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Administration and Management of An ECCE Centre

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ADMINISTRATION AND

MANAGEMENT OF AN ECCE

CENTRE

Any organization needs to be managed and administered well to be successful.
Even your home runs smoothly because of good planning and administration. If
you analyse the working mechanism, you will find that, like any other organization,
the home has a well-defined management and administration mechanism. Efficient
and correct administration is both an art and a science.

Good management helps to maintain a unity of directions and actions that are
being carried out in the organization. These help the organization achieve
organizational goals and requirements effectively and efficiently. Good
management and administration ensure the planning and arrangement of all
factors of production being carried out in the organization. It also helps to assemble
and organize resources in an effective manner to achieve set goals. It gives direction
to the efforts of all involved towards achievement of predetermined goals.

An ECCE centre also requires good administration and management to achieve
its goal of providing the required learning environment that will promote and
ensure the holistic development of children. All the stakeholders need to work in
an organized and coordinated manner for the ECCE centre to be successful.

In this lesson, we will discuss administration and management and also about the
difference between supervision, monitoring and mentoring and their role in running
an ECCE centre. This lesson will also discuss the importance of keeping record
and the types of records to be maintained in an ECCE centre. The process of
accounting and auditing of finances of an ECCE centre will also be discussed.

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