Health and Safety Checklist

    Order Description     1. Complete the readin" rel="nofollow">ings 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 Nursin" rel="nofollow">ing. 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" rel="nofollow">in permission from your site or from a volunteer site to practice usin" rel="nofollow">ing 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 evaluatin" rel="nofollow">ing your chosen early care and education site. You are not required to go through the entire checklist. You may choose from the followin" rel="nofollow">ing 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 train" rel="nofollow">ined and vetted as evaluators. 5. Write three to four (3-4) pages about how the site fared. Answer each of the followin" rel="nofollow">ing 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 thin" rel="nofollow">ink would be the easiest portion to update or improve? Why?   6. Reflection. Write one to two (1-2) pages about your experience in" rel="nofollow">in evaluatin" rel="nofollow">ing the health and safety of an early care and education site Address the followin" rel="nofollow">ing 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" rel="nofollow">in in" rel="nofollow">increasin" rel="nofollow">ing your competency in" rel="nofollow">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 in" rel="nofollow">integrated with our readin" rel="nofollow">ings in" rel="nofollow">in Marotz (2015, and the CDE (2011) California Preschool Curriculum Framework, Vol. 2? (Be detailed – tie specific passages in" rel="nofollow">in the texts to your work on the checklist.)   7. Prin" rel="nofollow">int 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" rel="nofollow">in #5 above. Copy the followin" rel="nofollow">ing questions as subheadin" rel="nofollow">ings 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 thin" rel="nofollow">ink would be the easiest portion to update or improve? Why?     III. Reflection Answer the questions listed in" rel="nofollow">in #6 above. Write the followin" rel="nofollow">ing questions as subheadin" rel="nofollow">ings 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" rel="nofollow">in in" rel="nofollow">increasin" rel="nofollow">ing your competency in" rel="nofollow">in Health, Safety and Nutrition?