Training

Are you ready to enhance your leadership and advocacy skills to make a bigger impact in your role?                      

Discover strategies to strengthen your leadership approach and amplify your voice for advocacy in early childhood education.   

Note: This series is only recommended for new directors or those looking for a refresh.

The EYLF V2.0 has been updated with three new principles, including Collaborative Leadership and Teamwork. The importance of effective leadership in early childhood education and care is well documented including the relationship between effective leadership and outcomes for children. This goes beyond formal leadership positions, to include leadership principles and practices enacted by children and educators. (ACECQA, 2023)
 

This 2-hour session will focus on the collaborative leadership and teamwork practices service leaders can implement to improve the quality of their service, including ways to empower children and educators.  

Note: This special evening session runs from: 5.30pm-7.30pm

Do you feel that you have exceeding practices but are finding it difficult to identify this in your key practices? Are you unsure what the difference is between Meeting and Exceeding? 

This session will enable you to ‘unpack’ each exceeding theme in relation to the what and why, and to understand the process of identifying how your practices go above and beyond. 

Compliance is a team effort.

Are you confident in your knowledge of and compliance with the Education and Care Services National Law and Regulations?

Understanding and applying the Law and Regulations is essential to providing a high-quality early education and care service. 

Is your team thriving, connected, and engaged?

This session equips directors with strategies to cultivate positive staff relationships, foster effective communication, and support educator wellbeing.

Digital technology is now a natural part of children's everyday lives, and when used intentionally, it can support rich learning experiences.

This session will explore:

• How educators can intentionally engage children with technology to encourage inquiry-based learning and collaboration
• What engaging effectively with technology looks like in early childhood pedagogy

Explore methods to foster curiosity, enhance critical thinking, and cultivate a sense of wonder in young children through inquiry based learning. Examine the significance of purposefully designed learning environments and different inquiry models in encouraging exploration and documenting educational progress.

NEW TOPIC

What’s your favourite song that lifts your spirits—and how often do you bring that joy into your program with children?

Discover how to confidently share music with children—no formal training required!

Gain your child protection certification with the course that sets the standard for the sector.

CHCPRT025 Identify and Report Children and Young People at Risk is a comprehensive child protection course that provides training around all aspects of abuse, reporting requirements and legal obligations for early childhood professionals.

How effective is your collaboration with management, and are your plans and policies driving long-term success?

Enhance your role as a key member of the management team by mastering strategic planning and policy development.

Note: This series is only recommended for new directors or those looking for a refresh.

SPECIAL EVENT WITH PROFESSOR CATHRINE NEILSEN-HEWETT

5-PART ONLINE MASTERCLASS SERIES TEAM TICKET: WEBINAR RECORDINGS INCLUDED

How confident are you in understanding and responding to behaviours that challenge?

To be effective and ensure each child can reach their potential, early childhood professionals need to clearly understand what drives children’s behaviour. Created and led by child development expert Professor Cathrine Neilsen-Hewett, this training equips early childhood educators with evidence-based strategies to address behaviours that challenge.

This 5-part webinar series provides practical tools and ongoing support to empower your entire team with an evidence-informed framework to reduce the incidence of challenging behaviours.

Note: A recording of each session will be made available within 5 working days after the completion of that session. All recordings will remain available to watch for 2 weeks after the last live workshop. 

- Can you identify emerging literacy skills? 

- Do you know of strategies and tools educators can provide to support these emerging skills?  

- Are you aware of the difference between reading to learn and learning to read? 

This session will help you to understand how to integrate literacy activities into your program, and how to support emerging literacy skills in children.