• Briefly explain the role(s) of an early childhood professional in promoting child wellness within the ECE setting.
• Describe some of the methods that an ECE professional can utilize to ensure the promotion of child wellness. Make sure to focus on health, safety, and nutrition.
• Indicate how these methods can be incorporated in the learning environment by applying your ideas to one of the following scenarios. In so doing, select one of the following situations and detail how you as an ECE professional would respond:
• A child in the kindergarten class where you serve as an aide often brings a lunch from home that includes fast food, candy, and/or chips.
• The families of several children in your infant daycare classroom have reported being concerned about the risk of SIDs.
• Shortly after one of your preschoolers is dropped off, they begin vomiting and running a fever.
• Unfortunately, you suspect that one of the toddlers in your class is being physically abused.
• Briefly explain the role(s) of an early childhood professional in promoting child wellness within the ECE setting.
• Describe some of the methods that an ECE professional can utilize to ensure the promotion of child wellness. Make sure to focus on health, safety, and nutrition.
• Indicate how these methods can be incorporated in the learning environment by applying your ideas to one of the following scenarios. In so doing, select one of the following situations and detail how you as an ECE professional would respond:
• A child in the kindergarten class where you serve as an aide often brings a lunch from home that includes fast food, candy, and/or chips.
• The families of several children in your infant daycare classroom have reported being concerned about the risk of SIDs.
• Shortly after one of your preschoolers is dropped off, they begin vomiting and running a fever.
• Unfortunately, you suspect that one of the toddlers in your class is being physically abused.
