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Scallan, Patricia Clark – Child Care Information Exchange, 1986
Presents time management techniques that child care directors can use in learning to control "time bandits," those external (circumstances and expectations of others) and internal (personal work attitudes and behaviors) factors that take away focused attention from planned priorities and personal productivity. (BB)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Administrators, Day Care
Lamb, Cathy – Learning, 1995
Presents suggestions to help teachers who must work with difficult principals, offering 10 ideas for how to make meetings with such principals more effective. The paper also notes what to do if the principal is unreachable and describes how four teachers handled their own problems with difficult principals. (SM)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Behavior, Conflict Resolution, Elementary Secondary Education
Zeece, Pauline Davey – Child Care Information Exchange, 1992
Discusses the need to understand the unique nature of illness and dying for each person and circumstance. Describes ways for center directors to deal sensitively with an employee's illness. Explores the impact of serious illness on child care programs and examines pitfalls to avoid in dealing with ill employees. (SM)
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Administrator Attitudes, Administrators, Child Caregivers
Jahn, Eileen White – Camping Magazine, 2001
Camp directors are role models for staff, and their behavior sets the tone for staff behavior. Treat staff like adults. Treat them with respect; be demanding and fair. Clearly tell them what is expected. Encourage initiative, and don't punish the mistakes that come with learning to make decisions. Anecdotes illustrate how inappropriate management…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Camping, Employer Employee Relationship
Giammatteo, Michael C.; Giammatteo, Dolores M. – 1980
This booklet explains the meaning and sources of stress, presents a model differentiating among several approaches to dealing with stress, and offers advice and self-help exercises to aid in alleviating the causes of stress. Each chapter topic is a component of the stress alleviation model: stress awareness, tolerance, stress reduction, and stress…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Administrators
Hill, Lynn T. – Child Care Information Exchange, 1995
Examines three reasons teachers leave their profession and approaches for helping them to love their work. Suggests that when teachers feel challenged, in control of their lives, and have a sense of belonging, their needs have been met. Then they can become the adult attachment figure that children must have in order to have their own needs…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Day Care Centers, Early Childhood Education, Employer Employee Relationship
Carter, Margie; Curtis, Deb – 1998
Written for child care center directors, this book offers a framework for thinking about and organizing the director's work along with principles and strategies to cultivate the kind of thinking and activities that support a vision of early childhood programs as learning communities. Chapter 1, "Guiding Your Program with a Vision," offers a vision…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Administrators, Day Care
