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
Active supervision
Our active supervision packages will support your early childhood or OSHC team to create environments that keep children safe, foster their learning, and meet your services’ legal obligations.
Intentional teaching 101: What it is and how to plan and document it!
Our intentional teaching professional development packages empower educators to implement intentional teaching strategies in their planning, documentation, relationships and environments.
Introduction to assessment and rating
This package will support you to build knowledge and understanding of NQS’s exceeding themes and begin to embed exceeding practice at your early childhood or OSHC service. It includes a site visit and guidance from one of our expert consultants.
Managing a service: For coordinators and directors
Our managing a service professional development packages will support you to effectively manage an early childhood, OSHC or family day care service.
Nature play: The value of children learning on, and being in nature
This package will support your educator team with inspiring ideas to incorporate nature play into your early childhood or OSHC program.
Orientation and training for committees
Is your committee of management clear on its governance responsibilities and legal duties? As the peak for community-owned education and care, we are the experts on education and care committees.
Professionalism and communication: Exploring professional identity and effective communication in the workplace
Our professionalism and communication packages will support your team to explore professional identity and build the confidence they need to have challenging conversations.
Professionalism in practice
Our professionalism in practice packages will support your team to explore what a culture of professionalism in early childhood and OSHC looks like, and learn ways to ensure your collaboration and communication meets professional standards.
Programming and documentation: Making it work for your team
Our programming and documentation packages will support you to design curriculum and documentation approaches that meet your service context and needs, ensuring your approach is compliant with the NQS and Law and guided by the approved learning frameworks.
Quality improvement planning: Creating a QIP that works for you
Our quality improvement planning packages will support your team to reflect on your current QIP, explore strategies to manage the admin process and incorporate stakeholder feedback, and develop a QIP that truly improves your service. You’ll also explore how the QIP is used differently for assessment and rating versus driving improvements at your service.