Team Resource Kit

Team Resource Kit

Team Meeting Bundle

This practical bundle of resources includes articles, templates and guides to support you in team meetings.

Team Resource Kit

Educational Leader's bundle

As an educational leader, you’re responsible for ensuring that educators at your service are learning, growing and reflecting on their practices. This bundle will support you in promoting further in-depth learning with your team around the topics of behaviour, the planning cycle, early childhood development theory, and how to better engage with your Quality Improvement Plan.

Use these resources in staff meetings, in your own practice or as a tool when mentoring with educators.

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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. 

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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.

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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.

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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. 

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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.

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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.

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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. 

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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).

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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?

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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.