CHLD 14

BCC Mission Statement:

Barstow Community College is an accredited, open access institution of higher learning committed to providing our students, community, and military population with the educational tools to achieve personal goals and professional growth. To accomplish this, the college offers traditional and distance education courses, programs, and pathways designed to enhance student success, leadership development, and career/workforce opportunities, enabling all in the community to thrive in a changing global society.

Contact Information:

Instructor: Scott Donovan

Email: sdonovan@barstow.edu 

Class Meetings:

This course is a fully online class, and will have no physical meeting dates. 

Please note: Your exams for this course will not be proctored due to COVID-19. You will be able to take your exams at home through Canvas.

Course Description:

Course Title: Child Health, Safety, and Nutrition

Course No: CHLD 14

This course will examine laws, regulations, standards, policies, procedures, and best practices related to health, safety, and nutrition in care and education settings for children birth through middle childhood. Includes the teacher’s role in prevention strategies, nutrition and meal planning, integrating health safety and nutrition experiences into daily routines, and overall risk management.

Units: 3 (CSU transfer)

Prerequisites: None

Online Education Resource (OER) Textbook - FREE: 

"Safety, Health, and Nutrition in Early Childhood Education," Paris, Jennifer, (2020) (1st Edition) An Open Educational Resources Publication by College of the Canyons.

Student Learning Outcomes:

Upon completion of the course, the student should be able to:

• Describe and assess strategies used to promote the mental and physical health, safety, and nutrition of children and adults in care and education settings, supporting culturally, linguistic, and developmentally sound practice.
• Evaluate environments for both positive and negative impacts on children’s and adults’ health and safety.
• Identify regulations, standards, policies, and procedures related to health, safety, and nutrition in care and education settings.

Course Objectives:

1. Define the broad concepts of health, safety, and nutrition.
2. Identify laws and regulations related to health, safety, and nutrition.
3. Identify health and safety risks in care and education settings.
4. Describe a caregiver’s role and responsibility in modeling good health, safety, and nutrition habits.
5. Describe culturally responsive strategies for partnering with families and the community in support of a healthy and safe environment for children.
6. Explore community resources available to support mental and physical health of children and families.
7. Apply the recommendations for children’s nutrition to the development of healthy and economical meals and snacks based on the age and individual needs of children.
8. Plan learning experiences on the topics of health, safety, and nutrition.

Course Content:

• Interrelationships between Health, Safety, and Nutrition for children birth through middle childhood.
  • Defining physical and mental health
  • Defining safety
  • Defining nutrition
• Laws, Codes, Regulations, and Policies
  • Fire and health codes
  • Title 22
  • Title 5
  • Emergency medical services authority
  • Local requirements
  • Food programs
  • Child abuse and neglect
    • Mandated reporting
    • Prevention strategies
    • Community resources
• Safety Management
  • Safe environments
  • Accommodations for special needs
  • Injury prevention and care
  • Emergency preparedness response and recovery
  • Car seats
• Health Management
  • Universal precautions
  • Daily healthy check
  • Food safety
  • Communicable diseases
  • Infectious process 
  • Illness and exclusion policies
  • Common health issues such as pink eye, lice, runny nose
  • Chronic and acute illnesses such as allergies, mental health, obesity
  • Sleeping and napping
  • Diapering and toileting
  • Health assessment tools
  • Staff safety and well being
    • Risk management
    • Employees policies
      • Physical health
      • Mental health
• Teachers and Caregivers Roles
  • Teachers as role models of best health, safety, and nutrition practices
  • Collaboration with families and other professionals to promote health, safety, and nutrition.
  • Communication
    • Families
    • Other health professionals
  • Community resources for children and families at risk
    • Homelessness
    • Foster care/child welfare
    • Incarceration
    • Trauma and abuse
    • Medically fragile
• Meals and Snacks
  • Nutrition guidelines
  • Diet analysis
  • Mealtime policies and regulations
  • Menu planning
  • Budgeting
  • Culture, traditions, and family choices
  • Allergies and food sensitivities
  • Special feeding needs
  • Sanitary food handling
• Planning Learning Experiences in Health, Safety, and Nutrition
  • Developmentally sound practices
  • Cultural, linguistic, and developmental differences of families, teacher, and children
  • Learning opportunities integrated during daily routines 
  • Physical fitness
  • Use of instructional technology
  • Accommodations for children with special needs

Online Attendance Policy:

• Participation will be accomplished through online discussions and completion of weekly assignments turned in on time.
• Students are expected to "attend" class on a regular basis. Attendance through an online course is noted through weekly assignments and becomes part of the permanent record. If you miss (or are late) with a weekly assignment, you will be marked absent for that week.
• Students are expected to have read all material prior to the due date to incorporate the material into assignments and discussions. It will be through active participation that course information is learned and retained.
• Students are expected to respond to all assignments each week. Missed assignments cannot be made up.
• All students are expected to check Canvas and their email on a weekly basis at a minimum.
• If the student misses any assignments for two (2) weeks in a row, OR misses three (3) total assignments, he or she can be dropped by the instructor. Please note, however, that it is the student's responsibility to drop a class, not the instructor. If the student does not drop, but remains on the class roll, a grade of F will result. (If you need to drop - please check at the Barstow College office for the drop deadline.)
• Emergencies will be dealt with on a case-by-case basis. You must email the instructor explaining the emergency prior to any missed work if possible. Documentation or verification may be required.

Late Work Policy:

Completed assignments must be submitted by the deadline. All assignments, quizzes, tests, etc. turned in after the deadline will receive a zero, unless prior arrangements have been made with the instructor.

No work will be accepted after the last day of class without the approval of a Dean. Instructors may drop you if you stop participating; however, students are responsible for dropping a course. Therefore the instructor cannot be held responsible should students earn grades they find unsatisfactory due to failure to withdraw from the class.

Grading: 

BASIS FOR GRADES	POINTS
Discussion Questions (9 modules @ 30 points for each module) Supports learning objectives: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, & 8	270
Journal Assignments – (6 @ 30 points each) Supports learning objectives: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, & 8	180
Program Paper Supports learning objectives: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, & 8	120
Final – Essay Supports learning outcomes: 1, 2, 3	150
Total Points	720

 

 How Points and Percentage Equate to Grades:

Points	Percentage
720 – 648	100 – 90 = A
647 – 576	89 – 80 = B
575 – 504	79 – 70 = C
503 – 432	69 - 60 = D
431– 0	59 – 0 = F

Assignment Descriptions:

Online Group Discussion Questions –270 points (Supports Student Learning Objectives 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, & 8)

Discussion questions (total of 9) will be worth 30 possible points for each week. Please provide thoughtful responses to your questions – submit in an essay type format with an intro/body/conclusion and you will need to provide one citation or reference in the response. Please review the rubric provided by the college. You need to respond to the questions and submit by the Wednesday of that week; this allows for all students to review the responses. Then you will need to respond to two other students by the end of that week. These are due the week they are assigned. 

Please see attached rubric. 

Journal Assignments – 180 points (Supports Student Learning Objectives 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, & 8)

Students will complete the journal question identified in the modules. There are a total of 6. Please reflect on the question and answer it in depth. A one to two sentence response isn’t sufficient. These are due as per the syllabus. Each is worth 30 points.

Please see attached rubric. 

Program Paper – 120 points (Supports Student Learning Objectives 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, & 8)

Congratulations! You are opening a preschool classroom. I would like for you to write a paper that supports the health, safety, and nutrition of your program. Since these three areas are the subject of this class, you will need to address each of these issues, in detail, as to the importance of providing them in your program.

1. What type of program will you be opening? A Preschool, Head Start, Faith-Based, Family Day Care, or Private Program? Provide your programs contact information. Include the name, address, phone number, and contact person of the program. Include age of the students you will be serving and teacher to student ratio (i.e., 1:3, 1:6, 1:8, 1:12).
2. Describe the environment of your center and the nutritional needs of the children in your program. Reflect on the regulations, standards, policies, and procedures related to health (illnesses or disabilities) , safety (indoors and outdoors [cushioning ground cover]) and nutrition (home cooked meals or prepared from an outside source or special diets) in support of young children, teachers, and families that you have been reading in the book, what we have been discussing in this class, and the resources you used.
3. Discuss how your program is using a developmentally age-appropriate curriculum for your age group in the areas of health, safety, nutrition, and describe 6 or more activities (2 for each component) that share with the children being physically healthy, safe, and eating healthy. Include how your program acknowledges the value of collaboration with families and the community.
4. Conclusion include what was learned and whether your program supports the information we have been learning in the book.

Please see the attached rubric.

Course Outline and Assignments:

Module	Topic	Assignment Due
Module 1	Introductions Chapter 1: Children's Well-Being and Early Childhood Education Chapter 2: Preventing Injury & Protecting Children's Safety	Journal #1 Disc Question #1A & 1B
Module 2	Chapter 3: Creating Safe Indoor Environments Chapter 4: Creating Safe Outdoor Environments	Journal #2 Disc Question #2A & 2B
Module 3	Chapter 5: Caring for Minor Injuries and Preparing for and Managing Emergencies Chapter 6: Child Maltreatment	Journal #3 Disc Question #3A & 3B
Module 4	Chapter 7: Promoting Good Health & Wellness Chapter 8: Prevention of Illness	Journal #4 Disc Question #4A & 4B
Module 5	Chapter 9: Supportive Health Care Chapter 10: Children with Special Health Care Needs	Journal #5 Disc Question #5A & 5B
Module 6	Chapter 11: Children's Mental Health  Chapter 12: Basic Nutrition for Children	Journal #6 Disc Question #6A & 6B
Module 7	Chapter 13: Protecting Good Nutrition and Physical Wellness Chapter 14: Providing Good Nutrition	Disc Question #7A & 7B Program Paper Due
Module 8	Chapter 15: Menu Planning and Food Safety	Disc Question #8A & 8B
Module 9	Final	Disc Question #9 Final

Student Add/Drop Policy:

The Student Add/Drop Policy is linked below. It is imperative that students check this policy when considering adding or dropping a class. 

Adding and Dropping Classes

Email Updates:

One of the primary methods of contact in an online course is email. You have been provided with a student email account. The purpose of providing you with this account is twofold. The email account will be used so instructors and students can remain in contact with each other in order to provide the information necessary for the students' academic success. The college also reserves the right to send emails to students from the college personnel. The emails sent by the college will consist of school-related issues. The college will not use this information to advertise any products and will not share student email addresses with any other organization. Please be aware that students must follow the guidelines listed in AP 3720.

Online Instructions:

It is your responsibility to complete the syllabus quiz before the due date.

By enrolling for this class, the assumption is that you possess the necessary skills to read at the college level, to enter and perform research on the internet, to email using proper email etiquette and to post to the discussions.

When emailing your instructor include your full name. Send all email with the name of the course in the subject line and Lesson No. or the words: problem, question or comment. Many times I receive email with no name in the body of the email. Sign all email with your name as registered at school, or else you will not receive a reply and your assignment will not be graded.

You must explain the problem in the subject line, i.e., Research 1 -- no research available. Email without an appropriate subject line will be deleted and will not be read. With the current high incidence of viruses and unsolicited email I automatically delete all email without appropriate subject lines.

Remember I do not answer email on the weekends, so the two business day response time does not include Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and holidays. If an email stating problem, help, or question in the subject line is sent on Monday through Thursday you can expect a response within two business days. If an email stating problem, help, or question in the subject line is sent on the weekends there will be a longer turn around time, but the email will be answered by Tuesday of the following week. 

Email assignments will have a one week turnaround time, and you should not expect an answer to a successfully submitted and completed assignment before the end of the one week turnaround time period. Receiving graded assignments or answers to your questions before the above stated timelines have passed does not guarantee that you will receive replies that quickly in the future. 

Online classes are NOT conducted via instantaneous transmission. Just as I am giving you a SEVEN day period to complete your work, I am to be given SEVEN days to reply to your assignments. In addition, the above stated timelines apply to ALL students and ALL responses to your questions and concerns. 

I appreciate your understanding of the above stated timelines and will respond to ALL questions and concerns about this class within the timeframes stated above.

An announcement area at the top of the class indicates the instructor's announcements to you. Be sure to check this each week so that you don't miss messages and clarifications; remember that sometimes no instructor announcement will have been made. Students are not to post in the instructor's announcement area. Should you have a concern with your class please email me your question. It is not appropriate for students to post their concerns in the classroom. Students who post issues in the classroom will receive a warning and their posting will be deleted unanswered. Students who ignore the warning and post issues concerning a single student will be dropped from the class. Please use the courseware management system messaging program, or the official college email to ask your instructor any questions that pertain only to one student.

Personal Computer Disclaimer and Recommended Software:

The college cannot be held responsible for personal student computers. The college strongly recommends all students have appropriate protection on their computers, including a firewall, and spyware blocking software, and an anti-virus program. Students can research free versions of software at http://www.cnet.com and after doing diligent research and determining which software will work the best with their unique system, can download the software at CNet's sister site, http://www.download.com. The college is not responsible for any software downloaded from any site as the college makes no specific recommendation for the student's choice of computer protection. 

Academic Honesty:

• All assignments must be the student's own, original work.
• Plagiarism or other unethical behavior will result in a zero on the assignment.
• Plagiarism or cheating of any kind will not be tolerated and suspected cases will be reported and could result in suspension or expulsion.
• Plagiarism is the intentional or unintentional use of the ideas or words of another person, published writing, or of any other information taken from the internet, book, magazine, or another person without properly citing the original source.
• Plagiarism is not properly or fully citing words or ideas taken directly or paraphrased from an outside source, turning in work that has been written by another person or even being given excessive assistance on assignments.
• Also, ideas that are "borrowed" from people, internet, or textbooks must be cited.
• Academic Honesty is expected from all students at Barstow College. Dishonesty in the classroom or the laboratory, cheating, plagiarism or knowingly furnishing false information to the College are all grounds for discipline.

Accessibility Coordination Center and Educational Support Services (ACCESS):

Barstow Community College provides a variety of services through the ACCESS office in an effort to equalize educational opportunities for students with disabilities as they move toward their educational or vocational goals. If you have a disability documented by a physician or other appropriate professional and are in need of accommodations please contact ACCESS at (760) 252-2411 x7225 or email ACCESS@barstow.edu. Once accepted into the ACCESS program accommodations can be arranged that will best suit your needs based on your disability and classroom/study requirements. Please be sure to allow at least two weeks to arrange appropriate classroom or testing accommodations. 

Sexual Harassment/Title IX:

Barstow Community College upholds a zero tolerance policy for discrimination, harassment, and sexual misconduct. If you, or someone you know, have experienced discrimination or harassment, including sexual assault, domestic and dating violence or stalking, you are encouraged to promptly contact the Title IX Coordinator. 

Basic Needs Support Services:

We learn as whole people. Research has shown that to learn effectively you must have basic security: a roof over your head, a safe place to sleep, enough food to eat. Barstow Community College has an extensive listing of resources to help you. If you need assistance with any of these areas, our staff is dedicated to addressing your basic needs. Student privacy is of the utmost importance. All conversations with support staff will remain confidential in accordance with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974. Reach out to Special Programs & Services at supportservices@barstow.edu, together we can work to make sure those needs are met. 

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