Service leadership professional learning package

What is a learning culture? How do educators create a strong learning culture that sustains, includes and respects everyone in the early learning community—children, families, educators and other staff?

In this course, presenters Anne Stonehouse AM and Michelle Gujer discuss ways to create a service that is full of liveliness, creativity and energy and where  everyone’s unique strengths and potential are harnessed. They also explain how educators can create a thriving culture of learning, to support good practice and provide best outcomes for children.

This course will help you:

• understand what a culture of learning looks like for children, educators, families and other staff in your early childhood education and care setting
• implement practical ideas for creating and sustaining a culture of learning
• understand the link between culture and leadership
• foster leadership to motivate and inspire a culture of learning.

Please allow time to view this session in one sitting as your progress through the webinar cannot be saved.

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What is quality, and what is the educator’s role in quality? This on-demand webinar critically looks at quality and explains how educators can develop, lead and maintain quality in their early childhood education and care setting. You will explore how a service can embed a rich and unique approach to quality within its philosophy, drawing on both cultural and community strengths. You will also be encouraged to reflect on your service context when making decisions about practice to foster quality improvement throughout the service.

This on-demand webinar will help you: 

• improve and maintain quality within your early learning setting
• understand what quality looks like in the unique context of your service, in reference to the National Quality Framework
• develop quality within your teams in different ways
• talk about quality with families, carers and the wider community.

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This course has been developed to help educators create a useful and accurate Quality Improvement Plan. It provides examples and advice on how a Quality Improvement Plan can support early childhood professionals in assessing their current performance and recognising what they do well. The course also explains how to plan effectively for future improvements using the model of the quality improvement spiral.

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This course explains how educators can build and strengthen partnerships with the communities in which they work and live. It includes reading materials, self-reflection activities and a three-part video interview with the nominated supervisor of an early childhood education and care service. The course also addresses the role of diversity in creating collaborative community partnerships, with a particular focus on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.

This course examines:

• the benefits of partnership between an early childhood service and the wider community
• the role of interpersonal relationships in community-service partnerships
• how educators can build relationships successfully
• the importance of being visible in the community.

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Coming from the Greek word ethos meaning ‘character’, the word ethics describes ways of being, thinking and acting based on one’s values and virtues. A code of ethics, by extension, is a set of clearly defined and distinctive values and virtues collectively regarded as important by members of a profession. It includes key statements and commitments that guide professionals on how to act in relation to their work and those they work with.

This course, presented by Catharine Hydon, delves into the ECA Code of Ethics and examines what it means to be ethical. It also explores how early childhood educators can use the code to strengthen relationships with children, families, colleagues, communities and the profession. The course includes interviews with various early childhood educators, showing how they apply the ECA Code of Ethics in everyday situations.

In this course, you will:

• be introduced to the key elements of the ECA Code of Ethics
• examine how the code can help you with ethical challenges in your work
• unpack each principle of the code
• reflect on how to consider ethical decision making as a part of your everyday practice with children.

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