Elements and Performance Criteria
- Promote infant's and toddler's social development through recreation activities
- Encourage infants and toddlers to initiate and develop contact with others
- Structure experiences and recreation equipment and toys in a way which promotes cooperation
- Plan opportunities for social interaction between infants and toddlers with respect to their needs, interests and stage of development
- Acknowledge and encourage appropriate and effective communication between infants and toddlers
- Maintain a clean and hygienic environment according to regulations and organisation policy and procedures and resources
- Create a positive relationship between infants and toddlers and their parents
- Support infant's and toddler's attachment to their parents
- Assist parents to make constructive separations from their infants or toddlers
- Support parents in understanding the importance of infant's and toddler's feelings of trust, autonomy and initiative
- Instructor to respond to different parenting styles when fostering positive relationships between infants and toddlers and their parents
- Provide guidance to parents participating in recreation programs with infants and toddlers
- Encourage parents to initiate and develop contact with others
- Explain safety and hygiene requirements to parents
- Interactions with infants and toddlers establish meaningful routines and create a stable environment
- Respond promptly to infant's and toddler's signals of distress and encourage parents to do the same
- Show expressions of affection to both parents and infants and toddlers
- Assist parents to deal with infant's and toddler's fearful behaviour
- Praise infant's and toddler's attempts to perform recreation skills
- Encourage parents to set and reinforce safe and realistic limits for infants and toddlers
- Stress to parents the emphasis on the importance of constant supervision of infants and toddlers in and around a recreation environment
- Allow infants and toddlers to learn recreation skills in an environment that is free of shame, intimidation and force
- Assist parents to deal with infant's and toddler's egocentric behaviour and their frustration and anger
- Form a positive relationship with infants and toddlers