After reviewing The Decision-Making Module, something that stood out to me was “Focus on the encounter as a problem to be solved”. This Step 1 stood out to me because sometimes we are quick to blame the child instead of understanding the behavior. We are quick to point fingers or say rude comments. I believe it is super important to solve the problem instead of punishing because we get to the thinking that children should know better, when they need guidance and quality attention. Something that resonated with me was “Change your own practices” because we can make mistakes and we can believe the environment is the one affecting the child when probably is how the schedule is set up and the order of the activities and classwork. We are human and children are all different and we need to keep observing and keep changing, trying new things to help those children. One question is: How can I decide if I need to change my own practices, such as lowering my voice or ignoring a child's arguing?
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Ask yourself and others in your program the following:1. Is the policy practical?2. Is the policy age-appropriate for all the children you care for and for yourenvironment?3. Will center based staff, (or family child care assistant if program is familychild care), be able to incorporate the policy and procedures into the dailyoperations of the program? What training may they need?4. Is the information in the policy accessible and easy to use?5. Does the policy do what it’s intended to do regarding the children’s healthand safety?Page 9 TAChildGuidanceGCC20051107
I feel these are great questions to get feedback from your colleagues, to make sure we have covered everything for the kids safety. I believe the last question is crucial because our job is to teach but more than that is to provide an environment for the kids to safe and for their health.
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Teachers/providers must proceed with the awarenessthat touch may not be welcomed by a child, especially if the child have beenvictimized by physical and/or sexual abuse or witnessed domestic violence
I believe this is crucial for us teacher to know and understand, and the reason why we should pay attention to every child observe how they react and act to certain situations so when cases like this comes up we can identify how to provide the right responsive step so the child can feel comfortable but not bring bad memories.
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The teacher/providermay only hold the child long enoughto remove him/her from the dangeroussituation and when appropriate, returnhim/her to safety
I was surprised to know that we only hold the child to remove them from the dangerous situation and how long is the appropriate holding time ?
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