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
Responding to children’s behaviours that are challenging: How to reframe, reset and reduce stress
Our guiding behaviour packages will help educators reframe and reset, reduce educator stress, and nurture children with positive behaviour strategies that all educators can put into practice.
Roundtable critical reflections
Roundtable critical reflections are small group discussions of a specific topic where each participant is on equal footing. We offer coaching and mentoring and can facilitate a roundtable critical discussion on any topic you’d like to explore with your team.
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.
Sensory smarts training for OSHC
Our sensory smarts package explores the power of the senses and their role in children’s development in outside school hours care.
Supporting psychological safety in your workplace
Gain essential skills and knowledge to support a mentally healthy and safe workplace. You’ll learn to recognise psychosocial hazards, understand what they are and how they arise in the work environment, as well as spot the early warning signs of stress, fatigue and potentially negative psychological responses.
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.
Team teaching: Teacher and educator collaboration in the early learning environment
Our team teaching package will empower your early childhood team to build on their individual strengths, level up their trust and communication, and ultimately, provide the best possible learning outcomes for children.
The management committee and the early childhood team: Fostering positive working relationships
This package will support you to understand your role as a member of the committee of management when working with the early childhood team, and teach strategies to foster effective working relationships, reduce the likelihood of issues and resolve conflict.
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.
Trauma-informed early childhood training & professional conversations
Delivered over three to four months, this intensive School Readiness Funding menu-approved training package will support your team to embed trauma-informed practice at your early childhood service.