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SCMA Childminders: Achieving Smooth Transitions
This badge is awarded to childminders who can demonstrate their understanding on how they acknowledge the separation fears of parents and children along with stranger anxiety and how they establish good settling in procedures through use of an Admissions Policy.
Completing this Open Badge will enable participants to develop their understanding on the importance of identifying the needs of parents and children at times of transition. This will include exploring the impact of change for children and families when starting or ending any kind of childcare or education placement.
Childminders should be able to demonstrate:
- how they acknowledge the separation fears of parents and children along with stranger anxiety
- how they establish good settling in procedures through use of an Admissions Policy
To earn this badge, you will need to:
- Have completed the SCMA Achieving Smooth Transitions CPL workshop or completed the SCMA Achieving Smooth Transitions eLearning programme
Tell us the following:
- How do you settle children positively in your childminding service?
- How do you meet the individual needs of different families in your childminding setting?
- How does a close emotional attachment help a child?
- Tell us how you will use what you have learnt on the course to improve and develop your practice in relation to Achieving Smooth Transitions?
This badge does not require you to hold any other badges although you must have completed the SCMA Achieving Smooth Transitions CPL workshop or completed the SCMA Achieving Smooth Transitions e-Learning programme.
Provide a statement, of around 200 words, telling us why you meet the criteria for this badge. Read the criteria carefully before submitting your statement, as your application will be declined if you don’t cover all of it within your evidence. Submit your statement using the badge application form below.
Use each point from the badge criteria as a heading or number your responses 1 – 4. This will help you structure your evidence. Write something for each point in the criteria e.g. if you are asked to work through a learning resource, you might say “I worked through the resource for half-an-hour each day between Monday 1 April and Friday 5 April and spoke to another childminder or professional about my responses to the exercises within it”. Stick to the criteria and don’t mention anything that isn’t relevant to it.
Remember, the evidence you provide will be viewable by anyone who you show your badge to. Please don’t include confidential or private information within your evidence.
Badge issuer
Scottish Childminding Association
The Scottish Childminding Association (SCMA) is the only organisation dedicated to supporting childminders in Scotland. Our aim is to promote childminding as a quality childcare service. We do this in part by helping SCMA childminders to be the best they can be.
Submit your application
The SCMA Open Badge system relies on trust. We trust that the evidence you provide will be of your own work and based on your own skills and knowledge. By submitting an application you agree to the following statement: “In studying and completing the activities for this badge, I confirm that all the work provided as evidence will be my own.” The SCMA will revoke a badge if the evidence provided is discovered to have been the work of someone else.
Your evidence, name, and email address will be sent to the organisation who issue this badge