Exclusion of Children with Fevers from Child Care

What's In This Kit?
This training kit is designed to help teachers understand when to exclude children with elevated temperatures from their classroom. It contains:

• Expected training outcomes
• Preparation instructions
• Training strategies and tips
• Implementation steps
• Follow-up activities for teachers
• Follow-up activities for administrators/directors
• A learning assessment
• A training evaluation/further needs assessment
• A resource list
• The article "Exclusion of Children with Fevers from Child Care" by Susan Aronson, MD
• A training certificate to award to teachers for attendance and participation
• A certificate for the trainer and other presenters

Who's the Target Audience?
The target audiences for this kit are beginning, intermediate, and advanced teachers of children age birth to 8. It will introduce teachers to the latest guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Public Health Association guidelines for excluding children with elevated temperatures.

Teacher Skill Level

beginning intermediate advanced

Children's Age Level

infants toddlers preschoolers school-agers birth to 8

Kit Timeline:
Preparation time for this kit is 1.0 hour. Implementation time is estimated at 1.5 hours.

Training Outcomes:

1. Teachers will explain how illness is spread.
2. Teachers will identify when a child with an elevated temperature should not be in a group care setting.
3. Teachers will distinguish between false beliefs and current best practices related to elevated temperature.
4. Teachers will identify who should be excluded from group care settings based solely on elevated temperature.
5. Teachers will summarize the recommendations for determining when to exclude children from group care settings.
6. Teachers will discuss how to handle conflicting opinions from health care professionals.

These training outcomes address the following professional standards:

• C-5b, C-6a, H-4a, H-4b, and H-8 of the Accreditation Criteria and Procedures of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (naeyc, 1998).
• 1, 2, and 3 of NAEYC Standards for Early Childhood Professional Preparation, Initial Licensure Level (naeyc, 2003).
• 1304.22(b)(1) of Head Start Performance Standards (Federal Register, Nov. 5, 1996, Volume 61, Number 215).

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