Eat Smart Move More for physical energizers for school-age children. ... Childhood Obesity Prevention: Let's Move Child
New Staff Orientation – Working With School-Age Youth
Continue your learning – Working with School-Age Youth Healthy Spaces, Daily Routines The following resources include additional information, tools, and methods to implement the strategies you learned in the chapter Healthy Spaces, Daily Routines, from the New Staff Orientation – School Age. Use this handout for future reference and to share with co-workers, families or others in your community. • Keys to Quality Afterschool: Environments, Relationships, and Experiences: A Best Practices Guide • Model Child Care Health Policies from Early Childhood Education Linkage System: – Appendix O is a daily and monthly playground inspection and maintenance checklist. – Appendix U is a schedule for cleaning, sanitizing, and disinfecting. – Appendix BB is a first aid kit inventory • Caring For Our Children, 3rd edition – A compilation of best practices for environmentally healthy early care and education programs including specific responses to infectious disease situations; playground, transportation, and other health and safety questions and standards; and in the appendices, helpful charts of signs and symptoms of child illness, and a primer on recognizing child abuse and neglect. • Pennsylvania Core Knowledge Competencies for Early Childhood & School Age Professionals – School age professionals can access a set of content areas that help define the knowledge expectations for professionals within the school-age field. From the Office of Child Development and Early Learning (OCDEL), Pennsylvania Department of Education and Department of Public Welfare. • Pennsylvania Big Ideas Framework and Individual Professional Development Plan for Early Childhood & School-Age Professionals – Companion to the PA Core Knowledge Competencies for Early Childhood & School Age Professionals, provides professionals with a form to create an annual professional development plan and to evaluate accomplishments at the end of the year. From the Office of Child Development and Early Learning (OCDEL), Pennsylvania Department of Education and Department of Public Welfare. • NAA Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Standards • A Day in the Life of Your School-Age Program – Scroll down to find an indoor and outdoor safety checklist that is a good starting point if your program doesn’t have a printed checklist in place. From Great Afterschool Programs and Spaces That Wow! • ECELS – ECELS, or early Childhood Education Linkage System, Operated by the Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Fact Sheets with current recommendations regarding asthma, diabetes, childhood obesity, ADHD, and more. • ECELS Health and Safety Checklist • Consumer Product Safety Commission for other playground safety links/resources/tools. • Eat Smart Move More for physical energizers for school-age children.
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Penn State Better Kid Care On Demand modules that support health and safety, daily routines best practices: • Get Outdoors. Explore. – Benefits of outdoor play and learning and strategies to increase outdoor time. • The Ups and Downs of Outdoor Play – More specifics on playground safety, policies, and procedures. • Supporting Families in Healthy Living – Strategies to assist families is practicing healthy routines with children that complement the healthy routines in the child care setting. • Food Allergies: Management and Prevention • Food Safety: From Prep to Cleanup • Fresh Harvest: Children Grow in the Garden • Childhood Obesity Prevention: Let’s Move Child Care – five of the six modules are applicable to out-of-school time care: – Introduction – Increase Physical Activity – Limit Screen Time – Offer Healthy Beverages – Serve Healthy Food
The digital version of this PDF has clickable links to the resources. If you have this PDF in printed form, you can search the terms online to find the resources. find this PDF online at: https://bkc.vmhost.psu.edu/documents/HO_NSOS_CYL-Spaces.pdf
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Chapter 2: Healthy Spaces, Daily Routines
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