Title: Demonstrate strategies designed to teach children personal health, safety, and sanitation habits.
Course: Early Childhood, Education, and Services I (19153-I) > Section: Providing a Positive, Safe, and Healthy Learning Environment

Demonstration should include

- appropriate eating practices
- USDA MyPlate guidelines nutritious snacks, meals, and beverages
- state and local regulations pertaining to health, safety, and the physical space
- identification of instruction for children in health, safety, and sanitation procedures
- instruction for children in maintaining health, safety, and sanitation
- incorporating universal precautions/infection control: bloodborne pathogens
- diapering and potty training guidelines and appropriate hand washing techniques.

Process/Skill Questions:

Thinking

- What criteria should be used to determine strategies to teach health, safety, and sanitation habits?
- What are the developmental needs of the children? How might strategies be adapted to meet the needs of different children?
- Whose primary responsibility is it to teach children health, safety, and sanitation habits—parents or childcare professionals?

Communication

- What strategies should be used to promote cooperation between parents and childcare professionals in the teaching of health, safety, and sanitation habits?
- What beliefs, actions, or conditions might limit cooperation?
- What strategies should be used to teach children good nutritional habits? What constitutes good nutrition?

Leadership

- What skills are needed to implement strategies that teach children health, safety, and sanitation habits?
- How might specific strategies help and/or harm children?
- How can parents be involved in teaching children healthy, safety, and sanitation habits?

Management

- What management procedures are required to implement strategies to teach children health, safety, and sanitation habits?
- What consequences may result from failure to secure the cooperation of parents when implementing strategies to teach children health, safety, and sanitation habits?
- How are universal precautions implemented in an early childhood learning environment?
- What resources and practices do early childhood professionals use to recognize symptoms of common childhood illnesses and diseases?

Teacher Resources:

- Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP)
- ChooseMyPlate