Early Childhood Education Specialist 1: Maine Family Child Care Credential
Competency-based
ONET: 39-9011.00
1
Years
38
Skills
144h
Related instructions
Classroom instruction topics
- Partners in Caring - Families and Caregivers
- Foundations of Health, Wellness, and Safety
- Your Professional Development Portfolio
- Getting Started in Family Child Care
- Infant and Toddler OR Maine Early Learning Dev OR Links to Learning
- Environments in Early Care and Education
- Strengthening Business Practices
- Annual Health and Safety Training
- Other State-approved training
On-the-job training
- Understands the Principles of Child Growth and Development
- Nurtures relationships with children by engaging in responsive, reciprocal relationships with babies, toddlers, preschoolers and school-aged children and youth. Values each child's individuality.
- Understands the developmental period of childhood from birth through age twelve across all developmental domains including bilingual/multilingual development.
- Uses knowledge about each individual child's unique characteristics including developmental levels, learning styles, background experiences, culture, strengths, challenges, and approaches to learning when planning daily routines and activities.
- Assures continuity of care, spending time engaging with each child each day in addition to care routines.
- Supports Children's Social and Emotional Development
- Encourages children to express themselves in safe and appropriate ways to promote self-regulation. Recognizes and labels children's feelings consistently. Fosters sense of security by telling children ahead of time what will happen and through predictable care routines.
- Provides a secure, consistent, safe base from which children can explore, experiment, develop relationships and tackle challenging problems that support development.
- Creates a welcoming environment that is predictable and organized with a selection of learning areas and developmentally appropriate and culturally relevant equipment and materials that can be accessed by all children.
- Advancing Children's Physical and Intellectual Development
- Encourage and promote physical development activities including daily outdoor play. Provides opportunities to process information through sensory experiences.
- Provides opportunities to acquire language and literacy skills through interactions with others, materials and the environment. Embeds children's home language into the environment as much as possible.
- Promotes children's expressive language skills through interactions with others, materials and the environment. Embeds children's home language into the environment as much as possible.
- Provides opportunities to promote mathematical language when describing actions and materials, sequencing, size, shape, numbers, amounts of items and spatial relationships.
- Promotes children's higher order thinking skills through the use of scaffolding, self and parallel talk, concept development, advanced language and open-ended questioning.
- Observing and Recording Children's Behavior
- Maintains clear and consistent behavioral and developmental expectations through consistent and predictable routines.
- Uses a variety of formats to document assessment results to learn about each child, plan for a child's current and future learning and communicate with families in a family friendly way without jargon.
- Assists in using standardized and authentic assessment data to create learning opportunities to advance children's development and goals.
- Maintains confidentiality in conducting, documenting, storing, and sharing assessment information.
- Planning a Safe and Healthy Learning Environment
- Active supervision is used consistently, promoting a safe environment and the prevention of injuries.
- Uses the principles of universal design for learning to initially plan the environment and learn strategies to be flexible enough to accommodate the unique learning styles of a wide age range of children.
- Partners with families regarding children's food preferences and eating habits. Assists in assuring healthy meals and meal attendance in accordance with Child Care Licensing, Let's Go! 5-2-1-0 and USDA's CACFP. Models healthy eating habits, including wiping infants' gums after feeding and assisting toddlers and preschoolers with tooth brushing. Encourages independence of toothbrushing with school-age children.
- Follows cleaning, sanitation and disinfectant procedures to promote healthy habits within the home environment.
- Assists in promoting protective factors to prevent child abuse and neglect; refers families to the Department of Health and Human Services' Child Protective Services as required by law.
- Assists with completion, accuracy and appropriate follow-up of Health & Safety Checklists.
- Practices emergency procedures, including monthly fire drills and practice with emergency evacuations.
- Building Productive Relationships with Families
- Collaborates with families as equal partners in their children's development and learning through respectful, reciprocal relationships and engagement.
- Connects daily with families and children to make them feel welcomed, safe and respected.
- Applies information about families' strengths, talents, culture, preferences, experiences, and expectations about child rearing practices and involves them when making decisions about their child's development and care.
- Demonstrates respectful interest in learning about each family's values, beliefs, faith traditions, cultural influences, family structure and circumstances
- Managing an Effective Program Operation
- Maintains cooperative, respectful interactions and supports the employer's policies.
- Creates, implements, and revises program administration and business practices, policies and procedures that support varied literacy levels, abilities, family culture and home language.
- Demonstrates understanding of and on-going compliance with Child Care Licensing and other regulations or requirements.
- Maintains a system of financial business planning practices for tracking and monitoring income and expenses based on enrollment and operating expenses.
- Maintaining a Commitment to Professionalism
- Communicates positively and effectively using appropriate verbal, nonverbal and written messages.
- Demonstrates effective customer service assuring respect for families' culture and language.
- Takes responsibility for their own well-being and has strategies to manage the physical, emotional and mental stress inherint in the family child care profession in order to engage effectively and empathetically with children and families.
- Establishes and maintains professional boundaries including confidentiality and impartiality.
- Promotes community partnerships and community resources.
- Completes mandated training and maintains required certifications (i.e., First Aid/CPR.)
- Seeks opportunities for ongoing professional growth; implements to improve practice.
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