Competency Goal 1 Essay
Competency Goal 1
To Establish and maintain a safe, healthy, learning environment
Functional Area 1: Safe
To reduce injury I always use the saying if you can predict something might happen then prevent it before. Children do not understand that there are dangers all around them, whether its the toys they play with, other kids and their belonging or the equipment that they play on. The important goals that I have are always to put the children's safety, happiness and their needs first. The best way for me to follow through on this is to make sure I keep close supervision on all children at all times. I do a complete check of the area where children are to be playing every day before children come into my room. This means that I check everything …show more content…
Children are not very self aware of what causes others to get sick whether its by someone else or by objects they play with. So any child that presents himself as being sick I give a little more supervision to so that the other children don't get sick. This includes making sure that noses get wiped and hands washed right after, children cover their mouths when coughing or sneezing and again hands get washed right after, and that any one feeling the urge to throw up gets to the bathroom. Around the room on days where there is or was a sick child present I do extra sanitary measures while children are in my care to prevent the germs from spreading. To accomplish this I always make sure that the bathroom is clean and stocked with toilet paper-soap-and paper towels, I have children wash hands regularly before and after meals-after using the rest room (we also have a instructions in bathrooms to tell and show proper hand washing)-after coming in from outside-and any other time it washing is needed, We have a separate specially equipped body fluid kit with instructions on how to clean, sanitize, and dispose of any bio-hazards properly, toys that are played with by any child who is sick immediately gets sanitized after use (if cant fully sanitize yet put up and away form children till can), and bedding for each child is labeled and cleaned at the end of each week. We have a daily schedule that we follow for
To Establish and maintain a safe, healthy, learning environment
Functional Area 1: Safe
To reduce injury I always use the saying if you can predict something might happen then prevent it before. Children do not understand that there are dangers all around them, whether its the toys they play with, other kids and their belonging or the equipment that they play on. The important goals that I have are always to put the children's safety, happiness and their needs first. The best way for me to follow through on this is to make sure I keep close supervision on all children at all times. I do a complete check of the area where children are to be playing every day before children come into my room. This means that I check everything …show more content…
Children are not very self aware of what causes others to get sick whether its by someone else or by objects they play with. So any child that presents himself as being sick I give a little more supervision to so that the other children don't get sick. This includes making sure that noses get wiped and hands washed right after, children cover their mouths when coughing or sneezing and again hands get washed right after, and that any one feeling the urge to throw up gets to the bathroom. Around the room on days where there is or was a sick child present I do extra sanitary measures while children are in my care to prevent the germs from spreading. To accomplish this I always make sure that the bathroom is clean and stocked with toilet paper-soap-and paper towels, I have children wash hands regularly before and after meals-after using the rest room (we also have a instructions in bathrooms to tell and show proper hand washing)-after coming in from outside-and any other time it washing is needed, We have a separate specially equipped body fluid kit with instructions on how to clean, sanitize, and dispose of any bio-hazards properly, toys that are played with by any child who is sick immediately gets sanitized after use (if cant fully sanitize yet put up and away form children till can), and bedding for each child is labeled and cleaned at the end of each week. We have a daily schedule that we follow for