Director's Training Course Outline

Available Training Formats: In-person, Virtual live, Virtual Pre-recorded, and COMING SOON on-demand RMPD University

Description: Each module is designed to provide two hours of tailored training.  

Target Audience: Lead teachers, Coordinators, New Directors, Existing Directors

The Director Training includes the following Six Core Modules:

• Establishing and Maintaining and Effective Organization
  • Program Development
  • Program Operations and Administration
  • Program Evaluation
    
• Business and Operations Management
  • Business Practices
  • Financial Management
  • Facilities
  • Marketing and Public Relations
• Human Resources Leadership and Development
  • Personal and Professional Awareness
  • Human Relationships
  • Leadership and Support
  • Personnel Management
• Maintaining a Healthy and Safe Environment
  
  • Knowledge and Enforcements of Regulations
  • Health
  • Safety
  • Nutrition
    
• Implementing a Developmentally Appropriate Curriculum and Environment
  • Curriculum Design
  • Teaching Practices
  • Child Assessment
  • Learning Environment
  • Environmental Assessment
• Instituting Family and Community-Centered Programming
  • Positive Relationships with Families
  • Community Collaboration

Learning Objectives:

• Recognize the distinctions between management and leadership, and consider how they use both in their role as a director of a Head Start/Early Head Start, and early childhood programs.
• Review the HSPPS and how the standards apply to each of the modules
• Identify best practices to make sure their work as a Head Start/Early Head Start director places families at the heart of their work by analyzing the family and community participation standards in the HSPPS.
• Learn fundamental principles of communication and use them to meet the day-to-day communication needs of a Head Start or early childhood program director.
• Discuss Head Start, early childhood development trends, and other concerns pertaining to directing Head Start/Early Head Start and childcare programming.

Expected Learning Outcomes: 

• After the completion of each training module, the participants will be able to implement learned strategies immediately.

Head Start Standards:

1302.92 Training and professional development.
(a) A program must provide to all new staff, consultants, and volunteers an orientation that focuses on, at a minimum, the goals and underlying philosophy of the program and on the ways they are implemented.

(b) A program must establish and implement a systematic approach to staff training and professional development designed to assist staff in acquiring or increasing the knowledge and skills needed to provide high-quality, comprehensive services within the scope of their job responsibilities, and attached to academic credit as appropriate. At a minimum, the system must include:

(1) Staff completing a minimum of 15 clock hours of professional development per year. 

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