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About Me
- MC Santana
- I am a positive person with a lot of energy. I like to meet different people and enjoy learning about other communities and places. I love to travel. I usually travel abroad once or twice a year.
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ReplyDeletehttp://s18.photobucket.com/albums/b147/arlee0808/?action=view¤t=tinyknights.jpg
ReplyDeleteOkay photobucket is an unnecessarily difficult website, I do not recommend it. Here is a logo we can work with, it is the original Knights of Pegasus logo. Has a big feathery plume which lends to a female gender trait, and the simple line drawing is simple, childlike. Who's an artist and can revamp it to our liking consensus?
ReplyDeleteWhere can I see the logo? It sounds good.
ReplyDeleteOK. I can't find a UCF Campus Master Plan for any other year besides 2005 and 2010. Perhaps it's only done every five years?
ReplyDeleteCHILD CARE WORKERS take care of babies, young children, and older children, usually while the children’s parents or guardians are at work or away for other reasons. They work individually with one child or with groups of children to create a safe, comfortable, and creative environment in which children can mature and learn.
ReplyDeleteSome of the important skills, knowledge, and abilities for Child Care Workers include:
Speaking - Talking to others to effectively convey information.
Service - Actively looking for ways to help people.
Listening - Listening to what other people are saying and asking questions as appropriate.
Instructing - Teaching others how to do something.
Monitoring - Assessing how well one is doing when learning or doing something.
Learning Strategies - Using multiple approaches when learning or teaching new things.
Problem Identification - Identifying the nature of problems.
Oral Expression - The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
Problem Sensitivity - The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
Starting a Daycare in Florida
Department of Children & Families
Child Care Regulation Office
1317 Winewood Blvd. Building
6 Room 389A
Tallahassee, FL 32399-0700
Phone: 850-488-4900
Fax: 850-488-9584
Web site: http://www.myflorida.com/childcare/
Requirements: http://www.dcf.state.fl.us/childcare/licensing.shtml
http://www.dcf.state.fl.us/programs/childcare/laws.shtml
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http://eclkc.ohs.acf.hhs.gov/hslc/Early%20Head%20Start
402.302 Definitions.--
ReplyDelete(1) "Child care" means the care, protection, and supervision of a child, for a period of less than 24 hours a day on a regular basis, which supplements parental care, enrichment, and health supervision for the child, in accordance with his or her individual needs, and for which a payment, fee, or grant is made for care.
(2) "Child care facility" includes any child care center or child care arrangement which provides child care for more than five children unrelated to the operator and which receives a payment, fee, or grant for any of the children receiving care, wherever operated, and whether or not operated for profit. The following are not included:
(a) Public schools and nonpublic schools and their integral programs, except as provided in s. 402.3025;
(b) Summer camps having children in full-time residence;
(c) Summer day camps;
(d) Bible schools normally conducted during vacation periods; and
(e) Operators of transient establishments, as defined in chapter 509, which provide child care services solely for the guests of their establishment or resort, provided that all child care personnel of the establishment are screened according to the level 2 screening requirements of chapter 435.
(3) "Child care personnel" means all owners, operators, employees, and volunteers working in a child care facility. The term does not include persons who work in a child care facility after hours when children are not present or parents of children in Head Start. For purposes of screening, the term includes any member, over the age of 12 years, of a child care facility operator's family, or person, over the age of 12 years, residing with a child care facility operator if the child care facility is located in or adjacent to the home of the operator or if the family member of, or person residing with, the child care facility operator has any direct contact with the children in the facility during its hours of operation. Members of the operator's family or persons residing with the operator who are between the ages of 12 years and 18 years shall not be required to be fingerprinted but shall be screened for delinquency records. For purposes of screening, the term shall also include persons who work in child care programs which provide care for children 15 hours or more each week in public or nonpublic schools, summer day camps, family day care homes, or those programs otherwise exempted under s. 402.316. The term does not include public or nonpublic school personnel who are providing care during regular school hours, or after hours for activities related to a school's program for grades kindergarten through 12. A volunteer who assists on an
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ReplyDeleteintermittent basis for less than 40 hours per month is not included in the term "personnel" for the purposes of screening and training, provided that the volunteer is under direct and constant supervision by persons who meet the personnel requirements of s. 402.305(2). Students who observe and participate in a child care facility as a part of their required coursework shall not be considered child care personnel, provided such observation and participation are on an intermittent basis and the students are under direct and constant supervision of child care personnel.
(4) "Department" means the Department of Children and Family Services.
(5) "Drop-in child care" means child care provided occasionally in a child care facility in a shopping mall or business establishment where a child is in care for no more than a 4-hour period and the parent remains on the premises of the shopping mall or business establishment at all times. Drop-in child care arrangements shall meet all requirements for a child care facility unless specifically exempted.
(6) "Evening child care" means child care provided during the evening hours and may encompass the hours of 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. to accommodate parents who work evenings and late-night shifts.
(9) "Indoor recreational facility" means an indoor commercial facility which is established for the primary purpose of entertaining children in a planned fitness environment through equipment, games, and activities in conjunction with food service and which provides child care for a particular child no more than 4 hours on any one day. An indoor recreational facility must be licensed as a child care facility under s. 402.305, but is exempt from the minimum outdoor-square-footage-per-child requirement specified in that section, if the indoor recreational facility has, at a minimum, 3,000 square feet of usable indoor floor space.
(10) "Local licensing agency" means any agency or individual designated by the county to license child care facilities.
(11) "Operator" means any onsite person ultimately responsible for the overall operation of a child care facility, whether or not he or she is the owner or administrator of such facility.
(12) "Owner" means the person who is licensed to operate the child care facility.
(13) "Screening" means the act of assessing the background of child care personnel and volunteers and includes, but is not limited to, employment history checks, local criminal records checks through local law enforcement agencies, fingerprinting for all purposes and checks in this subsection, statewide criminal records checks through the Department of Law Enforcement, and federal criminal records checks through the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
(14) "Secretary" means the Secretary of Children and Family Services.
(15) "Substantial compliance" means that level of adherence which is sufficient to safeguard the health, safety, and well-being of all children under care. Substantial compliance is greater than minimal adherence but not to the level of absolute adherence. Where a violation or variation is identified as the type which impacts, or can be reasonably expected within 90 days to impact, the health, safety, or well-being of a child, there is no substantial compliance.
(16) "Weekend child care" means child care provided between the hours of 6 p.m. on Friday and 6 a.m. on Monday.
(4) STAFF-TO-CHILDREN RATIO.--
ReplyDelete(a) Minimum standards for the care of children in a licensed child care facility as established by rule of the department must include:
1. For children from birth through 1 year of age, there must be one child care personnel for every four children.
2. For children 1 year of age or older, but under 2 years of age, there must be one child care personnel for every six children.
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3. For children 2 years of age or older, but under 3 years of age, there must be one child care personnel for every 11 children.
4. For children 3 years of age or older, but under 4 years of age, there must be one child care personnel for every 15 children.
5. For children 4 years of age or older, but under 5 years of age, there must be one child care personnel for every 20 children.
6. For children 5 years of age or older, there must be one child care personnel for every 25 children.
7. When children 2 years of age and older are in care, the staff-to-children ratio shall be based on the age group with the largest number of children within the group.
(b) This subsection does not apply to nonpublic schools and their integral programs as defined in s. 402.3025(2)(d)1. In addition, an individual participating in a community service program activity under s. 445.024(1)(e), or a work experience activity under s. 445.024(1)(f), at a child care facility may not be considered in calculating the staff-to-children ratio.
BABY GATOR
ReplyDeleteBaby Gator Child Development Centers offer high quality care to children ages 6 weeks to five years. Children grow and learn in a safe and healthy environment with a caring and attentive staff of well-trained early childhood educators. Curriculum is designed to encourage children to experience the world around them. Baby Gator addresses the needs of all children and fosters growth in social, behavioral, cognitive, and physical skills and early literacy skills.
Baby Gator has been accredited by the National Association for the Education of young Children (NAEYC) since 1992.
***http://www.babygator.ufl.edu/about/alumni.htm
http://education-portal.com/day_care_certification.html
How Much Do You Charge to Make a Profit?
Profit has been defined as the financial reward for the effort expended in operating a business. There are at least four criteria to use to determine a price for your service:
What you think people will pay.
What other child care centers are charging for a similar service.
An estimate of costs and labor.
A combination of your costs, both direct and indirect, an hourly wage, and profit.
http://ohioline.osu.edu/cd-fact/1002.html
http://www.iroffice.ucf.edu/ipeds/ipeds09-10/IPEDS-Enrollment2009.pdf
ReplyDeleteLink to a PDF file that includes Enrollment Data for Fall 2010, includes demographics including race/age/sex.
Vision:
ReplyDeleteOur vision is to establish an infrastructure that will support a comprehensive childcare facility that will preclude to the current exceptionally developed Creative School, and offer other programs such as summer camps and semester vacation childcare.
How do we profit and provide affordable day care for students and faculty?
The Little Knights program can be implemented in an affordable and profitable way through community partnerships with local and national businesses.
Also, through grant funding such as Early Head Start,
Part of the plan is fees:
In ten years our programs will grow and so will the needs of our students. UCF has grown to a stage in which competitive benefits for graduate students is necessary and will prove extensively beneficial in the upcoming years.