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Collaboration Qualities and You Collaboration Qualities and You   Look back now at the list of qualities suggested by Pugach and Johnson. Which ones can obviously be attributed to the two teachers in the Field Notes? Can you tell which qualities of good collaboration might have been missing? What might have been the important thought […]

Good Collaborators at Work Consider the experience of one kindergarten teacher who absolutely did not want the school music teacher to “interfere” with her program. She was a musician herself and played both piano and guitar during much of the kindergarten day. The music teacher, on the other hand, had a contractual responsibility to provide

The Community Within School or Center CHAPTER 8   W orking with other adults at your own center or school can be rewarding and helpful as well as, on occasion, challenging. As an early childhood professional you will find that the relationships you build will be important to job satisfaction, to your success with children,

My dispositions target D I S P O S I T I O N S   I   S T I L L   N E E D   T O   D E V E L O P M Y   S T R O N G   D I S P O S

Do they tell you more about how you need to grow in order to be a leader?   It may seem early to be thinking about it but, in the not too distant future, you may be called upon to take a leadership position in the early childhood field. One thing to do is to

Do they advance your ideas about what kind of leader you are or will be?   It may seem early to be thinking about it but, in the not too distant future, you may be called upon to take a leadership position in the early childhood field. One thing to do is to keep alert

Personal Learning Insight 8.1: Leadership Dispositions   It may seem early to be thinking about it but, in the not too distant future, you may be called upon to take a leadership position in the early childhood field. One thing to do is to keep alert to interesting ideas for community connections and leadership possibilities.

Personal Learning Insight 8.1: Leadership Dispositions   It may seem early to be thinking about it but, in the not too distant future, you may be called upon to take a leadership position in the early childhood field. One thing to do is to keep alert to interesting ideas for community connections and leadership possibilities.

Teachers and Caregivers as Community Leaders Have you thought of yourself yet as a potential community education leader? For most beginning teachers, it seems far too early, but your community may well be counting on you. In a 2010 national ranking of careers that inspire confidence in leadership, education placed in the top 10, coming

Benefits of Community Outreach “Programs are an important part of a community; they not only support and enrich the community but also are aware of and take advantage of its resources” (NAEYC, n.d., p. 9). There are a number of ways that early education institutions can work with the larger community. Section 8.5 Teachers, Caregivers,