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Preparation of the environment in daycare centers at home.

September 28, 2023
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Make your home into a safe multi-age learning environment for a group of 8 children at the same time.

You can create a high-quality infant-toddler environment by planning and creating spaces that support development, participation, and overall well-being. For example, a comfortable chair that is spacious enough for a nursing adult to meet the needs of the infants and toddlers in your care.

Design spaces for babies and young children that guarantee safety and promote health, developed, positive relationships, where you can implement activities in different areas.

Blocks area, manipulative area, music area, dramatic area, language area.

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Didactic Design in your Child Care

April 16, 2023
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Many times we have spacious rooms with a lot of material which we rarely use. We can use every corner to implement didactic design that promotes the cognitive development of children. Remember, your teaching design can be simple or elaborate. It doesn’t have to look like anyone else’s, because what works for others won’t necessarily work for you.

It is important to highlight that an educational learning method is that set of steps to follow to generate a change in the student, so that they can learn and enhance their skills.

It is important that all furniture such as tables and chairs are suitable considering the size of children and preschool children.

Appropriate didactic ideas to implement in lesson plans:

  • Dramatic, sensory, linguistic, mathematical and cultural.
  • This will allow you to do thematic activities per day at different work stations, in which the children can rotate and maintain their constant attention.

1. Corners or an area where you have didactic spaces: Balls that can bounce off while learning. If you have enough space, you could install a small swing, a mini handrail, or a ladder with a slide.

2. Reading area: Large pillows are ideal for a moment of reading

3. Creativity area: Use the table, place a paper and a sheath cover with different temperatures, and seal it with adhesive tape. The little ones can use it to practice writing at the table.

4. Play station for the little ones: A kitchen with wooden toys, a painting easel, building blocks, materials with different textures, are some of the activities that you could implement here.

5. Music territory: Teaching through music wooden musical instruments, multicultural music discs for children.

6. Number space: stacking blocks are great for teaching counting, stacking, sorting by color, and other math-related activities.

Characteristics of the Didactic Material

The characteristics of a didactic material can vary according to the objectives, the characteristics of the students and the study conditions, as well as the infrastructures and access to technologies. For example, a teaching material for the area of mathematics cannot be prepared in the same way as for art history.

Among some characteristics, the didactic material:

  • It can be adapted to be used with or without the help of the teacher.
  • It can be used individually or in groups
  • It’s versatile. A didactic material can be designed for different contexts.
  • It is oriented to motivate. Its design should arouse interest and curiosity for the topic raised.
  • It is a source of information.
  • Establish a work rhythm. A didactic material can mark a rate of evolution or progress in the cognitive development, abilities, interests and other aspects of the student.
  • It allows the student to be able to develop strategies to evaluate, plan and organize their own learning.
  • Proposes a revision or reflection of one’s own knowledge, modifies schemes.
  • It must be available when it is needed.

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FAMILY CHILD CARE PROVIDERS

April 15, 2023
164

Family child care providers take care of a small group of children in their own home, such as a house, apartment or condominium unit.

Are family child care homes licensed?

To ensure a safe care environment, states and territories use child care licensing regulations to limit the number of children that can receive care in a family child care home. Child care regulations (DCF 250) in Wisconsin also limit the number of infants and toddlers that can be cared for in a licensed family child care home to ensure proper supervision and safety. When a family child care home is licensed, the provider must also meet a variety of health and safety requirements, including training (such as CPR/First aid) and criminal background check requirements. They are also monitored by the state or territory to ensure that they continue to meet those requirements.

Depending on the child care regulations in your state or territory, some family child care providers may be legally considered license-exempt in certain circumstances. For example, some states and territories require a family child care provider to be licensed when caring for more than one unrelated child in their household, while others may not require a license until the provider cares for six or more children. Some states may offer certification or registration to help ensure some basic health and safety standards in certain family child care programs. Specific requirements vary by state.

Although some family child care providers may be legally exempt from having a license, it is important to understand the difference between these programs and those that require a license but operate illegally without

a license.

To learn more about what child care licensing is and why it’s important, see the “Ensuring Safe and Healthy Child Care” page.

https://childcare.gov/consumer-education/how-is-child-care-regulated

If you are considering family child care, it is important to know how your state regulates family child care programs so that you can choose the safest care option for your son or daughter. Always ask if a family child care provider is licensed or check your state’s consumer education website or local child care resource and referral agency to see if your provider is required to be licensed.

To find your state’s child care consumer education website and child care resource and referral agency and learn about family child care licensing requirements in your state or territory, select your state or territory on the page “View your States Resources” and review the “Understanding and Finding Child Care” tab.

Why choose a family child care home?

Families choose family child care homes for a variety of reasons, including the following:

Families may prefer the familiar environment and small group sizes.

Family child care providers are able to provide greater consistency of care because children do not move to different classrooms with different staff as they would in a center-based setting.

Family child care providers may offer more flexible hours, such as evening and weekend care.

Families with multiple children may prefer siblings to be cared for together rather than separated into different age groups.

Family child care providers may be less expensive than center-based programs, but rates within your community may vary.

How do I find and choose a family child care home?

To find licensed family child care homes in your area through your state or territories online child care search, go to the “Find Child Care” page and select your state or territory.

For more information on how to find and choose quality child care, visit the page “How do i find and choose quality child care?”

https://childcare.gov/state-resources-home

https://childcare.gov/

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