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What Should We Be Emphasizing? Ideas for Training Staff.
Carter, Margie – Child Care Information Exchange, 2001
Discusses how early childhood directors can effectively communicate their values and expectations to teachers and parents. Describes strategies for centering discussion with teachers on the value of childhood, including reclaiming the concept of indicators and setting expectations for joy in learning. Strategies for communicating with parents…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Early Childhood Education, Parent School Relationship, Preschool Teachers
Growing a Vision: Growing your Staff.
Carter, Margie – Child Care Information Exchange, 1997
Discusses some strategies that can keep alive the organizational vision of staff working in a child-care center. Suggestions include ideas such as exploring and developing collective visions over time; determining parents' expectations; encouraging collaborative efforts in keeping the visions alive; creating maps, symbols, and representation of…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Administrators, Day Care Centers, Educational Philosophy
Supervising or Coaching--What's the Difference? Ideas for Staff Training.
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
Moving Staff through Difficult Issues. Ideas for Training Staff.
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
What Do Teachers Need Most from Their Directors? Ideas for Training Staff.
Carter, Margie – Child Care Information Exchange, 2000
Examines management styles, dispositions, and skills that provide a positive work environment for child care staff. Categorizes suggestions as offering genuine respect and trust, working with a vision for the future, sharing the decision-making process, rejecting a scarcity mentality, tending to the physical environment, and "walking the…
Descriptors: Administrator Behavior, Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Role
The Visionary Director: A Handbook for Dreaming, Organizing, and Improvising in Your Center.
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
Documenting Teacher Talk: An Exercise in Modeling.
Carter, Margie; Jones, Elizabeth – Child Care Information Exchange, 1995
Presents a dialogue between two experienced teacher educators as they consider ways to encourage teachers to examine their talk with children and with fellow teachers. Proposed ideas include: repeat words back, build on the other's interests and ideas, give specific praise when appropriate, state rules and expectations clearly, and encourage…
Descriptors: Administrators, Caregiver Speech, Classroom Communication, Collegiality
Revisiting Quality, Rekindling Dreams: Ideas for Training Staff.
Carter, Margie – Child Care Information Exchange, 1998
Discusses the reasons for mediocre child care programs and how programs could be improved by examining the relationship between high quality care for children and the organizational climate for adults. Shows how research findings are often not put into practice. Outlines Model Work Standards, standards that have the potential to improve programs…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Day Care, Day Care Centers, Developmentally Appropriate Practices