been a lead teacher for ten years and stupefy been a director for five years. * Assistant Teachers: * Older Toddlers’ Assistant Teacher. Ms. Darlene is in her senior high school and she just started a couplet of months ago. The children are very comfortable and love to act upon with her. * Pre-K Assistant T eacher. Ms.Julia has been in the academe for twelve years, and has been behave in daycare for two years. As a day care worker, she is very warm and friendly with the children. She is very patient and always encourages the kids to always be nice to each other. One particular teacher I observed to be the most effectual is Nita †the Pre-K teacher. Her class is so structured †she follows her daily memorandum, she is very warm and friendly when parents drop off her/his child. She supervises her class very well. Even when she is talking to an adult, she is still able to hear and see what’s going on in her class.She uses the reward system to encourage children to go in in group activities. She always tells jokes and the children love it. She teaches motley skills to her class, such as dancing, singing and storytelling, as well as some Spanish words. Two Instances that I’ve observed most Ms. Nita’s quality child care were: * when a child was hurt plot of land playing outside; Ms Nita immediately and calmly attended to the child and talked in gentle manner. The other one who apparently hurt him was next to Ariana, reflection as the teacher performs first aid. aft(prenominal) Ms Nita was sure the Ariana was fine, she talked to both Ariana and the other child and asked them what really happened, she asked both side very patiently and consequently asked them what they should do next time, both boy apologizes and came to a deduction that it is not nice to keep hands to others. * another(prenominal) instance I observed was that Ms, Nita individually ask the children to check how they are doing both at the day care and at home; I specially remember when she asked Karina and how’s she doing at home, the child dish up that she is sad because her dad went to jail.I saw how her compassion rise up as she talked to the child and gave her a coarse sympathetic hug. IV. Activities The Kids Learning Centre provides a program to deve lop positive social skills and ideals and learn about their world through age-appropriate play, projects and activities. It provides a stable and protected learning environment that fosters a solid insertion for lifelong success. The children are encouraged to foster a love for nature and the environment through the centre’s Agricultural Program. In that program, the children experience how to trail and develop the Earth.Through agricultural lessons that include outdoor lay of fruits and vegetables, each child is able to experience the bliss of caring for the Earth. The children also experience daily interactions that pass on positive self concepts. All programs are class based †Infant through school-age children. The daily schedule for Pre-K is as follows: 6:30 †8:30 AM| Free Play| 8:35 †9:00| Art Project| 9:00 †10:00| Breakfast| 10:00-10:30| Circle succession| 10:30-11:30| Gym Class or Outside Time| 11:30-12:00| Science/ mathematics| 12:00 NN| Lu nch Time| 1:00 †3:00| Nap Time| :00 †3:30| chomp Time| 3:30 †4:00| study Time| 4:00 †4:30| recapitulation Time| 4:30 †5:30| Outside Play| 5:30 †6:00| Library Time| From six 30 in the morn up to eight thirty in the morning, the children are allowed to choose centres (like dramatic play, table toys, or blocks ) of their choice †giving them freedom to select a toy or game for themselves in a small group, at Eight thirty to nightspot in the morning, the children make art or crafts; this natural action enhances the children’s fine motor skills at the same time appreciate the beauty of art.At Nine o measure to Nine thirty in the morning, the children wipe their hands and stomach their breakfast. decade O’ measure up to Ten thirty in the morning is circle time; during circle time, children learn the different season, month of the year, days of the week, the alphabets and numbers and study a particular book and song of the day. At Ten thirty to Eleven in the morning, the children will go outside to get fresh air and to shape up their gross motor skills.At eleven o’ clock to twelve noon the children observe a information experiment or play math games depending on the lesson plan for the day. At twelve noon up to one o clock, the children wash their hands and have their lunch. At one O’ clock to three o’ clock in the afternoon, the children will have their nap time. If the child can’t go to sleep, the child will be provided a book and read quietly or he/she can lay quietly on her cot, Three O’ clock noon is snack time, three thirty to four thirty is review time; where children will be asked what they have learned for the day.Four thirty to five thirty in the afternoon is outside play and finally five thirty to six thirty is library time; the children will read book quietly as they wait for their parents to pick them up. V. advocate and Discipline The Kids Learning Centre se ts rules with the children at the seed of the school year. The child’s role in the Guidance Process allows the child to be confused in writing the class rules. The teachers set sort out limits and are always consistent.They redirect the children whenever possible. They include the children in the problem solving processes. Positive reinforcement and quotation of good demeanor is encouraged. If a child exhibits wrongful behaviour, he/she is removed from the area The teacher then discusses the improper behaviour with the child †what choice would be better next time †and allows the child to cede to the activity as soon as he or she feels she can already manage his/her behaviour appropriately.Should a conflict arise between two kids, they will have a reasonable opportunity to resolve the problem on their own, under the insomniac eye of the teacher, before a she steps in. They will be given the chance to make an move to change any unacceptable behaviour. If a c hild hurts another child, the teacher will attend to the wound child immediately. The child that did the injuring will stay with the wound child and the staff member looking after the injured child, until the injured child is ready to return to the classroom activities.The former will be asked what s/he can do to make the last mentioned feel better. If the teachers see a continuing fig of misbehaviour, the following steps will be initiated: * recall call from the teacher informing the parent of the occupation or â€Å"red flags” that have been observed. * As parents have a major role in the centering process, they are requested to share any applicable information with the teachers to facilitate understand any cardinal issues. They are encouraged to open up when the teacher gives notification of a concern or if a continuing pattern of misbehaviour is observed.They are expect to follow through on any recommendations do by the staff including evaluation by the school district. * Contact between parents and the centre is made at bottom two weeks of the recommendation, * Staff members are expected to work as a team so everyone can be consistent in expectations and help oneself the child understand what behaviour is acceptable and not acceptable. * After attempts have been made to meet the individual require of the child, any child that has demonstrated inability to service from the type of care offered by our school, or whose presence is detrimental to the group, shall be discharged from the school.The centre prohibits any form of corporal punishment or yell at a child, ridiculing a child or the child’s family, blaming, teasing, insulting, name calling, or heavy the child with punishment, withholding food, affection, or positive attention. Personally, I find that The Kids Learning Centre ranks high in the following areas: * Security. The security system and fire safety features are technologically advanced and are sort of impressive . * Nutrition. The children’s diet is balanced, and they receive highly nutritious meals and snacks daily. * Kids.The children are simply magnificent. Although The Kids Learning Centre’s main goal is it to provide quality care for the children, the fact still remains that it is a business. It is, therefore, not surprising that despite its efforts to provide excellent service; much is left to be desired. Some areas that can be improved include: * Teacher Benefits. The centre inadequacys benefits and incentives for teachers, and is not very generous with remuneration and wage increase. Management also falls short in terms of support and encouragement for their staff. * High Turn-Over.Due to the lack of benefits for teachers, the turn-over rate is high. This is disadvantageous as constant limiting is necessary between co-workers as well as between teacher and child. * Discipline. Also, some teachers become overly absorbed in terms of child tally that compassion is ov erlooked. It is ironic because some of the teachers are themselves in need of discipline in order to avoid squabbling among themselves. The centre would benefit most if it could improve on the following areas:* The management ask to evaluate teachers clean and give benefits, incentives, and salary increases accordingly. The management needs to provide a better support system for the teachers; give positive reinforcement, remind the teachers their duties and responsibilities. * The management also needs to set a better standard for teachers and their behaviour, not only towards the kids but also among themselves. * Teachers should have upbringing at least every quarter to help them learn new strategies in caring for the miniscule ones. * Teachers should join a caregiver/teachers association to help them get encouragement from other professionals.\r\n'