Unit 5: Child Development

• Reviewing stages of child development
• Understanding the importance of recognizing and supporting each individual child’s pace of development.
• Reviewing appropriate steps to take when concern arises about a child’s development.

Unit 6: Child Guidance

• Understanding the purpose of child guidance.
• Recognizing that inappropriate behaviours are a normal part of children’s development.
• Identifying reasons why children sometimes behave in inappropriate ways.
• Developing a range of appropriate child guidance techniques.
• Understanding the importance of communication with parents around child guidance matters.

Unit 7: Helping Children Grow and Develop

• Reviewing caregiver’s role in supporting children’s development.
• Understanding the importance of children’s social and emotional development.
• Developing approaches that support children’s healthy social and emotional development.
• Developing approaches to encourage children’s feeling of acceptance and belonging.

Unit 8: The Child Care Day

• Recognizing the range of essential and desirable activities required to meet the needs of the child care children and their families, the caregiver’s family and the caregiver.
• Developing strategies that help balance the range of needs of all involved.
• Formulating daily routines that meet the caregiver’s individual circumstances.

Unit 9: The Business of Family Child Care

• Recognizing the importance of good business practice in operating a successful family child care program.
• Reviewing regulatory and legal requirements, including the reporting of income for tax purposes.
• Understanding the importance of utilizing written child care agreements and related forms with client families.
• Recognizing the importance of maintaining appropriate child related, administrative and financial records.
• Recognizing the importance of maintaining adequate liability insurance.
• Understanding calculations of income and expenses for the setting of fees and the preparation of income tax returns.
• Reviewing methods of determining child care needs in the community and of filling vacancies.

Unit 10: Starting Off Right

• Identifying factors that help to establish good relationships between parents and caregivers.
• Recognizing that parents have needs, wishes, feelings and concerns regarding their child care arrangements.
• Identifying what parents and caregivers need to know before coming to a decision about beginning a child care arrangement.
• Identifying strategies for initial contacts and preplacement interviews with parents.
• Identifying strategies to ease the child’s adjustment before and after care begins.

Unit 11: Partnerships with Parents

• Understanding the benefits of positive parent and caregiver partnerships.
• Recognizing the importance of communication in building and maintaining partnerships.
• Developing strategies and techniques to encourage parent – caregiver communications.
• Identifying strategies for encouraging parental involvement.
• Reviewing problem-solving techniques.

Unit 12: Connecting with your Community

• Understanding benefits to children and caregivers of active community involvement.
• Identifying a range of possible resources and services in the community for children and caregivers.
• Reviewing strategies for undertaking successful outings with children.

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