ECE 117 - Health and Safety

1. Document personal definition on ways teachers can protect the health and safety of young children. [EXPLORE]
2. Demonstrate ways of integrating goals for health and safety into an early childhood education curriculum and distinguish use of different teaching strategies to integrate health and safety in a classroom curriculum. [ACT]
3. Document personal definition on ways teachers can protect the health and safety of young children without limiting / inhibiting children’s need to explore, discover, and be independent learners. [EXPLORE ]
4. Demonstrate the skills to plan and evaluate policies of emergency preparedness (fire, earthquake, lock-down) in a child-focused manner. [COMMUNICATE]
5. Demonstrate skills at identifying how to reduce accidents and the spread of illness, the role of observation and taking action, and indicators of healthy/unhealthy characteristics of typical childhood diseases. [ACT]
6. Document personal definition of how a teachers’ own valuing of concerns for safe and healthy practices will influence decisions and actions. [EXPLORE]