This document is the first volume of a three-volume set comprising a workshop leader's guide designed to help in-service providers conduct workshops on early childhood education for teachers, administrators, and others associated with Chapter 1 programs. The guide contains step-by-step procedures for preparing, organizing, and presenting a full-day comprehensive workshop. To allow flexibility in workshop presentation, workshop variations and alternate activities are suggested; in addition, the guide's 10 sections are designed so that they can be expanded or contracted. Volume I of the set considers workshop essentials and contains sections 1 through 5, the first of which, "Getting Started," includes a checklist of materials and equipment needed to conduct the workshop. Section 2,"Presenter's Guide," discusses goals of the workshop, specific activities, recommendations for using overhead transparencies and handouts, and suggestions for workshop evaluation. Masters for 18 transparencies and 17 handouts comprise Sections 3 and 4. Section 5 is a bibliography of more than 500 items organized in 9 topic areas relevant to early childhood education. (BC)