Individual Project: Center or Home Care Safety Check and Playground Safety Inspection Report
Due by 11:59 PM on November 3
Children must have a safe and healthy environment in which they can learn. As a result, early childhood education staff spend the majority of their time ensuring that the indoor and outdoor learning environments of the home and center are safe for the children. In this assignment, you will have the opportunity to see first-hand what that entails. Recommendation: This assignment is best when conducted in a licensed center or home. IF POSSIBLE, locate a licensed center or an in home care licensed facility and make your appointment now so that you have time to conduct your safety checklist and playground inspection, and complete your report by the November 3 due date. The Cuyamaca Child Development Center is a good place to do this inspection at or do a search in your area. Remember when you are doing this you are a representative of this collage and I expect you to leave a good impression on the site you visit.
Rationale: The rationale for this assignment is to help you identify health, safety, and environmental risks in early care and education programs (MJC CLO1).
InstructionsOverview: Perform an analysis of the health, safety, and environmental risks of a center or home and a playground using official evaluation documents and then submit a report on the findings.
GRADING TIP: Check the Resources below for an example of an excellent Safety Check and Playground Safety Inspection Report that a previous student did. Method: Step 1: Locate, ask permission from, and make an appointment with a licensed home or center to conduct your safety check and playground safety report card. You may need to provide the home operator or center director with a copy of the Informed Consent Form. Step 2: Perform the safety check by utilizing the CCHP Health and Safety Checklist for Early Care and Education Programs and evaluate a playground by using the America’s Playgrounds Safety Report Card.
If you are doing the safety check at a school or facility, avoid asking teachers questions while they are busy teaching. Your role should be to silently observe what you can physically see and hear. Plan to be in the school or facility for approximately 60-90 minutes. Remember to act and dress professionally because you represent the student body of GCCCD while you are doing the safety check and playground inspection. Depending upon the age of the children in the home or center, you may or may not be required to fill out all sections of the CCHP-Health-and-Safety-Checklist since some sections only apply to infants and some only apply to preschool children. Step 3: Download and use the 16-page CCHP Health and Safety Checklist and download and the two-page Americas Playgrounds Safety Check Report Card.pdf. (Contact me if you are unable to print the checklist or the report card). You will record your scores on the CCHP checklist and the playground report card, and then utilize these to discuss your findings. AVOID sharing the results of your checklist or the playground report card with the licensed home or center or offering the licensed home or center any advice. This activity is only for you to collect information to help you identify health, safety, and environmental risks in early care and education programs. Step 4: Download and use the TEMPLATE Safety Checklist and Playground Report Card. You will answer the questions in the template to report your findings. Step 5: Use your completed safety checklist and the playground report card and the template to create a PowerPoint presentation that:
includes at least three current (within the past five years) and relevant paraphrased in-text citations formatted in APA 7th style. Make sure you cite all sources in APA 7th style format. Use the APA tools listed in the section below titled Resources to help you complete this assignment. uses the Writing Resources Cheat sheet to maintain Academic Voice includes the following eight components: Title Page Slide
Put your name into the correct line on the title page slide. Introduction Slide
Create one slide that includes an introduction that lists the ages and grade level(s) of the children in the home or licensed center in which the safety checklist and evaluation of a playground were conducted, how many children were present that day (if any), and how many teachers were present that day (if any). Avoid naming the teacher(s), home, school, city, or children in the slides. Write this in the Third-Person perspective. Erase the italicized instructions before submitting the assignment.
CCHP Safety Check Findings of the Home or Center Slide
Create one or more slides that list what was discovered in the CCHP safety check. How many items were coded as “Never”? How many items were coded as “Sometimes”? How many items were coded as “Usually”? How many items were coded as “Always”? How many items were coded as “NA”? How many items were coded as “N Op”? Provide specific examples and use the actual code numbers from the CCHP Health and Safety Checklist to demonstrate why you selected these codes. Cite at least one in-text paraphrased citation on this slide. Write this in the Third-Person format. Delete the italicized instructions before submitting the assignment.
Playground Inspection Findings Slide
Create one or more slides that list what was discovered in the playground inspection using the America’s Playgrounds Safety Check Report Card. How many items were coded as “Yes”? What grade did the playground receive and why? Cite at least one paraphrased in-text citation. Write this in the third-person perspective. Delete these italicized instructions before submitting the assignment.
Recommendations for Safety Slide
Create two or more slides to summarize what recommendations need to be made for the home or center based on the CCHP safety check and the Americas Playgrounds Safety Check Report Card playground evaluation AND on the whole child approach by answering at least one of the following questions: How do the recommendations relate to: a) The Mesosystem, b) The Exosystem, and/or c) The Macrosystem? Use the information in section 2 of the On track guide – Supporting healthy child development and early identification in the early years (Best Start Resource Centre, 2015) to write this section. Write this section in the Third-Person perspective. Cite at least one paraphrased in-text citation on this slide. Erase the italicized instructions before submitting the assignment. Reflections Slide Create one slide that lists your personal reflection on the activity that answers these three questions: What did you learn? Were you surprised by your findings? Why or why not? Write this in the first-person perspective (I, me, we, us, our). Cite at least one in-text paraphrased citation on this slide. Erase the italicized instructions before submitting the assignment.
Conclusion Slide
Create one slide that summarizes examples of how you will personally apply the scoring criteria from the CCHP Health and Safety Checklist and the America’s Playgrounds Safety Check Report Card you used to do this activity to ensure the safety of children in your own home or center. Write this section in First-Person perspective (I, we, us, me, our). Erase the italicized instructions before submitting.
Reference Slide
Create one or more slides that contain the APA-formatted reference list for all of the in-text citations for authors whose names were used in the presentation. Avoid adding references you did not actually cite in your slides. Erase the italicized instructions and any example reference formatting lines before submitting the assignment.
Step 6: On or before the deadline, submit only your completed PowerPoint file through the blue “Submit Assignment” button at the top right of this page as either a PowerPoint or PDF file. Avoid submitting the CCHP Health and Safety Checklist or the America’s Playground Safety Report Card. ——————————————————————————————–Resources to help you complete this assignment TEMPLATE Safety Checklist and Playground Report Card
CCHP-Health-and-Safety-Checklist-Revised (3).pdf
America’s Playgrounds Safety Report Card
Informed Consent Form Discover How to Ace Your Written Assignments
Example of an Excellent Safety Check and Playground Inspection Report Annotated Reference List Sample.pdf
APA Cheat Sheet 2020.pdf
APA References Guide.pdf
Writing Resources Cheat Sheet
ECERS (Early Childhood Environmental Rating Scale)