The booklet is the second in a series on the ways that child care centers can contribute to the healthy growth and development of preschool children, and focused on is the mothering teacher. The child care teacher is thought to be a mother substitute who can help the child learn to trust the world. Mothering is seen to involve a natural drive to…

Data collected in visits to 50 for-profit and 50 nonprofit day care centers showed no quality differences and little efficiency difference between the two sectors. Cost of increasing quality from mediocre to good was 12-16 cents per child-hour. (SK)

Although employment growth in the child day care service industry is projected to be among the fastest in the economy over the 1988-2000 period, the rate of growth should slow as demographic pressures ease. (Author)

Skills/competencies for aides/child care workers (entry) and teachers/directors (advanced) were rated by 11 day care directors, 38 teachers, 5 workers, and 18 aides. More than half of the skills were identified as important for entry level. The only areas rated solely advanced were communicating with parents and working with special needs…

The booklet is the third in a series on the ways that child care centers can contribute to the healthy growth, and development of preschool children, and focused on is helping the child adapt to change. The change of starting school is viewed in terms of the mother's role, the difficulty of leaving mother behind, feelings of the first day, getting…

The booklet is the fourth in a series on the ways that child care centers can contribute to the healthy growth and development of preschool children, and focused on is the prevention of bedlam. Bedlam in a child care center is seen to be caused by frustration, anger, too much noise, overstimulation, reaction to teacher, contagion, or change in…

Article discusses the origins and development of the Child Development Associate Program for training professional staff in child care. (GB)

Because a national day care program will probably be instituted soon, the major issues should be debated before policies are set. Thus some program models are analyzed and then related to the needs of various consumer groups. (Author)

The exit interview is examined as a management tool that can help the day-care center administrator better understand teacher turnover. Research suggests that telephone interviews or mailed questionnaires are more effective than personal interviews conducted as the employee leaves an organization. (PAM)

Phase I of a research and demonstration project was devoted to establishing, operating, and evaluating a demonstration nursery center to provide for the daytime care of 30 infants and toddlers ranging in age from 2 months through 3 years. During this phase, some emphasis was also given to recruiting and training the center's nursery assistants,…

Two hundred child care program directors were surveyed as to their most pressing administrative concerns. The primary problem areas targeted by most administrators involved (1) evaluating personal effectiveness; (2) developing a center's philosophy; (3) evaluating the effectiveness of the center for the child; and (4) establishing effective…

Although developmental specialists have called for more male teachers in the fields of day care and early education, it is possible that parents with children in day care would be prejudiced against male day care workers. The work sample evaluation technique in which participants are asked to evaluate identical pieces of work was used in a study…

This module on owning and operating a day care center is one of 36 in a series on entrepreneurship. The introduction tells the student what topics will be covered and suggests other modules to read in related occupations. Each unit includes student goals, a case study, and a discussion of the unit subject matter. Learning activities are divided…

Part 1 of the South Carolina child care job training curriculum guide provides an orientation to child care employment and covers personal development, identifying job opportunities, applying for a job, and understanding the meaning of work. Part 2 focuses on the specific job skills necessary for work as a child care aide, such as child growth and…

Describes a child care co-op in which careers in the fields of early childhood education, child studies, teaching or pediatrics are investigated. The program also gives students the opportunity to practice parenting skills in a controlled setting. (Author/ABB)