Assessment tasks on childcare

Running head: CHILDCARE 1
Assessment tasks on childcare
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CHILDCARE 2
Assessment tasks on childcare
Task 1: pieces of information in relation to topics
Sleep and /or rest routines and environments
 https://www.acecqa.gov.au/resources/information-sheets/safe-sleep-and-rest-practices -
online website
Toileting and nappy changing
 http://files.acecqa.gov.au/files/QualityInformationSheets/QualityArea2/
EffectiveToiletingandNappyChangingProcedure.pdf- article from Google scholar
Personal hygiene (hair, nails, teeth, bathing /showering)
 Smith, V. (2008). Clean: a history of personal hygiene and purity. Oxford University
Press- google scholar book
Meals/nutrition (including infant feeding)
 https://www.who.int/nutrition/topics/complementary_feeding/en/- website
Clothes, dressing /undressing
 https://parenting.firstcry.com/articles/clothes-dressing-and-undressing-in-toddler-
development/- journal
Settling in, arrivals, departures, transitions
 http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/nqsplp/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/
NQS_PLP_E-Newsletter_No70.pdf- Google scholar article
Exercise/ physical activities
 https://kidshealth.org/en/parents/exercise.html - organizational website
Task 2: Caring for a pre-school child
Maintaining a stable and predictable environment

CHILDCARE 3
 Establishing consistency in times of napping and eating
 Teaching children repeatedly on key activities in their lives such as time to play, sleep or
eat
Child’s independence
 Giving the child sometime to be alone after playing with peers
 Respecting what they do things on their own (Sylva, Melhuish, Sammons, Siraj-
Blatchford, & Taggart, 2011).
Supporting and responding to the child’s emotional feelings
 Showing empathy based on their feelings
 Teaching them how to accept the situations
Explaining children about the routine
 Ensuring consistency for different undertakings with them
 Teaching them about different tasks on the routine
Encouraging children to communicate and listen
 Through demonstration to the child on how to behave during any of the events
 Communicating with the children often
Dealing with emotional outburst
 Giving them time to cool down and then attend to the issues causing them behave this
way
 Understanding their feelings and helping them accept the situations
Comforting the child hurt or distressed
 Using stress management strategies like scheduling relaxing activities
 Encouraging the child to accept their situations (Potts, & Mandleco, 2012).