Current through February, 2024
The program conducted in the facility shall provide for
staff supervision at all times and an environment and experiences which are
aimed at promoting the individual child's physical, intellectual, emotional,
and social well-being and growth. This shall be done in the following
ways:
(1) The child care director
shall provide the department with a brief written description of the facility's
program goals and how the daily activities of the center satisfy the physical,
intellectual, emotional, social development, and well-being of the
child;
(2) Activities which promote
physical development shall include:
(A) Daily
opportunities for running, climbing, and other vigorous physical
activities;
(B) Varied physical
activities; and
(C) Opportunities
for children to learn about the health, development, and care of the children's
bodies, including exercise, nutrition, and hygiene;
(3) Programs to promote intellectual
development shall:
(A) Provide that a variety
of learning materials are introduced and are available to the children;
and
(B) Include first-hand
experiences for children to learn about the world;
(4) Programs to promote emotional development
shall provide that:
(A) There are
opportunities for individual self-expression;
(B) Each child is recognized as an
individual;
(C) The child is
afforded constructive guidance and the setting of clear-cut limits which foster
the child's ability to be self-disciplined;
(D) Each child's personal privacy is
respected;
(E) Providers shall not
use:
(i) Physical punishment, or
(ii) Methods of influencing behavior which
are frightening, humiliating, damaging, or injurious to the child's health or
self-esteem; and
(F)
Providers respect each child's cultural, ethnic, and family background, as well
as the child's primary language or dialect;
(5) Programs to promote social development
shall provide that:
(A) Children are guided
in developing and working out ways of getting along with each other;
(B) Providers interact with the children in
ways which emphasize and foster attitudes of mutual respect between adults and
children; and
(C) Providers behave
in ways which help the children develop attitudes of respect for all other
persons as individuals and develop an appreciation of cultural and ethnic
diversity;
(6) The
activities and experiences provided by the program are appropriate to the
developmental level of the children;
(7) The program encourages the development of
the children's special interests and abilities;
(8) The program provides a balance of active
and quiet activities; and
(9) The
program shall provide for the self-direction of the children by:
(A) Affording children opportunities to
choose activities according to personal desires and interests and to move from
one activity to another;
(B)
Encouraging children to do things independently; and
(C) Providing children opportunities to be
involved in decision making about group and individual pactivities.
