The Importance Of Dyk's Culture

For this method I contacted four local Fife childminders that also work with the community childminding, I discussed with them over the telephone what I was required to do and how I would visit their setting to see their play area and to do an interview to gain qualitative information. (Appendix 1)

Leaders play a significant role, especially in the early childhood field. The staff, parents, students, and the community members have an opportunity to work and collaborate with administrators of the program and create a healthy learning environment for their children and the community. Research has shown that strong leadership characterizes the quality of preschool settings, where leaders and practitioners share a clear vision of the setting’s practices (Ang, 2011). In this paper, I will summarize fieldwork observations, and transcribe a personal interview conducted with a leader of the local preschool in the community. A brief description will be given and the reason why she was chosen for the project.

Literature states that leadership is displayed as a persistent and positive activity (Fitzgerald and Gunter, 2008 cited in Siraj-Blachford and Hallet, 2014, pg.9). According to Rodd (2006), early childhood practitioners need to be effective leaders to make sure their roles and responsibilities are carried out effectively. Although leadership can be learned or developed, it is important that all individual gains access to professional training and opportunities to practice, refined and broadened (Rodd, 2006). Therefore, the importance of leadership and implementation to the setting is recognized by all Early Years Leaders. Leadership can be displayed as a process in which one person, usually it is the leaders role and responsibility to set the purpose or direction for one or more other persons. Then later on gets them to move along together with him or her and with each other in that direction with competence and fill commitment. (Jacques and Clement, 1994, cited in Briggs and Briggs, 2009). Siraj-Blatchford and Hallet (2014) adds that leadership is also known as a process for personal and professional learning and development; organizational change and improvement. Rodd (2013) defines leaders working in early childhood sector as people who are able to influence the behaviours of others to achieve a certain goal or planned outcome. Similarly, leadership in the early childhood sector appears to be more of a result to groups of people who work together to influence and inspire

This details how we must work in partnership with parents and carers, promote the areas of learning preparing them for school. It ensures we support families that has English as an additional language and highlights the need for key workers.

My centre, HeadStart Early Learning Centre is located at 6-8 Wattle Street, West Ryde, NSW 2114 Australia, north-west of the Sydney Central Business District (CBD). It is built on a quite suburban street surrounded by houses and apartments, as well as a park across the road. The community in the suburb of West Ryde consists of many cultures ranging from Chinese to Lebanese and Italian backgrounds.

SFU Childcare Centres’ mission is “Leading excellence in Early Care and Learning in a sustainable way” and their vision is to create an environment where children can develop their potential through freedom to explore and engage in the world around them.

Throughout the years from the age of 3 years of age to five years, these may be seen as an exhilarating time for the children and their families. We aim to make the child’s time at the centre educational. The main thing Little Joeys is working towards in the year of 2016 are for them to become confident within themselves and develop their use of communication skills and have the readiness of being able to transition into school. The centres philosophy is coherent with the Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF) which is used with the educators interacting with the children.

Opportunities are offered to parents to gain knowledge of their child/rens’ educational and developmental needs and interests: Family literacy nights, parent lounges or a meeting place to create and maintain an environment that offers parents, families and community members a warm, inviting, culturally respectful, safe and healthy place to meet.

Today Shelley took the day care children on an excursion to the Muswellbrook PCYC for Kiddy Fitness class. The children throughout this experience engaged in a lot of physical activities involved in races, games and equipment.

Nowadays it is paramount to appreciate the teacher leadership idea. When school leaders demonstrate skills that promote teacher leadership functions that are focused on instructional proficiency to enable faculty and staff to work as a system focused on student learning, it not only makes students progress academically, but it also makes the job of any school leader much easier. Hitherto, some school leaders prefer to organize their schools by centralizing most of the decision around them. Danielson (2007) wrote that successful schools have administrators who incentivize teachers to become leaders and which makes students learn more than those schools that do not. To embrace this idea, I will welcome the teacher leadership concept and give the appropriate support so my schools may achieve great success and teachers are able to present their full talent.

School leadership has significant effects on student learning, second only to teacher’s instruction. (Leithwood, 2004) Principals that incorporate distributive leadership allow people to share their expertise and passions for specific items and can increase the effect on learning. Distributive leadership is a framework for analyzing and reflecting upon situations with the understanding that no one has all the answers and as a team, a better solution can be created. It provides a structure and a culture for systemic change. (“Distributive Leadership,” 2010) Distributive leadership allows change to continue even if there is a change in principals or any one member of the team. A strong, well thought out plan with a great leader will

Drawing upon class activities, course materials and professional experiences explain why it is important for a school leader to demonstrate skills that promote teacher leadership functions focused on instructional proficiency and enable faculty and staff to work as a system focused on student learning. (2a, 7d)

The sales strategy is to highlight the childcare service to prospective centre members. The focus will be marketing the centre to young active families. Every Saturday morning will be open house for the childcare centre. Families will be able to visit the facility for the entire morning.

CAEYC envisions a respected professional workforce providing developmentally appropriate and culturally sensitive, high-quality, early care and education for all young children achieved through research, education, professional development and advocacy.

According to the centre’s website, they have the approach that is more focused on the business perspective rather than on the educational view. The evidence was shown on the centre’s website which emphasises that it is ideally for owner who has already possessed experience in managing staff of any industry, and has a good customer service ethic, and the owner of the centre does not need to come from an Early Childhood background. Such requirement shows intention to attract people who are motivate to establish a business, not an educational center.