Common use of Child Guidance Clause in Contracts

Child Guidance. Contractors must write a child guidance policy which incorporates this ECEAP Standard. Staff must use positive guidance techniques to help children learn to get along with each other, which include:  Maintaining positive relationships with children (E-7).  Adapting the environment, routine, and activities to the needs of enrolled children.  Establishing consistent, reasonable expectations.  Supervising children’s activities.  Foreshadowing events and expectations by letting children know what will happen next.  Modeling and teaching social skills, such as turn-taking, cooperation, waiting, treating others kindly, and conflict resolution.  Modeling and teaching emotional skills, such as recognizing feelings, expressing them appropriately, accepting others’ feelings, and controlling impulses to act out feelings.  Involving children in defining simple, clear classroom limits. Staff must use positive guidance techniques to support classroom limits and maintain safety, such as:  Coaching appropriate behavior.  Offering choices.  Redirecting to an activity that matches the child’s energy level.  Teacher-supported cool down/time-out as a last resort. If restraint is used, contractors must meet all of the following criteria:  Staff have received training in limited restraint procedures.  Staff restrain a child only as a last resort to prevent serious injury to persons, serious property damage, or to obtain possession of a dangerous object.  Staff do not restrain a child longer than it takes to achieve the safety goal.  Staff do not use restraint as punishment or to force a child to comply.  Staff document all instances of restraint.  Staff notify the parent of the restrained child following the intervention. Contractor’s guidance policy must prohibit any person on the premises from using:  Corporal punishment, including any means of inflicting physical pain or causing bodily harm to the child.  Holding, grabbing, or moving the child in an aggressive manner to cause them to comply.  Verbal abuse, such as yelling, shouting, name calling, shaming, making derogatory remarks about a child or the child's family, or using language that threatens, humiliates, or frightens a child.  The use of a physical restraint method injurious to the child or any closed or locked time-out room.  Using or withholding food or liquids as punishment or reward.

Appears in 6 contracts

Samples: Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program Agreement, Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program Agreement, Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program Agreement

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Child Guidance. Contractors must write a child guidance policy which incorporates this ECEAP Standard. Staff must use positive guidance techniques to help children learn to get along with each other, which include: Maintaining positive relationships with children (E-7). Adapting the environment, routine, and activities to the needs of enrolled children. Establishing consistent, reasonable expectations. Supervising children’s activities. Foreshadowing events and expectations by letting children know what will happen next. Modeling and teaching social skills, such as turn-taking, cooperation, waiting, treating others kindly, and conflict resolution. Modeling and teaching emotional skills, such as recognizing feelings, expressing them appropriately, accepting others’ feelings, and controlling impulses to act out feelings. Involving children in defining simple, clear classroom limits. Staff must use positive guidance techniques to support classroom limits and maintain safety, such as: Coaching appropriate behavior. Offering choices. Redirecting to an activity that matches the child’s energy level. Teacher-supported cool down/time-out as a last resort. If restraint is used, contractors must meet all of the following criteria: Staff have received training in limited restraint procedures. Staff restrain a child only as a last resort to prevent serious injury to persons, serious property damage, or to obtain possession of a dangerous object. Staff do not restrain a child longer than it takes to achieve the safety goal. Staff do not use restraint as punishment or to force a child to comply. Staff document all instances of restraint. Staff notify the parent of the restrained child following the intervention. Contractor’s guidance policy must prohibit any person on the premises from using: Corporal punishment, including any means of inflicting physical pain or causing bodily harm to the child. Holding, grabbing, or moving the child in an aggressive manner to cause them to comply. Verbal abuse, such as yelling, shouting, name calling, shaming, making derogatory remarks about a child or the child's family, or using language that threatens, humiliates, or frightens a child. The use of a physical restraint method injurious to the child or any closed or locked time-out room. Using or withholding food or liquids as punishment or reward.

Appears in 5 contracts

Samples: Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program Agreement, Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program Agreement, Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program Agreement

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