Qris/stars

[midaycare]

Here in MI, at least in my county, they offer a lot of help for us to go through the process, mainly for funding purposes right now, and the OYC staff is pressured to get as many providers as they can to participate. So they offer consultation to providers who are participating in the program.
What they do is come once a month and go over what you can do to achieve a star rating or a higher star rating. This is not the person who observes your program for a 4 or 5 star. After that, you work on getting a rating or a higher rating by yourself and the consultant stops coming, but you can always call and ask questions. The ladies are very nice here!

Midaycare, unless this is for the observation for you to get the 4 or 5 star rating, it's just a consultant who comes out and goes over what you need to do to achieve then rating you are going for and they are there for about an hour.
Now when you schedule your assessment to get a 4 or 5, that are there to observe for 4 hours!

HTH!
I've been through the process and have a 3 and am contemplating on getting a 4. If you have any questions or help, I may be able to help!

This is my assessment, yikes!

[Unregistered]

I heard that you must have a degree to get a rating higher than 1 star. Is this true, and what kind of degree if true?

[melilley]

This is my assessment, yikes!

Good luck! Keep us updated on how it goes!

[midaycare]

I heard that you must have a degree to get a rating higher than 1 star. Is this true, and what kind of degree if true?

Higher than a 3 star. But with so many credit hours you can earn 4 or 5. They want classes pertaining to early Ed. I have a bachelors in elementary Ed and a masters in school counseling, but not early Ed classes. My 4 or 5 star rating (if I get it) will come from being high in other areas.

[midaycare]

Good luck! Keep us updated on how it goes!

Thank you! I'm really nervous but I have a 60 page packet of everything they are going to observe/look at/ask me. It states the scoring right in there. So much to do in 3 days!

[Annalee]

Thank you! I'm really nervous but I have a 60 page packet of everything they are going to observe/look at/ask me. It states the scoring right in there. So much to do in 3 days!

They arrive early here because they have to see children arriving...they usually arrive before 8 and stay till I get children down for nap and then they interview me.....good luck to you!

[melilley]

Thank you! I'm really nervous but I have a 60 page packet of everything they are going to observe/look at/ask me. It states the scoring right in there. So much to do in 3 days!

I'm sure you will do great! At least they give us the packet that they use, to look at.