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Carter, Margie – Child Care Information Exchange, 2003
Discusses ideas for establishing rituals and celebrations to ease enrollment and staffing transitions during the child care center school year. Recommends ways to make transitions part of the curriculum through the use of daily routines, picture books, celebrations, and gift giving to mark significant events and changes. (JPB)
Descriptors: Child Care Centers, Child Caregivers, Class Activities, Preschool Curriculum
Carter, Margie; Hilliard, Deadru – Child Care Information Exchange, 2002
Describes the change strategies involved in moving a mediocre child care program onto the road to excellence. Highlights strategies focusing on changing staff perceptions of themselves and their practices with families, obtaining honest observations of staff, visiting other programs for inservice training, examining educational practices in terms…
Descriptors: Administration, Change Strategies, Child Care, Child Care Centers
Curtis, Deb; Carter, Margie – 2003
While the early childhood field has formed standards to help in recognizing quality programs for children, practitioners seldom use values to guide in selection of materials or to help plan early childhood environments. This book draws on a variety of educational approaches, including Waldorf, Montessori, and Reggio Emilia, to outline hundreds of…
Descriptors: Child Care Centers, Classroom Design, Classroom Environment, Early Childhood Education
Carter, Margie – Child Care Information Exchange, 2003
Distinguishes between training and coaching, asserting that the latter focuses on the staff person as learner. Offers strategies for staff development: clarify when one is supervising versus coaching, identify issues before developing strategies, ask questions that spring from genuine curiosity, offer detailed descriptions of teacher actions,…
Descriptors: Caregiver Training, Child Care, Child Care Centers, Child Caregivers
Carter, Margie – Child Care Information Exchange, 2003
Discusses strategies for training responsive day care staff focused on the details of class activities and individual child development. Suggests that day care center directors model narrating the details of classroom observations, researching children's use of the environment, involving children in noticing details, and strengthening…
Descriptors: Administrators, Child Care Centers, Child Caregivers, Child Development
Carter, Margie; Pelo, Ann – Child Care Information Exchange, 2002
Offers practical solutions to three problems faced by administrators of early childhood education programs: motivating staff with different levels of commitment, dealing with staff communications and conflicts, and minimizing the impact of teacher turnover. (JPB)
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Administrator Role, Administrators, Child Care Centers
