The importance of working as an advocate

The importance of working as an advocate

Thesis Statement

Daycare centers have advocates who are responsible for providing total care to children who are in an extreme need of parental care and attachment. They make sure that they fulfill their duties adequately at their position of a center director.

Central Idea

Living in a modern city is often deliberated as apprehensive; people migrate in order to avail better opportunities, their professional goals and other emergency work. So current trends in society give rise to nuclear family systems. According to current trends of modernization, society has already accepted the drift of the nuclear family system. In order to facilitate children of such families, child day care centers had been introduced years ago because parents of such families leave their houses in order to complete their tasks and career. In such cases, their child got ignored as their parents leave their original towns and stay away from their elders otherwise they would have taken care of the child.

Nowadays day care centers provide quality care to children because they accommodate the needs of an infant to pre-teen. Child care directors in day centers are responsible for ensuring that the staff performs their duties according to the mark and all the operations of the school go as planned. Large day care centers often have assistant director and sub-ordinates so that duties may be divided accordingly. The paper elucidates and answers the following focus questions:

Focus Question 1 - What are the responsibilities of the day care centre director? Illustrate

Focus Question 2 - What is the field of action of centre director?

Focus Question 3 - Describe the administrative duties of a centre director.

Focus Question 4 - How does a day care centre director act as an advocate?

Focus Question 5 - What encourages a person to work at a daycare center?

It also discusses the duties and importance of a center director and how a center director can serve as an advocate.

Discussion

Focus Question 1 - Job Description / Duties of the Center Director

A center director is responsible for planning, coordinating, directing and controlling the academic and administrative activities of an educational unit. He monitors, evaluates and approves special activity programs, complementary, recreational, sporting and cultural programs. They evaluate the performance of teachers and organize and approve the schedule of activities of the school year. Also, they develop and execute the draft and proposed budget for the unit. Not only this, they ensure compliance with the rules, procedures and regulations governing the school. They direct the Council of Professors and other campus events. On the other hand, they often organize and participate in academic refresher workshops. They come up with action plans that are aimed at improving the teaching-learning process, based on the results of student assessment. They oversee the implementation of plans and programs to ensure comprehensive care of children and, develop and present the business plan to the Educational Zone (Ilyas, 2013). They also overlook activities like preparing an annual report on the ...