CDA Competency Goals and Functional Areas CDA Competency Goal I. To establish and maintain a safe‚ healthy learning environment Functional Area 1. Safe 2. Healthy Definitions Student provides a safe environment to prevent and reduce injuries. Student promotes good health and nutrition and provides an environment that contributes to the prevention of illness. Student uses space‚ relationships‚ materials and routines as resources for constructing an interesting‚ secure‚ and enjoyable environment that
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Competency Statement 1 To establish and maintain a safe‚ healthy‚ learning environment. Safety Establishing and maintaining safety is extremely important. My goal is to prevent and reduce the number of injuries of children while they are in my care. Preschoolers are not usually aware of the dangers in the environment or of behaviors that can cause an injury to themselves or others. One of the ways I do this is by supervising children at all times. Supervising them by sight and sound even
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CDA competency goal #1: To establish and maintian safe a safe‚ healthy learning environment. Functional area #1: Safe In order to provide a safe environment to prevent injuries I’d do the following: •I would check every toy and equipment the children will be occupying for broken or missing parts often‚ to ensure that they remain safe for use and play. •I would make sure that all chemicals and cleaning supplies are put away out of the reach of children or stored away in locked cabinets to prevent
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CDA Competency To establish and maintain a safe‚ healthy learning environment Safe My first priority is to keep the environment safe to reduce injures. I will take my responsibility very seriously and make sure that there is no child injures at the center. I will make sure that there is no infant left unattended on a changing table. Young infants are only allowed to sleep in their cribs. Not in the car safety seat‚ bouncy seat‚ or any other equipment that is not safety approved. Cribs in our facility
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Competency Goal Two To advance physical and intellectual competence Physical development is very important for children. In my classroom I provide activities that appropriate for children to help develop in the areas of physical‚ cognitive‚ creative and language development. I do believe having activities that appropriate for children in my classroom helps meet the needs of children in physical development. Infants and toddlers grow fast in first
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Goal 1 To Establish and Maintain a Safe‚ Healthy‚ Learning Enviornment There are several things that I do everyday to ensure the saftey of my classroom. I always maintain an accurate child supervision record and do my classroom counts every 30 minutes‚ or more often when necessary‚ to make sure that my head count matches the actual number of children in my classroom. The way the classroom is set up also helps ensure the safty of the children. Our stations are set up to reduse open floor
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Competency Goal I: Candidate provide safe environment to prevent and reduce injuries. Functional Area 1: Safety As a teacher I believe safety is one of the most important things to give to a child besides health and education. A child and adult should feel safe as soon as they walk into the building in the morning. I practice safety in my classroom by placing items for children at their reach and all other items out of their sight. "Out of sight out of mind!" I cover all
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CDA Goal 2 - Competency Statement. I believe toddlers are very curious and want to explore the world around them. They are always excited to move their body parts like hand‚ legs‚ eyes etc. to explore and discover things around their environment. At this stage they are also beginning to refine their small muscle to control and develop their eye and hand coordination. At young age the children’s appreciate growth in their physical abilities. A toddler enjoys rolling a ball back and forth with their
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Competency Goal 6 To maintain a commitment to professionalism in childcare you should set a goal for yourself. My goal in my classroom is to set a standard of excellence with in my facility and to commit myself to the growth and development of each child in offering a positive‚ kind‚ loving‚ and safe atmosphere. I have respect‚ not only for myself but‚ for my center‚ each child‚ and their families. I keep all parental information shared with me confidential. I also uphold all health and safety
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Competency Goal Four: To establish positive and productive relationships with families. As an early childhood educator‚ I have to maintain a positive and productive relationship with the families that come into my preschool. Parents entrust me with their children all day and‚ I make the parents and families feel as much a part of our classroom and a part of their child’s development. To create this relationship‚ I work to build an open‚ friendly and cooperative relationship with each of the children’s
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