FCSE 3120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Communication
1 May 2018
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Chapter 5
Recruiting, Hiring, Leading &
Managing Personnel
Early Childhood Program Personnel
• Quality of your program is determined to a great degree by the quality of the personnel.
• Well qualified teachers meet the needs of the whole child.
• Establishing and maintaining a positive working climate, providing appropriate
professional development and ensuring that the staff is fairly compensated for their work.
• If staff find the working conditions inadequate, the children will not do well in the
program.
Roles & Qualifications of Personnel
• Staff in early childhood programs
o Director
o Teaching staff
▪ Teachers
▪ Assistant teachers or teacher aides
▪ Substitute teachers
o Support personnel
o Allied professionals
▪ Speech
▪ Occupational or physical therapists
▪ Case managers, or early interventionists
▪ Health consultants, or dietitians
▪ Music or Art teacher
Roles & Qualifications of Personnel
• Although each staff member has specific responsibilities
• It requires flexibility
• May be asked to serve lunch
• Sweep the floor
• A cook may talk or teach the children about fresh fruits and vegetables
• Anyone available may comfort a child who has fallen
• A program should be a caring community that assist each other whenever they can.
• This means that the means of lines of responsibilities are blurred in the interests of
providing a safe and nurturing environment.
Roles & Qualifications of Personnel
• Program Director:
o Oversee and responsible for the day-to-day operations
o Some are owners, others are hired to manage the program
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