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What is leadership?

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  • Leadership stems from social influence, not authority or power
  • Leadership requires others, and that implies they don’t need to be “direct reports”
  • No mention of personality traits, attributes, or even a title; there are many styles, many paths, to effective leadership
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What are some differences between leaders and managers?

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Leaders:
• Innovate – develop new ideas and ways of working
• Focus on people
• Inspire trust

Managers:
• Administer what has been established
• Focus on systems and structures
• Rely on structure and control

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What changes have been made to encourage leadership in ECE?

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  • Establish professionalism (College of ECE’s)
  • Over second half of 1900’s significant increase in attention to early years in policy and government agendas
  • Increasing focus on child care needs of the economy (two working parents) led to expansion of public and private centres and this raised concerns about quality of care
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What is the Science of Early Childhood Development?

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  • Early daily live shapes pathways for a lifetime
  • Genes set parameters for basic structure of developing brain but a child’s interactions create the neural circuits that build the brain
  • Responsive adults is key to brain development
  • The “premature” brain at birth is a double-edged sword: leaving children both vulnerable and full of potential and possibility
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What are the three different images of the child?

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  1. Children are active learners: Children are natural explorers
  2. Schoolification: Prepare children for success in school
  3. Pathologization: Children are problems that need to be fixed
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What are some of the United Nations Conventions on the Rights of a Child?

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  • All actions concerning the child shall be in his or her best interests
  • Children have the right to survive, develop and fulfill their human potential
  • Children are protected by the state from any form of discrimination
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What is difference between pedagogy and curriculum?

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  • Pedagogy: How learning takes place

* Curriculum: Content of learning

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What are four Canadian curriculum models?

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  • Reggio Emilia
  • Emergent Curriculum
  • High Scope
  • Montessori
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What is policy?

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  • Statements of principles underlying governmental action
  • They can be expressed at local, provincial or national levels
  • Canada has maintained a focus on child development since late 1990s
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What are the three different levels of government?

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  1. Federal government: does not have direct responsibility for ECE programs
  2. Provincial: direct responsibility to develop provincial policies for ECE
  3. Local/Municipal: direct responsibility for municipalities (school boards)
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What are the three federal policies for children and families?

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  1. Child care tax deduction: up to max $7000/year
  2. Universal child care benefit: $100/month until 6years
  3. One year parental leave
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What is the difference between a personal philosophy and a program philosophy?

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Personal: how you believe children learn, impacted by personal views

Program: curriculum approaches, purpose of program

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What are the three different child care settings that may impact philosophies?

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  1. Not for profit
  2. Publicly operated
  3. Commerical
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What are the three different philosophies of early learning?

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  • Maturationist: Children’s learning unfolds, emphasis on child readiness
  • Constructivist: Children learn via cognitive disequilibrium and problem solving
  • Behaviorist: Children acquire skills and knowledge through instruction and shaping
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What are some myths of leadership?

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  • Leaders are born, not made
  • Leadership is hierarchal
  • You have to have charisma
  • One standard way of leading
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What are the six different leadership styles?

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  1. Coercive: demands immediate compliance
  2. Authoritative: states the end but gives people the means
  3. Affiliative: revolves around people; values individuals, emotions and goals
  4. Democratic: forges consensus through participation
  5. Pacesetting: leader sets high standards and exemplifies what she expects to be done
  6. Coaching: helps group identify strengths and tie them to personal career goals
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What are four roots of transformational leaders?

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  1. Communication
  2. Collaboration
  3. Emotional literacy
  4. Celebrating accomplishments
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What are some characteristics of authentic leaders?

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  • Confident
  • Hopeful
  • Optimistic
  • Resilient
  • Ethical
  • Transparent
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What are the five primary components of the relational model?

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  1. Purposeful
  2. Inclusive
  3. Empowering
  4. Ethical
  5. Process oriented
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What are some characteristics of Howard Gardner’s Intrapersonal intelligence?

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  • People are particularly determined and can work well with personal deadlines and goals
  • They may sometime shy away from others and find it easier to work alone and quietly, but it is likely that they will be strong in one or two more intelligences
  • If you are intrapersonal then you are really good at knowing how you are feeling and how you may react to certain situations in the near future
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What are Stuart Shanker’s six levels of arousal?

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  1. Flooded
  2. Hyperalert
  3. Calm, focused
  4. Hypoalert
  5. Drousy
  6. Asleep
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What is the difference between self regulation and self control?

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  • Self regulation: energy expenditure to remain calm and focused, brain’s physiological process
  • Self control: ability to inhibit impulses
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What are the five steps of the reflective process?

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  1. Prepare
  2. Understand
  3. Take time
  4. Maintain objectivity
  5. Be honest and non-defensive
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What are some skills of critical thinkers?

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  • Rationality: relying on reason rather than emotion, look at all aspects of situation
  • Self awareness: recognize own biases, prejudices, assumptions, motives
  • Honesty: recognizing our own emotional impulses, selfish motives, self deception
  • Open mindedness: consider variety of viewpoints, perspectives; remain open to alternatives; don’t be too quick to judge or reject ideas
  • Discipline: avoid snap judgments, precise, comprehensive, meticulous, exhaustive, resist manipulation
  • Judgment: recognize relevance of arguments, perspectives
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What are the six steps of becoming critical thinkers?

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  1. Unreflective thinker (unaware of significant problems in our thinking)
  2. Challenged thinker (become aware of problems in our thinking)
  3. Beginning thinker (improve but without regular practice)
  4. Practicing thinker (recognize the necessity of regular practice)
  5. Advanced think (advance in accordance with our practice)
  6. Master thinker (skilled and insightful thinking becomes second nature to us)
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What is are differences between values and ethics?

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  • Values: those elements of your life which you find personally important. They are core beliefs which guide you on how to conduct your life in a way that is meaningful and satisfying for you
  • Ethics: well-founded standards of right and wrong that prescribe what humans ought to do, usually in terms of rights, obligations, benefits to society, fairness, or specific virtues
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What are professional ethics?

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  • Professional Ethics are those carried on collectively and systematically by the members of a profession
  • The public’s trust in a profession is ensured in part through that profession’s Code of Ethics
  • This sets forth the guidelines for ethical conduct of it’s members
  • It assures society that those who perform a service will do their work in accordance with high standards and acceptable moral conduct
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What are some barriers to professional development and post secondary education?

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  • Cost
  • Time
  • Lack of information about available programs
  • Geographic distance from available programs (PD is a lot easier for those in large communities versus isolated settings)
  • Training does not necessarily improve remuneration
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What are Ontario’s two professional organizations for ECE’s?

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  • College of ECE’s

* AECEO

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Why is advocacy important?

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  • Early childhood services in Canada (outside of Quebec) do not meet the needs of children, families, communities – not enough programs
  • Rural and remote communities woefully underserved
  • Special needs children woefully underserved
  • Families with non traditional work hours woefully underserved (e.g. parents work shift work at night?)

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