Title: Identify procedures for staff, parents, and children that help prevent childhood illnesses and communicable diseases.
Course: Early Childhood, Education, and Services I (19153-I) > Section: Providing a Positive, Safe, and Healthy Learning Environment

Identification should include

- immunization requirements and schedule
- state health, safety, and sanitation standards
- food preparation procedures
- cleaning and sanitation procedures for equipment and materials
- mealtime behavior standards
- basic hygiene procedures
- standard hand-washing procedures.

Process/Skill Questions:

Thinking

- What basic health practices lead to a healthy learning environment?
- What are the standards, laws, and regulations regarding a healthy learning environment?
- What are legal and ethical responsibilities of childcare professionals regarding a healthy learning environment?
- How can caregivers promote and foster self-helping behavior and skills in children?

Communication

- What criteria should be used to decide how to provide a healthy learning environment?
- How can the standards for a healthy learning environment be communicated to parents and children?
- How can early childhood professionals effectively communicate with parents?
- What verbal and non-verbal methods and techniques should caregivers use to foster positive adult-child communication?

Leadership

- What can be done to ensure that the basic health practices and prevention procedures are followed?
- What historical circumstances led to the formation of current health practices in this country?

Management

- What steps lead to implementing health practices that comply with state regulations?
- What are the consequences of poor health practices and illness prevention procedures?

Teacher Resource:

- CDC Immunization Schedules