Time Management

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Time Management

Practical time management skills are critical for early childhood educators, as few of us have enough time to complete the tasks we set ourselves in any one day. Time management is defined as using your time productively and efficiently, which most of us feel we already do. 

Speaking About Practices

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Speaking About Practices

Being able to speak out about your service’s practices is an integral part of operating an early childhood education and care service.

Running a Staff Meeting

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Running a Staff Meeting

Management, educators and staff work with mutual respect and collaboratively, and challenge and learn from each other, recognising each other’s strengths and skills.

Reflection for Staff Meetings

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Reflection for Staff Meetings

This resource provides some ideas and topics for reflection during staff meeting times. These suggestions encourage the use of staff meetings for professional conversations and reflection on practices. 

Marketing Your Early Education and Care Service

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Marketing Your Early Education and Care Service

An effective marketing plan assists you to successfully manage your resources and time, and will enable you to budget realistically for marketing activities.

Goal Setting

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Goal Setting

As early childhood education professionals, it is imperative that we consistently evaluate our practices to ascertain our strengths and areas in need of development. Upon identifying areas for improvement, it is crucial to create a well-structured plan to accomplish these objectives. This is where goal-setting plays a pivotal role.

Establishing Supportive Relationships with Families

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Establishing Supportive Relationships with Families

Establishing positive relationships is the basis for effective collaboration with families. Building and maintaining these important relationships involves many different forms of communication in addition to routine, everyday contact. 

Engaging with Your QIP

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Engaging with Your QIP

The National Regulations require approved Early Childhood Education and Care Services to have a Quality Improvement Plan (QIP).

Connecting with Families

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Connecting with Families

How do we connect with families to ensure our service, educational program and caregiving meets their needs and provides the best start in life for their child?

Opportunities to support you to manage workforce shortages now

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Opportunities to support you to manage workforce shortages now

CELA has collated some of the programs, scholarship and training opportunities across the country designed to support attraction and retention of teachers and educators. 

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Sample Job Descriptions

As an Administrative Officer, you are expected to be an active team member of a team which provides high quality early childhood education and care to children. This includes all matters relating to administrative and financial nature of the service. 

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Thinking About

Talking about the quality of your education and care service is one topic that all educators and staff should be effective in communicating; whether this is with families, children, the community, management or an Authorised Officer. We need to be able to identify what quality means in our individual service and how this is reflected in the education and care we provide.

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Thinking About

An essential part of the operation of any education and care setting is the development and implementation of policy for the community of children, families and staff. This document provides a broad overview of, and introduction to, the policy planning process and some initial considerations.

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