2.01 child care program comparison. private home-based care: caring for children in one’s own...
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2.01 CHILD CARE 2.01 CHILD CARE PROGRAM PROGRAM
COMPARISONCOMPARISON
2.01 CHILD CARE 2.01 CHILD CARE PROGRAM PROGRAM
COMPARISONCOMPARISON
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Private Home-Based Care:
• Caring for children in one’s own home; a caregiver who comes to the home
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Private Home-based care
• Advantages: Individualized attention, children play with others, homelike environment, may be less expensive
• Disadvantages: No certification or inspection process; parent provides transportation to and from the center
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Center-Based Care:• Caring for a child/children in a
center outside of outside of the home
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Center-based Care• Advantages: Provides physical,
intellectual, emotional and social development for children
• Disadvantages: less individual attention; more exposure to illness;vary in types of activities, equipment and play areas provided
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CHILD CARE CENTERS• DESCRIPTION: Purpose is provide safe
environment for children of fulltime working parents
License required by state
13+ children ages 6 weeks to 13 years
Informal play or emphasis on the whole child: physical and health, language and communication, approaches to learning, cognitive, emotional, and social development (PLACES)
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CHILD CARE CENTERSADVANTAGES:
Cares for basic needs of child; concern for the child’s physical care primarily
DISADVANTAGES: • May be crowded and commercialized • High child/adult ratio
LOCAL PROGRAMS: Gingerbread; Ready or Not, Here I Grow Day School; Johnson Pond Learning Center; Goddard School; Spinning Wheels
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PreschoolDESCRIPTION: Primary purpose is
provide educational services for children 3 to 5 years
• Usually scheduled for 2½ hours in the morning or afternoon
• Informal play or emphasis on the whole child: physical and health, language and communication, approaches to learning, cognitive, emotional, and social development (PLACES)
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PreschoolADVANTAGES:
• Provides extra stimulation and variety of experiences
• Social skill development prior to formal education
DISADVANTAGES: • Half-day program• Inconvenient unless parents can work out
transportation and child care for the rest of the day
LOCAL PROGRAMS: • Sometimes managed by religious
organizations or owned by private organizations.
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FAMILY CHILD CAREDESCRIPTION: Child care within a family residence
providing care for 4 or more children but no more than 6, except for school age.
ADVANTAGES: Homelike, low ratios (1-6 including own children)
DISADVANTAGES: • Not structured, caregiver can go about their daily
work/chores and not give total thought to your child.
• Difficult to enforce licensing and credentials of caregiver.
LOCAL PROGRAMS: Many homes
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HEAD START
DESCRIPTION: Federal child care program that
helps children from low-income families enter kindergarten at a higher level.
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HEAD STARTADVANTAGES:
• Comprehensive program: Government funded, meals, shots, health care, professional staff, government funded, transportation, counseling provided.
• Activities focus on building self-esteem, and helping children and families work together to solve problems.
• Programs have a strong educational component.
DISADVANTAGES: • Children may have emotional problems• Children from low-income households may
have risk factors
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MONTESSORI SCHOOLS• DESCRIPTION: Self-directed learning
working with Montessori objects/activities using concrete objects and their 5 senses.
• ADVANTAGES: Skill-based, teaches self motivation and basic life skills, quiet, calm, and orderly
• DISADVANTAGES: Limited teacher/student interaction
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UNIVERSTIY SPONSORED/LABORATORY SCHOOLS
DESCRIPTION: #1 goal is to teach student teachers, not the child
ADVANTAGES: Ratios low, professional curriculum, student interns are trained
DISADVANTAGES: Limited enrollment, children are observed and behaviors studied by student interns
LOCAL PROGRAMS: NCSU
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EMPLOYER SPONSOREDCHILD CARE
DESCRIPTION: Parents can work near child and drop in during the day
ADVANTAGES: Promotes family togetherness; sick child care provided; parent has less sick days
DISADVANTAGES: Child may have a longer day while parents work
LOCAL PROGRAMS: Bright Horizons
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Smart StartDescription:North Carolina's nationally recognized
and award-winning early childhood initiative designed to ensure that young children enter school healthy and ready to succeed
North Carolina Partnership for Children, Inc. (NCPC) is nonprofit organization that provides oversight and technical assistance for local partnerships. Smart Start funds help parents pay for child care.
• ADVANTAGES: improves the quality of child care, helps fund child care, services offered depend on local (county)needs.
• DISAVANTAGES: Limited funding/Not a place
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NANNYDESCRIPTION: A nanny provides care in a
child’s home. ADVANTAGES: Care for child at home is
convenient, reliable and stable care, children stay in home environment, individualized care, provides multiple services in the home to child and family.
DISADVANTAGES: Expensive, children may not have opportunities to play with others
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Au Pair• DESCRIPTION: A person from a foreign
country who lives with a family and performs task similar to a nanny.
• Advantages: Provides multiple services in home to child and family, individualized attention, children can learn about another culture
• Disadvantages: Expensive, children may not have opportunities to play with others
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Stay –at-home Parent• Description: Parent stays with child
in the family home• Advantages: Child is in familiar
surrounding, stability of one care-giver over time
• Disadvantages: Less income with one parent working, skillset for work may become obsolete or decline
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Factors which influence selection of child care sites
Cost, location, and hours of operation Discipline methods used Program activities and equipment and supplies Adult-child ratios Personal qualities of caregivers Cleanliness of center & health department
rating Star rating Training and education of staff Nutrition program Transportation provided