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
Introduction to trauma-informed practice
Our trauma-informed practice packages will build your early childhood team’s understanding of developmental trauma and its impact on the developing brain.
Managing a service: For coordinators and directors
Our packages will support you to effectively manage an early childhood, kindergarten, pre-prep, OSHC or family day care service.
Meaningful celebrations in education and care: How to embrace the diversity of your families and community
Our meaningful celebrations package will support you to celebrate cultural diversity and foster inclusion at your early childhood or OSHC 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.
Programming and documentation in OSHC: Understanding and implementing the planning cycle
Our programming and documentation in OSHC package will improve your team’s ability to provide rich and meaningful experiences that meet the leisure and play needs of the children in your care.
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.