Professional Development
Tailored professional development and learning for early childhood and OSHC educators, teachers and leaders
De-stress your workday, meet your legal obligations and achieve your big goals with our innovative approach to professional development that can be scaled up or down to match your development areas and budget.
Topics
Team building: Nurturing your dream team
Our team building packages will support your managers to confidently lead effective teams and build strategies for succession planning.
Child Safe Standards and Reportable Conduct Scheme
Are you and your educator team across the eleven Child Safe Standards and Reportable Conduct Scheme? All early childhood and OSHC services are legally required to comply with the Standards.
The role of the educational leader: Simple strategies to mentor and motivate educators
Our educational leader packages will unpack your role and share the strategies you need to inspire and mentor your team.
VEYLDF Practice Principles: Embedding them in your early years program
Our VEYLDF professional development package will support your team to understand and implement each of the Practice Principles at your early childhood service.
School Readiness Funding packages
Our School Readiness Funding menu-approved packages equip teachers and educators with skills to help children get the most out of kindergarten in Victoria.
Children’s rights and everyday practice
Our children’s rights package will support your team to deepen their understanding of children’s rights in the early years and develop the skills to promote and implement them in your day-to-day program and practice.
Collaborative partnerships with families and communities: How to build genuine relationships with children’s first teachers
Our collaborative partnerships packages will teach educators the confidence and skills to build and maintain warm and open partnerships with families in their day-to-day interactions and programs.
Introduction to Circle of Security Classroom
Our introduction to Circle of Security Classroom package will develop your team’s understanding of their role as attachment figures.
Trauma-informed early childhood training & professional conversations
Delivered over three to four months, this intensive training will support your team to embed trauma-informed practice at your early years service.
Understanding and planning for cultural inclusion
Our cultural inclusion packages starts with the basics – supporting your team to explore the meaning of cultural diversity in the early years – and shares practical ideas for inclusion that are truly meaningful and avoid tokenism.