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Whether your day care center or Head Start program has staff of five or twenty-five, you might wish to consider a professional development component (PDC). “What is that?” you say. “Not another thing we have to do. Isn't it enough that early childhood educators ... must be an astute purchaser, ... must be persnickety picker-and-chooser, ... must be a scavenger, ...” (Hymes, 1968, pp. 82–85) “and that programs have to meet state licensing standards or Head Start Performance Standards? Now programs must develop a new component!”
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Sharon Lee Wooden is Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM. Nancy Baptiste is Coordinator, CDA College Based Training Program, New Mexico State University, and Professional Development Coordinator, H.E.L.P., Inc., Las Cruces, NM. Loui Reyes is Director of Children, Youth, and Family Programs, H.E.L.P., Inc., Las Cruces, NM.
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Wooden, S.L., Baptiste, N. & Reyes, L. Required: A professional development component for every early childhood education program. Early Childhood Educ J 18, 26–27 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01616810
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