Staff Qualifications and Professional Development
Sample Excel Spread Sheet
Family and Community Partnerships
Explain how staff communicates on a daily basis with parents about their child’s day Common conversations at drop off and pick up Daily information about their child that may be posted on white boards or bulletin boards Daily sheets or logs
Explain how your program meets the different and/or cultural needs of families when providing materials and opportunities for furthering education and providing information.
Administration and Management
Environment
Assessment Specialist will conduct a walkthrough of facility to observe the environment Copy of recent licensing environmental health and fire inspection reports
Process for observing each child’s health and development on a daily basis and communicating observations to the child’s family, other caregivers, and to specialized staff, with recommendations for family to seek medical opinions as necessary
Curriculum and Instruction
Documentation may be found in parent or employee handbook, in program brochure or other printed materials.
A copy of daily schedules for each classroom
Name of curriculum used by the program Evidence- copy of curriculum materials, photo copy of front page, written information about curriculum in parent handbook Approved= developmentally appropriate, research based & aligns with Michigan Early Childhood Standards of Quality for Pre K If the curriculum your program uses is not on the list of approved curriculums then the program must provide evidence that the curriculum is developmentally appropriate, research based and aligns with the Michigan Early Childhood Standards of Quality for Pre K
Copy of a written cultural plan Documentation may be found in parent or employee handbook
Copy of written special needs plan
Examples from each classroom of anecdotal notes/observations, child folders, running record, classroom notebooks Explain how staff plan for each child using anecdotal notes/observations
Approved= developmentally appropriate, research based & aligns with Michigan Early Childhood Standards of Quality for Pre K
Evidence of parent-teacher conferences conducted for all ages in all classrooms:
Examples and evidence of how observations and assessments are used for planning by staff
“What happens after I hit the submit button? ”
Not Approved Means…