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A Great Place to Work offers this advice for tapping into teachers' intrinsic motivation...

"An integral part of the director's leadership role is helping teachers build opportunities for enrichment and personal achievement.  Here are some questions you can ask teachers to help them become reflective practitioners and take ownership of their job satisfaction and professional growth:

• What is the most fulfilling part of your job?
  
  
• What talents, skills, special competencies, and unique contributions do you bring to the classroom?
  
  
• Do you have an opportunity every day to do what you do best?
  
  
• What keeps you from being as effective as you would like to be in your position?
  
  
• If you had the power to change anything about your job, what would you change?"

• Inspiring Peak Performance: Competence, Commitment, and Collaboration

• A Great Place to Work: Creating a Healthy Organizational Climate

Leadership is an important ongoing part of managing an early childhood program. These two resources focus on ways to create and maintain a work environment that increases competence and where staff feel valued and supported by you and their peers.

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