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Staff-Parent Interactions

The program establishes and maintains collaborative relationships with each child’s family to foster children’s development in all settings

Staffing Patterns

NAEYC Project

Staff-Children Interactions

Nutrition

The program promotes positive relationships among all children and adults to encourage each child’s sense of individual worth and belonging as part of a community and to foster each child’s ability to contribute as a responsible community member

Roughly 4 million children under age twelve go hungry each day. Research demonstrates that children who lack adequate nutrition are more likely to have health problems and to have difficulty in school. There are several programs that help child care providers pay for meals and snacks. Below is a description of the major programs that provide nutrition assistance to children in child care.

NAEYC Standards & Criteria

  • STANDARD 1. PROMOTING CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND LEARNING
  • STANDARD 2. BUILDING FAMILY AND COMMUNITY RELATIONSHIPS
  • STANDARD 3. OBSERVING, DOCUMENTING, AND ASSESSING TO SUPPORT YOUNG CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
  • STANDARD 4. USING DEVELOPMENTALLY EFFECTIVE APPROACHES
  • STANDARD 5. USING CONTENT KNOWLEDGE TO BUILD MEANINGFUL CURRICULUM\
  • STANDARD 6. BECOMING A PROFESSIONAL
  • STANDARD 7. EARLY CHILDHOOD FIELD EXPERIENCES

Food Services

Certification Steps

Staff Qualification and Development

If the program provides food for meals and snacks (whether catered or prepared on-site), the food is prepared, served, and stored in accordance with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) guidelines.

Step 1: Enrollment/Self-Study

Step 2: Application/Self-Assessment

Step 3: Candidacy

Step 4: Meeting the Standards

Step 4: Maintaining the Standards

75% of teachers must meet one of the following:

• Have a CDA or 12 ECE or related credits • Working on an AA or higher in ECE or related field

• Have an AA or higher in ECE or related field

• Unrelated degree + 3 yr exp in an acc program

• Unrelated degree + 3 yr exp in a non-acc program + 30 hours of training

The Program Administrator must meet one of the following:

• Option A - Bachelor’s degree (in any discipline) with at least 24 credits in ECE or related field and at least 9 credits in administration, leadership, or management

• Option B - Five year plan to meet 10.A.02

• Option C - Meet Alternative Pathway

Benefits of Accreditation

Evaluation Process

Physical Environment

As with curriculum,

assessment instruments often focus on a limited

range of skills, causing teachers to narrow their curriculum

and teaching practices (that is, to “teach to the

test”), especially when the stakes are high.

• Helps to build a stronger team of teachers, administrators, and families working together to improve quality for children.

• Improved standards for the overall program

• Recognition through NAEYC, including program listing on the NAEYC website in the Program Search section

• Announcement of program’s accreditation in the NAEYC Early Learning News weekly newsletter to programs, members, media, and others.

• Use of NAEYC Accredited logo for marketing purposes

• Attracts more families to enroll their children at program

The program has a safe and healthful environment that provides appropriate and well-maintained indoor and outdoor physical environments. The environment includes facilities, equipment, and materials to facilitate child and staff learning and development. Well organized, equipped, and maintained environments support program quality by fostering the learning, comfort, health, and safety of those who use the program.

Curriculum

Health and Safety

The program implements a curriculum that is consistent with its goals for children and promotes learning and development in each of the following areas: social, emotional, physical, language, and cognitive. A curriculum that draws on research assists teachers in identifying important concepts and skills as well as effective methods for fostering children’s learning and development.

The program promotes the nutrition and health of children and protects children and staff from illness and injury. To benefit from education and maintain quality of life, children need to be as healthy as possible. Health is a state of complete physical, oral, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

Administration

The program administrator is the individual responsible for planning, implementing, and evaluating a child care, preschool or kindergarten program. The role of the administrator covers both leadership and management functions.

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