Doing a ITERS Evaluation at Day Nursey

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On February 6th, I visited the infant room at Day Nursery Ruth A. Lilly Center and completed the ITERS observation one. Being my first experience doing the ITERS evaluation, I thought that it was going to be a little difficult to us. However, I was surprised to find out how it was very strait forward and the notes for clarification left no room for misunderstanding. While I was doing the ITERS evaluation at the Day Nursery, I noticed things I like about the program, things I did not like, and felt like the scores where accurate. Overall, I was very impressed with the infant room I observed. To start off the day, the teacher warmly welcomed all of the children and parents. The teacher asked the parent how their night was since they left the daycare the night before, when they ate last, had a diaper change, and when did they wake up. I made me feel like the teacher really cared about the children even when they where not in her care and waited to make sure everything went ok at home. All of the personal care routines where fallowed and the teacher where constantly washing their ha...

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