Each care routine and transition?provide an?opportunity to invite?young children to feel safe, respected, involved,?and treasured.?Each care routine and transition is an opportunity for early childhood professionals to foster respectful, responsive, meaningful relationships that?can?impact children’s healthy development now and in the future.?For this Competency, you not only study effective routines and transitions in infant/toddler care and education;?you?also?observe in settings in order to learn about and evaluate, first-hand, how routines and transitions can foster respectful and responsive relationships with very young children.? 

For this Performance Task Assessment, you will observe routines and transitions in an?infant and?in a toddler setting via YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0580lt7nrzOCuiQT-MEVUA ).?Search infant routines etc. Please add the link to the YouTube video you choose for each infant and toddler on the templets . You will also write a paper that evaluates?effective routines and transitions?and offers recommendations for improvement. 

 A paper that evaluates effective routines and transitions and offers recommendations for improvement.

• Observe routines and transitions related to greeting time, meals and snacks, diapering, napping, moving to new activities, the end of the day, and any other routines and transitions that involve children.
• Observe teacher-child conversations and interactions, aspects of safety, and the ways routines and transitions foster respectful, responsive relationships.
• Note questions you have about routines and transitions in the setting.
• Use the notes from your graphic organizer, the host teacher’s input, and the resources for both topics to write a paper between 5-6 pages. Include the following: 

Tittle Page

Part 1: Infants 

• Introduction: A brief overview of your observation setting. (1-2 paragraphs)
• Summary of information from the teacher in the infant setting. (2-4 paragraphs)
• Evaluation of infant routines and transitions you observed for safety, consistency, responsiveness, respect, and whether/how they fostered responsive and respectful relationships including attachment and/or autonomy appropriately. Be sure to substantiate your thinking with evidence-based resources. (2-4 paragraphs)
• Three recommendations for enhancing or improving the opportunities in routines and transitions for infants’ healthy development specific to fostering respectful and responsive relationships and appropriate attachment and autonomy. Be sure to substantiate your thinking with evidence-based resources. (2-3 paragraphs)  
• Part 2: Toddles 
• Introduction: A brief overview of your observation setting. (1-2 paragraphs)
• Summary of information from the teacher in the toddler setting. (2-4 paragraphs)
• Evaluation of toddler routines and transitions you observed for safety, consistency, responsiveness, respect, and whether/how they fostered responsive and respectful relationships including attachment and/or autonomy appropriately. Be sure to substantiate your thinking with evidence-based resources. (2-4 paragraphs)
• Three recommendations for enhancing or improving the opportunities in routines and transitions for toddlers’ healthy development specific to fostering respectful and responsive relationships and appropriate attachment and autonomy. Be sure to substantiate your thinking with evidence-based resources. (2-3 paragraphs)