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Competency Area
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Responsibilities
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Key Behaviors
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Child Development & Learning
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- Demonstrates knowledge of infant/toddler developmental milestones and applies that understanding in daily routines and lesson planning
- Implements individualized and culturally responsive learning experiences based on observations and assessments
- Promotes learning through play, exploration, and responsive interactions,
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- Designs and delivers activities that foster growth in all developmental domains
- Adjusts strategies based on developmental needs and interests
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Health, Safety, & Nutrition
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- Ensure compliance with all health, safety, and nutrition requirements.
- Supervise children at all times, maintaining appropriate ratios.
- Follow safe sleep and diapering procedures
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- Follow all health, safety, and nutrition protocols.
- Supervise children at all times, ensuring a safe environment.
- Implement safe sleep and diapering procedures.
- Promote healthy eating habits and model positive mealtime interactions.
- Regularly inspect the environment for safety hazards and address them immediately.
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Responsive Caregiving
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- Build respectful, culturally sensitive relationships with families
- Implements individualized and culturally responsive learning experiences based on observations and assessments
- Conduct at least two home visits and two parent-teacher conferences annually.
- Share resources and strategies to support learning at home
- Builds secure attachments through warm, consistent, and responsive interactions
- Encourages children’s self-regulation and independence
- Respects and integrates children’s and families’ cultures, languages, and values into the learning environment
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- Listen actively to family concerns and respond with empathy
- Conduct home visits and parent-teacher conferences to discuss progress.
- Provide resources to support family learning at home
- Collaborate with staff to meet children’s individual needs.
- Responds promptly and sensitively to children’s cues.
- Uses positive guidance and age-appropriate discipline techniques.
- Uses materials and strategies that reflect diverse cultures
- Supports dual language learners appropriately
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Family & Community Engagement
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- Build respectful, culturally sensitive relationships with families
- Implements individualized and culturally responsive learning experiences based on observations and assessments
- Conduct at least two home visits and two parent-teacher conferences annually.
- Share resources and strategies to support learning at home
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- Listen actively to family concerns and respond with empathy
- Conduct home visits and parent-teacher conferences to discuss progress.
- Provide resources to support family learning at home
- Collaborate with staff to meet children’s individual needs.
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Observation, Documentation, & Assessment
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- Conduct developmental screenings and ongoing assessments.
- Maintain accurate, confidential records of each child’s progress.
- Use assessment data to guide lesson planning and individualization
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- Conduct timely developmental screenings
- Observe and document children’s progress using objective language.
- Record accurate and confidential documentation of each child’s progress.
- Use assessment results to guide instructional planning.
- Share progress with families in a strengths-based manner.
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Professionalism & Continuous Improvement
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- Participate in professional development, training, and reflective practice.
- Maintain confidentiality and comply with all program policies.
- Collaborate effectively with colleagues and specialists
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- Model respectful, professional interactions with staff, families, and children.
- Maintain confidentiality in all matters
- Remain flexible and solution-focused when challenges arise
- Seek feedback from peers and supervisors to improve practice.
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