Solutions for Early Childhood Directors: Real Answers to Everyday Challenges.SOLUTIONS FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD DIRECTORS: Real Answers to Everyday Challenges. Lee, K. Beltsville, MD: Gryphon House, 2003. 224 pp. $29.95. The author addresses many issues that child care center directors might face, using an easy-to-read format that emphasizes her personal experiences directing nonprofit A corporation or an association that conducts business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive. Nonprofits are also called not-for-profit corporations. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law. , for-profit for-prof·it adj. Established or operated with the intention of making a profit: a for-profit organization. , and corporate early childhood programs. Solutions are offered for everything from recruiting staff to learning children's names. Unfortunately, in attempting to be such a comprehensive resource, most topics are not addressed with enough depth to be particularly useful. For example, room arrangement is covered in just two pages! Hopefully, readers, especially new child care center directors, will look into the great variety of resources (articles, books, and Web sites) that Lee recommends for further information. Readers also should carefully consider how to adapt each solution to best work for their individual situations. While Lee's personal experience lends credibility to her advice, input from other early childhood professionals could have enhanced the book. Even the book's photographs show a limited picture of early childhood centers, with the same people, in the same outfits, being shown several times. Although she focused on directing child care centers, Lee noted that she also wanted to address specific issues faced by directors of half-day half-day Noun a day when one works only in the morning or only in the afternoon half-day half n → halber freier Tag m preschool programs. She writes, "Generally, two types of (half-day) preschools are still functioning today: the church preschool and the co-op preschool." No mention is made of public school preschool programs, which also face many of the issues Lee has focused on, as well as some unique ones. Reviewed by Marla Landis Lan·dis , Kenesaw Mountain 1866-1944. American jurist and baseball commissioner (1921-1944) remembered for curbing corruption in professional baseball. , integrated preschool teacher A Preschool Teacher is a type of early childhood educator who instructs children from infancy to age 5, which stands as the youngest stretch of early childhood education. Early Childhood Education teachers need to span the continum of children from birth to age 8. , Snug Harbor Community School, Quincy Quincy. 1 (kwĭnt`sē) City (1990 pop. 39,681), seat of Adams co., W Ill., on a bluff above the Mississippi; inc. 1839. It is a trade, industrial (steel parts), and distribution center in a grain and livestock area. , MA |
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