Early-childhood administrators provide leadership and manage the activities in preschool and kindergarten, which, in the public-school sector, are usually a part of a larger grammar school. Early-childhood educational administrators can also provide leadership in private and charter preschools as well as day-care centers.
Most jobs involving child-care leadership involve obtaining at the least a master's degree, along with experience in teaching or a related profession, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics. However, early-childhood teachers can also attend seminars and conferences for child-care leadership.
Conferences and seminars should be attended by child-care worker professionals on a regular basis. Ongoing education can help to keep fresh and positive ideas flowing, stimulate conversation on the subject of early childhood and lead to short- and long-term changes in education, according to The Gissell Institute, located at Yale campus in Connecticut, one of many educational non-profit corporations that sponsor conferences for teachers and early-childhood educational leaders.
Improving the quality of early-childhood education is of importance and value, according to the The McCormick Center for Early Childhood Leadership in Wheeling, Ill., and is one of the reasons for training child-care workers in leadership.