414.8(a) · Children cannot be left without competent direct supervision at any time. Competent supervision includes awareness of and responsibility for the ongoing activity of each child. It requires that all children be within a teacher's range of vision and that the teacher be near enough to respond when redirection or intervention strategies are needed. Competent supervision must take into account the child's age emotional, physical, and cognitive development.

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Category: supervision. Marked corrected in the state record.

414.8(k)(1)(i) · for a child of school-age through the age of nine years old: there must be one teacher for every ten children;

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Marked corrected in the state record.

414.8(l)(4) · When a school-age child care program cares for children in groups including children both over and under 10 years of age, the teacher/child ratio used must be that ratio applicable to the youngest child in the group.

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Category: ratio. Marked corrected in the state record.