Order Description
1. Complete the readings for Week Two:
• Review California Childcare Health Program. (2014) Health and Safety Checklist for Early Care and Education Programs. San Francisco, CA: California Childcare Health Program, UCSF School of Nursing. Retrieved on November 5, 2014 from https://www.ucsfchildcarehealth.org/pdfs/Checklists/HS_Checklist.pdf
• Review pp 85-87 (Performance Area 4: Response to Health Requirements) of the CDE & First 5CA (2012). California Early Childhood Educator Competencies. Retrieved on November 5, 2014 from https://www.ececompsat.org/updated/docs/ececompetencies2011.pdf#page=87
2. Obtain permission from your site or from a volunteer site to practice using the checklist.
3. Review pp 1-3 from CCHP (2014). User Manual for the Health and Safety Checklist for Early Care and Education Programs. Retrieved on November 5, 2014 from https://www.ucsfchildcarehealth.org/pdfs/Checklists/HS_Checklist_User%20Manual.pdf
4. You will use the CCHP (2014). Health and Safety Checklist for Early Care and Education Program. Retrieved on November 5, 2014 from https://www.ucsfchildcarehealth.org/pdfs/Checklists/HS_Checklist.pdf to practice evaluating your chosen early care and education site. You are not required to go through the entire checklist. You may choose from the following sections to evaluate the site:
The Facilities section only
OR
The Supervision AND the Sanitation sections.
Keep the evaluation strictly private and confidential and do not share it with the site. It is not a professional evaluation, because you have not been trained and vetted as evaluators.
5. Write three to four (3-4) pages about how the site fared. Answer each of the following questions as thoroughly as possible.
a. What did you learn about the center?
b. What did you learn about health and safety standards?
c. What health and safety issues could be improved at the site and why?
d. If you could improve the health and safety of the site what would you do?
e. What would be the most difficult to improve? Why?
f. What do you think would be the easiest portion to update or improve? Why?
6. Reflection. Write one to two (1-2) pages about your experience in evaluating the health and safety of an early care and education site Address the following questions:
a. Which specific Topics from the Health, Safety and Nutrition Competency did this assignment address for you and how? (refer to the California Early Childhood Educator Competencies https://www.ececompsat.org/updated/docs/ececompetencies2011.pdf#page=87)
b. How did this assignment help you in increasing your competency in Health, Safety and Nutrition? (refer to the California Early Childhood Educator Competencies https://www.ececompsat.org/updated/docs/ececompetencies2011.pdf#page=87)
c. How is this assignment integrated with our readings in Marotz (2015, and the CDE (2011) California Preschool Curriculum Framework, Vol. 2? (Be detailed – tie specific passages in the texts to your work on the checklist.)
7. Print and PDF your check list and upload it AND your paper to the Health and Safety Checklist dropbox.
II. Evaluation
Answer the questions listed in #5 above. Copy the following questions as subheadings and write you answers underneath each question.
What did you learn about the center?
What did you learn about health and safety standards?
What health and safety issues could be improved at the site and why?
If you could improve the health and safety of the site what would you do?
What would be the most difficult to improve? Why?
What do you think would be the easiest portion to update or improve? Why?
III. Reflection
Answer the questions listed in #6 above. Write the following questions as subheadings and write your answers underneath each question.
Which specific Topics from the Health, Safety and Nutrition Competency did this assignment address for you and how?
How did this assignment help you in increasing your competency in Health, Safety and Nutrition?
