Describe your career path in early childhood education including your first role and what you thought your career would look like.

1. Describe your career path in early childhood education including your first role and what
you thought your career would look like.
2. What skills or competencies do you think are most useful for being an early childhood
program administrator?
3. What is a part of your day-to-day as an administrator that you find most challenging?
Share how you work through this challenge.
4. What is something people should know about working as an early childhood program
administrator?
5. What is currently happening in the field of early childhood education that makes you
hopeful? How does this impact your job as an early childhood administrator?
6. Where do you believe that we as early childhood leaders need to focus our advocacy
energy on right now?
7. What is a piece of leadership advice that you’ve been given that was so great you need
to share or so bad that you need to warn me?
In addition to the above questions, be sure to ask any additional or follow-up questions that
you’d like to know more about.
Step III- Reflection
Write a short response to the following the reflection questions:
1. Introduce the early childhood professional you interviewed. Include their name, position,
and center.
2. What was a major take-away or piece of advice from your conversation that you would
like to use in your career?
3. What was something new that you learned from the conversation?
4. What surprised you during the conversation?
You are not required to turn in a transcript of the conversation. You will be graded on your
reflections from the conversation not on the interviewee’s answers. Full points will be given
when all steps of the process are completed.

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