ECE Professional Development Workshops

As the field of Early Childhood Education continues to evolve, it’s crucial for professionals to keep up with the latest teaching strategies and regulatory requirements. We are excited to share with you this professional development opportunity for ECE centre or home-based managers, team leaders or teachers working in Early Childhood settings who wish to upskill and refresh their teaching practices, knowledge and learning.

Workshops Overview

Each topic will be practical and relevant with a focus on developing and supporting managers and teachers in everyday tasks applicable to working and communicating with staff, planning and preparing according to ministry regulations and maintaining quality assurance.

Effective Management and Professionalism

Professional Growth Cycle

The Statement of National Education and Learning Priorities

Quality Assurance

Leading Bi-cultural Practice + ERO

Delivery: Online.

Programme Duration

2-hour online workshop.

Cost

$130+GST per workshop

Leadership and Management of staff.  Exploring the definitions, characteristics and styles, maintaining relationships. Educational Leadership Capability Framework – NZ Teaching Council

Case Studies:

• Leading the curriculum
• Managing operational procedures

How to create a collaborative team; distributed leadership

Operational management – monitoring the environment, supervision plans, providing resources, setting realistic deadlines, staffing, financing, maintaining relationships

Strategies and procedures for conflict/dispute resolution

Case Study:

• Staff issues

Human Resources: Staff recruitment, Appraisal/PGC/ PLD; Employment contracts; Job descriptions

Cast Studies:

• Employment contract
• Job Description set-out

“It was good to understand the difference between leadership and management and just being aware of how to communicate effectively with others. Also understanding the different roles and how they all help each other. Understanding sometimes roles overlap.”

“It covered a lot of unanswered question around HR/Annual Plan/Self-Reviews.”

“It was really helpful. I learnt it’s good to review Job Descriptions, Policies and it was awesome to see how each centre does staff retention.“

An overview of the Professional Growth Cycle and its implementation and how it supports the sector’s professional growth. Our Code, Our Standards.  Leadership ERO Judgement Rubric.

Case Studies:

• Kaiako PGC
• Leaders’ PGC

The Teaching Council’s requirements for registration and mentoring

The link to ERO’s Quality Indicators/ERO Judgement Rubric

“Excellent delivery. Very helpful, informative, and engaging. There were so many gold nuggets shared by Dianne and also the other participants. Thoroughly enjoyed the content of everything shared. PGC was my interest today, and NELP.”

“I found the whole course very valuable. I had learnt so many new things as well as being refreshed. This had added more to my kete. The delivery was excellent, interactive, with great discussions and group work participation. Topics were very beneficial.”

Understanding what the NELP is, how it is implemented in daily teaching practices and how the NELP Objectives align with Te Whāriki, Te Ara Poutama, ERO Quality Indicators

Partnership with Parents/Whānau (Code 3. Commitment to Families and Whanau/Professional Teaching Standard – Professional Relationships, NELP 1 & 2)

Parent-teacher relationships and partnerships: Professional Relationship Teaching Standard, NELP 1

Considerations when dealing with parent complaints

“Very interactive, great information, knowledge, refresher, up to date current practices. Great facilitator – Delivery of information shared made very easy to listen/engage.”

“It is wonderful to sit down with like-minded people and discuss the challenges we face today”

Internal and External evaluation: ERO models.

The Strategic Plan – setting goals, progress against strategic plan. Where are we at and where are we going?

The Annual Plan: references to NELP

Strategic documentation – making links across documentation, coherence of Big Picture: Strategic Plan, Annual Plan, Quality Practice Model, Curriculum Design, Children’s Assessment, Evaluation for Quality,

Developing and reviewing policies; PGC and NELP in practice

“Change in my views of the annual management plan.”

“Lots of great knowledge and information shared which I need to work on to ensure it gets implemented. Eg. strategic plan.”

“Everything was a great refresher in some parts but I learnt new things in area of what we need to be documenting and how – How intentional I need to be.”

“Internal evaluation at our centre needs to be strengthened. Very valuable information.”

Leadership of Bicultural Practice C5, NELP 4. Educational Leadership Capability Framework – Teaching Council

Bicultural curriculum: Upholding Te Tiriti O Waitangi in daily teaching practices (C5) and constantly reflecting bicultural and multicultural practices (C6) in the service.

Understanding leadership through Māori, and Pasifika lenses and concepts (Tapasa) NELP 2

ERO: Exploring the review frameworks of Akunuku and Akarangi

ERO’s evaluation indicators and ERO Judgement Rubric

Responding to and evaluating the ERO report outcomes for forward action

“Refreshed knowledge of Partnership, Protection and Participation and I learnt about communication styles. I also got ideas about how to resolve conflict at work and deal with complaints”

“Learning the similarities between kohanga &ECE. Also learning new ways to do things. Change is good!”