Invaluable for the 2- or 4-year ECE student or for early ECE professionals, this resource covers job opportunities from infant care to college-level ECE instruction, explores the growing number of job titles and employers in the field, and details where jobs exist and what qualifications are necessary. Accompanying CD-ROM includes sample cover letters, resumes, interview tips, and checklists that aid in advancing an educational career, from structuring a self-assessment of interests and skills to competing for a specific job. From Thomson Delmar Learning.

This practical book explores the subtle and important distinction between leadership as a role and leadership as a set of skills and competencies that can be supported and nurtured at all levels of the organization. It will help you assess your unique leadership style; understand the values and beliefs that shape leadership behavior; increase interpersonal understanding among staff; increase shared commitment to the center's goals; make action plans that get implemented; solve organizational issues in a collegial and non-confrontational way; and plan for your successor. From New Horizons.

Why a career in early childhood education? Find out by seeing professionals at work in many roles and settings (public school, family child care, Head Start, and corporate child care, etc.) and hearing them talk about their work. Powerful images of what high-quality, developmentally appropriate early childhood education looks like in action. 

Includes a viewers' guide, developed in 2003, that provides background information and thought-provoking questions to help career-changing adults, high school and college students, counselors, trainers, and higher education faculty explore the challenges and opportunities shown in the video's vignettes.

Produced by Davis-Gray, Inc., with the support of the Rockefeller Brothers Foundation and Johnson & Johnson. 28 min.

This classic 1¼" pin of children holding hands reminds us to join together to keep the focus on the rights and needs of young children. It's also great for annual Week of the Young Child activities. Sold only in sets of 5.