Early Childhood Education Specialist 1: Maine Infant Toddler Credential
Competency-based
ONET: 39-9011.00
1
Years
38
Skills
106h
Related instructions
Classroom instruction topics
- Partners in Caring - Families and Caregivers
- Foundations of Health, Wellness, and Safety
- Your Professional Development Portfolio
- Caring for Infants, Toddlers & Their Families
- Social and Emotional Learning Birth to Age 5 OR Introduction to Infant Mental Health
- Health and Safety Training
- Other State-approved training
On-the-job training
- Understands the Principles of Child Growth and Development
- Nurtures close, secure and trusting relationships with all children. Uses children's names and engages in reciprocal interactions with sounds and facial expressions.
- Assists in maintaining an inclusive environment for all children. Carries out activities that support children's IFSP goals, if applicable.
- Supervises and facilitates children's involvement in all learning environments. Allows children to safely experience active exploration of self, objects, people and surroundings.
- Maintains a positive classroom climate and is responsive to children's curiosity and cues.
- 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.
- Observing and Recording Children's Behavior
- Maintains clear and consistent behavioral and developmental expectations through consistent and predictable routines.
- Assists in curriculum planning to develop clear learning objectives for optimal learning. Follows each child's development and by scaffolding next steps.
- 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.
- 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.
- Assists with required emergency procedures.
- 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.
- Contributes to effective, purposeful and respectful team communications to promote continuous program improvement.
- Demonstrates understanding of and on-going compliance with Child Care Licensing and other regulations or requirements.
- Maintaining a Commitment to Professionalism
- Communicates positively and effectively using appropriate verbal, nonverbal and written messages.
- Establishes and maintains professional boundaries including confidentiality and impartiality.
- Adheres to employer and collaborative partner policies, procedures and guidance.
- Promotes community partnerships and community resources.
- Effectively utilizes supervisory support and technical resources to improve competence.
- Assesses self, values and ethics as they impact work with families.
- Completes mandated training and maintains required certifications (i.e., Infant Toddler CPR and Pediatric First Aid.)
- Seeks opportunities for ongoing professional growth; implements to improve practice and share with colleagues as appropriate
- Seeks opportunities for ongoing professional growth. Implements to improve practice and share with colleagues as appropriate.
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