Strategies for Creating a Safe and Healthy Environment in Early Childhood Education

Running head: EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
Early Childhood Education
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The preschool teachers have an important role to play in order to keep the children within
a very safe and healthy environment. In order to do that the teachers or early childhood care
professionals have to take many strategies that will be helping them to make a very stable
environment for the children. There are some steps that must be taken by the teachers in order to
create a safe environment. The first step is to keep dangerous objects out of the reach of children.
The teachers have to keep in their mind that they are taking care of children who do not have a
proper understanding of things that are good or bad for them. Thus it is the responsibility of the
teachers to make sure that they are keeping the classroom environment safe and healthy. As per
the opinion of Nikolopoulou & Gialamas (2015), it is important for keeping many objects like
scissors, gum, color pens and other such elements within the classroom environment as it helps
the teacher to decorate the classroom environment. The early childhood teachers have to keep
these objects with them so that they can teach the children in a colorful and innovative way.
However Hay & Reissenberger (2016) has argued that there is also a major threat that the
children might face from these small objects, there is the risk if the children taking up these
objects and swallowing them unknowingly.
The teachers have to make sure that they are keeping all the sharp objects out of the reach
of the children. The knives and scissors or any other sharp objects ht might be needed in the art
and craft classes have to be kept out of the reach of the children. It is the duty of the teachers to
make sure that they are taking these art and craft sessions with proper care so that the children do
not run the risk of suffering any kinds of injuries (Kermani & Aldemir, 2015). The early
childhood teachers must be developing proper time management skills so that they can devote
time in taking care of the safety levels of the products that they will be adding in their classroom

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set up. Before adding them in their classroom shelves they have to make sure that the safety
levels of the products are properly measured before they are kept in the classes. The children
must get proper training from their teachers' regarding the ways in which they have to handle
these products.
The other important habit that must be followed by the early childhood teacher is the
hygiene factors, In other words, the the teacher has to make sure that he or she is washing their
hands on a regular basis. This is a very basic habit. However, preschoolers are often not very
accustomed to these healthy habits. Thus it is the duty of the teachers to make sure that they are
being capable of setting a good example by initialing healthy habits within their children. The
teachers must teach their students' right at a very age to wash their hands before any of their
mealtimes and during the bathroom breaks. This will be helping the students to learn about safe
and healthy habits right from an early age (McCoy et al., 2017).
Practicing emergency plans is of utmost importance. This is because the emergency plans
help in developing a sense of emergency among the students. It is the responsibility of the
teachers to make sure that they are teaching their students to be responsible at every single
moment. This will help the children to have the idea of a safety alert system within their minds.
Apart from this, the students will be able to develop a self-defense system and will know the
difference between the right and the wrong (Phillips et al., (2016).
There are some skills and strategies needed by the early childhood teachers in order to
induce a safe, healthy and nutritious environment for the students. A teacher must be patient. The
teacher has to keep in mind that if she loses her calm it will be very bad for the children. Thus it