Child Guidance Clause Samples

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.