Early Childhood Management Services
Early Childhood Management Services are designed to provide the necessary tools and resources for families to ensure their children have a strong start in life. This includes education, health and social services, nutrition, early learning and development, and family supports. It is important for these services to work together, as they have a collective impact on children’s well-being and achievement.
This type of service can be provided by a community organization or a school district, or it can be offered through a child care network. The services offered vary by location, but typically include basic first aid training, CPR for infants and children, medication administration training (MAT), record maintenance, business management, and child development education. There are also courses available that teach parents about early childhood brain development, parenting, and family support strategies.
While there are many different types of child care centers, they all must follow the same rules and regulations as any other educational institution. This includes being licensed by the state, having a qualified teacher on staff, and following safety guidelines. In addition, some programs may require participants to complete child development coursework, while others may offer specialized training for staff in areas like identifying and responding to emergency situations.
A person who manages a child care center is often known as an administrator. In this role, they are responsible for many areas of a child care center, including parent registration and waitlists, talent and recruitment, operations and finance, and building maintenance. This is often done on a day-to-day basis, but the administrator may also oversee certain special events or projects.
Child care centers are usually run by either a for-profit or nonprofit company, and they can be part of a larger chain or operate independently. In the latter case, they are usually managed by a director. There are also a variety of other management positions within this field, from assistant managers to directors of early learning and education.
The level of training that childcare workers are required to have varies from state to state, and is often dependent on the number of children in the program and the age range they serve. Generally speaking, though, a high school diploma is required. Some states may also require a bachelor’s degree in early childhood education or a related field to be a childcare worker.
When governments subsidize ECEC, participation rates tend to increase. In fact, children in countries that subsidized at least some universal ECEC in early childhood were more likely to participate in the service than were their counterparts in countries that only subsidized low-income families. Furthermore, selection effects based on low income and having more than one child were reduced when universal subsidies were accompanied by income-adjusted or reduced out-of-pocket contributions for low-income families. This is probably because parents who were able to access the service could afford it more easily.
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@thicketville: meta: did john ever want to go to college? what would he have studied if he did? if not, did he ever want any sort of higher education, like a vocational degree or apprenticeship? — META TOPICS.
i think college was always a very distant concept for him growing up: more 'something that happens to posh people in the big cities' than a potential career path. john's father was a dock worker before losing his arm and most of their relatives did labor-intensive jobs in and around either the coal mines or the docks, so for anyone who actually thought john had a future — which was very few people, if anyone — it was sort of expected that he'd wind up in the same realm of work. they could never hope to afford college, so cheryl wouldn't have brought it up to him as a possibility, because john was a dreamer of a kid and would've gotten himself in trouble with their father if he insisted on pursuing it.
honestly, john's childhood was lived one day at a time, and nobody really thought he was going to survive past the teenage years (least of all john), so he really never considered a future for himself at all, other than "one day i'll get out of here". and even that felt like a pipe dream before he discovered magic. these days, i don't think he spends time considering what might have been anymore, because the past is the past and it eats him alive already without him helping it along, but in a perfect, perfect world, i think he would've loved college, and maybe gone into creative writing.
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Early Childhood - Nomenclature Cards: Human Anatomy
Montessori Nomenclature cards are used for classifying and building vocabulary and concepts in all subject areas. Also known as 3-part cards, this material is made up of a control card, which has the picture and word on the same card, and individual pictures and labels. Students then match the individual pictures and labels to the correct control card, providing for in-depth visual discrimination practice and independence, as students do not need to ask the teacher for help to check their work. For this 4-year-old student, the teachers have extended the work to include realistic objects and word tracing, adding layers of complexity to the work.
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10 Educational Activities for Toddlers: Making Learning Fun
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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, gather ’round! Prepare to embark on a wildly entertaining journey into the world of education for the tiniest scholars. We present to you, with a dash of humor and a sprinkle of silliness, the top 10 educational activities for toddlers that will have them giggling their way to knowledge!
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hey throwback to the time I went to Colonial Williamsburg* and, despite being NINE YEARS OLD, managed to put together a costume that made ppl assume I was a paid re-enactor (though, as I was quick to point out, the cut of the dress and brim of the mobcap were actually more appropriate to the 1850s, but my MOM, who bought my dress, just couldn't learn her history...), and proceeded to abuse my Cool Outfit Privileges in a way that I've honestly never come close to topping since.
I swear this actually happened.
I was watching the minutemen's** parade and basking in the Aesthetic(tm) of it all when a group of ACTUAL re-enactors dressed as redcoats*** muscled their way in front of the crowd and started reading the (actual genuine) Riot Act to the tourists, admonishing them for unlawful assembly, "in the name of the king" blah blah blah while gently herding them towards a fenced-in staging area for the next part of the show.
I knew this was all a performance. However, I was also nine years old and autisic, with zero concept of social appropriateness and the (correct) belief that I knew more about this period of history than 99% of the tourists.... plus I apparently had ZERO CHILL.
In a rush of Feral LARPer Instinct that bordered on divine inspiration, I slipped, unnoticed, through the crowd to a smallish tree poking a couple feet above crowd level. Clambering up, I braced myself against a branch and looked out over the crowd, at the tourists civilians packed standing-room-only as the redcoats denounced their freedom, OUR freedom, in the name of their king. And I started yelling.
"LONG LIVE THE REVOLUTION, LONG LIVE THE UNited-- uH, LONG LIVE THE THIRTEEN COLONIES! LONG LIVE INDEPENDENCE!"
The surrounding tourists looked up and saw a skinny kid with, buckteeth, freckles and the general aura of a half-starved 1700s farm child in (to them) full historical costume, and assumed it was part of the show.
They took up my cries, some raising their fists in the air in solidarity, growing louder and more enthusiastic until the crowd stampeded as one, breaking out from the stage area and (still playfully of course) crowding the redcoats offstage and pursuing them back the way they came.
I really do wonder what the guys playing the redcoats were thinking as Literally Just Some Kid wearing a modified amazon pioneer costume hijacked their re-enactment and rallied the other tourists to full (and accurate-ish) revolt. Like, what the fuck????
After everyone had trickled out, I stayed in the tree for a few minutes, watching for further retaliation from the brits and slowly being hit by the reality of what had just happened. In a haze of overwhelming shock and euphoric glee, I jumped down from my perch in the tree, rejoined my mother, and continued our tour of Williamsburg.
(...I think. The fact that I Did That broke my brain so much that I don't remember anything else of the trip until after we got home and I was going through my souvenir bag.)
so yeah that's the story of how I led a successful mock rebellion when I was nine.
*it's literally in the name that this whole thing was racist and colonialist asf, even more so back in 2008. Just to acknowledge the context this story occurs in.
**if you don't live in america or aren't a massive nerd, "minutemen" were independence movement's the civilian reserve force. the Little Flute And Drum dudes.
***if you don't live in america or aren't a massive nerd, "redcoats" was a derogatory term that the revolutionaries coined for british soldiers due to their red military coats.
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