Active Supervision Sign-off

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Active supervision is used throughout ACE to provide children a safe and supportive environment, prevent accident and injury, and ensure that caregivers are responsive to child needs.

Active Supervision moves adults from passive observers of child interactions to actively, intentionally monitoring, and engaging children at all times

In addition to being focused on children in our care, active supervision requires planning, forethought, and communication, as well as both visual and aural supervision.

Active Supervision involves designing the environment to optimize the supervision at all times.

Designing the environment includes arranging classroom environments to allow children to appropriately engage with materials and to prevent children from running or hiding.

Evaluate the room from a child’s viewpoint to identify supervision challenges when setting up the classroom environment.

Supervision cards follow the children daily from time of arrival to time of departure.

Morning Meetings- Review the environment at the start of each day by completing a ‘Daily Environmental Checklist’ (infoor and outdoor).

Write the daily count of children on the classroom wipe-off board each day and change to reflect the accurate number of children in attendance.

Carefully plan where to position yourself in the environment so you can see, hear, and respond to the children in your care.

Be aware of the whole group even when working one-on-one with a child or a small group.

During transitions, be attuned to the risk of an unsupervised child.

Count children when moving from a classroom to hallway, from the hallway to a classroom, entering and exiting bathrooms, moving from indoors to outdoors or outdoors to indoors, after coming around a corner or any time that visual contact is briefly lost, at the tops and bottoms of stairs, when entering or exiting a cafeteria, and when getting on or off the bus.

Count children out loud, confirming visually with the use of Supervision Cards.

Allow for scheduled planning to minimize transitions throughout the day.

Provide developmentally appropriate transition activities to engage all children, to reduce the risk of distraction.

Directly supervise children by sight and sound at all times during rest times. (This includes when children are going to sleep, sleeping, or in the process of waking up).

During rest time ensure lighting is bright enough to clearly see the children during rest time.

Supervise children during toileting/bathroom needs.

Monitor and guide children using the restroom, hand washing, and making sure other sanitation procedures are followed.

Position yourself to optimize the supervision of children at all times during outdoor play and activities.

Arrange outdoor environments to allow children to appropriately engage with materials, develop physical health, and prevent children from hiding.

Use long-term knowledge and data to anticipate children’s behavior and actions.

Communicate between teaching teams, family engagement staff and adults working with children to ensure that everyone is informed and can plan and anticipate.

Turn off and check cell phones at the door when children are present in the classrooms.

Playgrounds and field trips are considered an extension of the classroom, thereforeall active supervision and child count procedures should be followed

Cell phones should be carried for emergency use only when accompanying students outside the classroom.

Training is conducted upon hire (prior to first day at assigned location), annually (August) and on-going (Mid-year and end of school check-in) on this policy.

Education Coordinators monitor classrooms monthly using the ‘Center Compliance Checklist’.

Education Coordinators, with support from Education Coaches, compile data from these checklists to determine the need for additional large group, small group, or individualized training.

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In the event that a child is lost or goes missing, it is the responsibility of all staff knowledgeable of the incident to immediately notify the main office, then your Coordinator.

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By typing your name, you are signing off that you have attended and participated Active Supervision training and covered all the topics listed in above . You agree your electronic signature is the legal equivalent of your manual signature. *

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