1.3.1.2: Mixed Director/Teacher Role

Centers enrolling thirty or more children should employ a non-teaching director. Centers with fewer than thirty children may employ a director who teaches as well.

RATIONALE

The duties of a director of a facility with more than thirty children do not allow the director to be involved in the classroom in a meaningful way.

COMMENTS

This standard does not prohibit the director from occasional substitute teaching, as long as the substitute teaching is not a regular and significant duty. Occasional substitute teaching may keep the director in touch with the caregivers’/teachers’ issues.

TYPE OF FACILITY

Center, Early Head Start, Head Start, Large Family Child Care Home