LCA Childcare/Community Care case studies
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The LCA Childcare/Community Care credential is a multiple-choice certification exam for people preparing to work with children and vulnerable adults in care and community settings. Candidates typically include apprentices, entry-level childcare assistants, community support workers and staff moving from informal caregiving into a supervised professional role. The LCA Childcare/Community Care case studies are 5 cases and about 4,551 words.
1The 27-Month-Old Who Isn't Walking
You are the lead teacher in a licensed family child care home with 10 children, ages 6 months to 5 years. Malik is 27 months old and was born at 34 weeks.
946 words, about 5 min2Two EpiPens, an Expired Form, and a Donated Casserole
You direct a center-based program. The Blue Room has 16 three-year-olds, staffed by a lead teacher and one aide.
901 words, about 5 min3The Friday Deadline for 18 Rating Scales
It is Wednesday, May 28, in a publicly funded pre-K classroom. your education manager emails all teachers: complete a 30-item, English-only school-readiness rating scale for every child in your class by Friday, when the data are submitted for a state report.
861 words, about 4 min4'Kindergarten Ready!' in the Toddler Room
You teach the toddler room (24–36 months) in a center that has just hired an assistant director from a public elementary school. In September she launched 'Kindergarten Ready!': 20 minutes of daily letter-of-the-week flashcard drills, a 15-minute seated circle where children trace letters on worksheets, and a rule that children stay at their tables until the sheet is finished.
910 words, about 5 min5'It's My Night' - A Parent at the Door
At 5:15 on a Thursday, Nora's father arrives to pick her up. Her enrollment file lists her mother, her father, and her maternal grandmother as people authorized to pick her up; her parents share legal custody, but you have never seen a court order, and both parents are on the account.
933 words, about 5 min