Self-Assessment Health Safety and Nutrition

This self-assessment document describes the health, safety and nutrition practices of an early childhood educator. It includes 3 or less sentence summaries of how the educator supervises children, tracks children between locations, and implements proper handwashing procedures. It also discusses cleaning and sanitization schedules, administering medication, using care routines to build skills, promoting social interaction at meals, serving food safely, encouraging child participation in clean up and following regulations for rest time.

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Self-Assessment Health Safety and Nutrition

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Self-Assessment: Health, Safety, and Nutrition

Be concise in answering the statements/questions in each box. The NAEYC criteria for National Accreditation is the basis of this
self-assessment to demonstrate alignment with the Standards and to familiarize students with this national accreditation process.
Describe how you supervise children adequately—by positioning self to see as many children as
possible, how you are aware of children’s location always, how you monitor by sound when children
You supervise children by
may be out of visual range (as when using the toilet, etc.).
making sure your back facing the wall and making sure you can see all
the children and move around.
Describe the child tracking procedures you use when moving from one location to another (as in when
You do this by counting the children
going from classroom to outdoor play area).
before, when you get where you are going, then you do before and after
you get into the back to the room.

Describe your use of proper hand-washing procedures—list the times when you wash your own
hands, and when you assist children in washing their hands.
You wash your hands before lunch, after lunch, when you go to
the bathroom/

Describe a schedule for cleaning and sanitizing and what it means to use universal precautions—
including cleaning and sanitizing of surfaces, use of gloves and barriers to minimize contact with body
fluids, cleaning spills as they occur, cleaning, and sanitizing toys that have been mouthed or exposed to
body fluids.
You use soap water and wash whatever needs wash done, then you
leave bleach/water on the table for two minutes then clean that off.

Describe your process for being aware of children’s special health care needs, nutrition needs or
allergies, etc. Do you conduct daily health checks as children arrive? If yes, what do you look for? If
no, why not?

By doing a self-assessment on the children.

Describe the process for administering medication or applying sunscreen or other products. What do
you do to follow licensing requirements for administering and logging?
The process for administering medication is to make sure that you
have medication and sunscreen or other products are labeled for
children.

Give some examples of how you use care routines such as toileting, meal, and nap routines as
opportunities to build relationships, language, concepts (food classification, nutrition, healthy
living, manners, etc.) and to build child’s self-awareness, social interaction and self-help skills.
Some of the use of care routines are opportunities to build
relationship, language; concepts are because they give one on one
with children.
Describe what you do during meal/snack times. Do you sit with children and promote children’s
feeding skills and social interactions? If yes, how do you? If no, why not?
Doing mealtime, you should sit with the children and talk with
children because you get learn more about them and what they
liked.

Describe what you do to handle and serve food using proper safety precautions and sanitary
techniques.
You should wash your hands, use sanitary techniques to put food
onto plates.

Describe the clean-up routine—how do you encourage children to participate in daily clean up and
maintenance of the classroom?
You could have the children help you clean up the classroom and clean up
there plates from lunch or snack.
Describe the toileting routine—how do you help children use the toilet following good health and
hygiene practices?

Describe the nap time routine—what do you do to follow licensing regulations and meet children’s
need for rest? What do you do if a child does not sleep at nap time?