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Software

Course you'll need to take if your job responsibilities include entry level computer service technician support duties. Will help prepare you for the Core hardware Service Technician exam.

A+ Certification Core Hardware - A CompTIA Certification (A+ Certification, Student Edition)

Identifies the symptoms and causes of burnout and advises educators how to organize their time and environment to stave off job stress

Avoiding Burnout: Strategies for Managing Time, Space, and People in Early Childhood Education

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Paula Jorde-Bloom

Psychology & Counseling

This book is an indispensable guide for any director who is serious about staff development. With insight and a keen awareness of the realities facing the field, the authors provide realistic strategies for promoting change, developing staff, and increasing program effectiveness. Blueprint for Action is flexible enough to be used in a variety of settings. It is a must for your professional library. Chapters include: 1) Child Care Centers as Organizations: A Social Systems Perspective 2) The Dynamics of Organizational Change 3) The Diretor's Role in the Change Process 4) Assessing Oranizational Needs 5) Assessing Individual Needs 6) Implementing an Individualized Model of Staff Development 7) Linking Staff Development to Performance Appraisal and a Career Ladder 8) Meshing Organizational and Individual Needs

Blueprint for Action: Achieving Center-Based Change Through Staff Development

Business & Money

Bloom, Paula J.

Job Hunting & Careers

As the director of an early childhood program, you are in a unique position to influence the decision-making policies and practices at your center. In this book, you'll learn that participative management is both a philosophy and a set of behaviors that define your interactions with people. You'll explore techniques for managing the daily business of your center by involving others in critical decisions affecting their professional fulfillment. If you want to empower your staff and make them vital partners in achieving centerwide goals, then this book is essential reading.

Circle of Influence: Implementing Shared Decision Making and Participative Management (Director's Toolbox)

Bloom, Paula Jorde

Management & Leadership

As workshop leader, your job is to ignite a passion for learning and to engage your participants as active partners in the learning process. Workshop Essentials will help you achieve that goal. Whatever your level of expertise, you'll appreciate the practical approach of this lively reference. It provides the tools you need to design and deliver high content, high involvement, and high-energy training.

Workshop Essentials: Planning and Presenting Dynamic Workshops

Skills

Meetings are the glue that holds early childhood organizations together. Skill in facilitating meetings is essential for effective program management. Filled with practical tips and techniques to help you lead more engaging and productive meetings, Making the Most of Meetings will help you: * Craft a well-designed agenda * Engage participants * Solve problems * Make action plans that get implemented * Build a productive team * Increase the shared commitment to your center's goals

Making the Most of Meetings: A Practical Guide

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Well-trained and experienced staff are the key to early childhood program quality and healthy child development. Yet, every director knows that finding those teachers is a huge challenge. Skills in recruitment, interviewing, screening, selecting, and orienting new teachers are the ones that every director needs. This book breaks down the recruitment, selection, and orientation processes into manageable components and suggests practical and effective techniques to help you find teachers with the right fir for your program's particular needs.

The right fit: Recruiting, selecting, and orienting staff (Director's toolbox)

Albrecht, Kay M

This book dispels the myth that there is one best leadership style that all directors should emulate. It will help you understand the subtle but important distinction between leadership as a role and leadership as a set of skills and competencies that can be supported and nurtured at all levels of the organization.

Leadership in Action: How Effective Directors Get Things Done

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

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