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Rediscovering the planning cycle: MTOP (V2.0)

Presented by Rod Soper, this practical course will help you rediscover the My Time, Our Place (V2.0) planning cycle and show you how it can be used to reinvigorate not only your thinking but also your approach to children’s learning and development.

By addressing common misconceptions, the course will outline how to avoid making mistakes when using the planning cycle and foster strong analytical thinking skills within teams.

Target audience: This course is suitable for educators at any stage of their career.

In this course, you will:

revisit and rediscover the planning cycle
learn about the common misconceptions related to the planning cycle
reflect on your thinking around the planning cycle
learn to approach planning with diversity of mind.

Category: ECA Subscriptions

Reignite your why

*** This is a recorded version of a live event ***

Join Catharine Hydon and special guests, Melinda Miller and Renee Mitchell, for Reignite Your Why — a vital conversation for early childhood professionals navigating pressure, change, and fatigue. In this reflective and energising webinar, we’ll explore what anchors us to our work, even amidst chaos, complexity, and constant change.

Category: Live Webinars

Respect: A guide to calm and nurturing infant care and education

Respect—defined as treating someone or something with consideration—should be the overarching feature that underpins the values and actions of educators. This module will unpack the practicality of respect in infant and toddler programs, with particular emphasis on primary caregiving, care rituals, settling processes, free movement and partnership with families.

This course will assist you to:

gain in-depth knowledge of what primary caregiving is and how it can be practically implemented in a group setting with infants
explore the settling process and the importance of authentic partnerships with families
understand free movement and its practical implications in an early childhood setting
discuss care moments and rituals and their place in infant education and care programs.

Category: ECA Subscriptions

Responding to harmful sexual behaviours: Birth to five

Educators work hard to maintain the safety of the children in their care. While there are many risks to mitigate, it is important to also consider the risk that children may experience harmful sexual behaviours from other children in your service. Your role is to reduce the risk, recognise the red flags, and respond and report.

In this course, you will learn about harmful sexual behaviours that may occur in a long day care setting. You will learn how to prevent, identify and respond to harmful sexual behaviours that may occur between the children in your care.

Learning outcomes

In this course, you will:

understand what sexual behaviours are developmentally appropriate in children and what behaviours are considered harmful
explore why some children engage in harmful sexual behaviours and what scenarios you may encounter in a long day care setting
discover educator expectations in reducing the risk and protecting children from sexual behaviours
examine ways to recognise the signs and indicators of harmful sexual behaviours and understand how to respond and report.

Recommended for: This course is suitable for early childhood education and care professionals at all stages of their careers.

Category: ECA Subscriptions

Responding to harmful sexual behaviours: OSHC

Educators work hard to maintain the safety of the children and young people in their care. While there are many risks to mitigate, it is important to also consider the risk that children and young people may experience harmful sexual behaviours from other children and young people in your service. Your role is to reduce the risk, recognise the red flags, and respond and report.

In this course, you will learn about harmful sexual behaviours that may occur in an outside school hours care setting. You will learn how to prevent, identify and respond to harmful sexual behaviours that may occur between the children and young people in your care.

Learning outcomes

In this course, you will:

understand which sexual behaviours are developmentally appropriate in children and young people and which are considered harmful
explore why some children and young people engage in harmful sexual behaviours and what scenarios you may encounter in an outside school hours care setting
discover educator expectations in reducing the risk and protecting children and young people from harmful sexual behaviours
examine ways to recognise the signs and indicators of harmful sexual behaviours and understand how to respond and report.

Recommended for: This course is suitable for early childhood education and care professionals at all stages of their careers.

Category: ECA Subscriptions

RS: Being the champion for children who are impacted by trauma and adversity

Category: Remote SCORMS

RS: Documenting and assessing children's learning with Dr Anne Kennedy

Category: Remote SCORMS

RS: Early Childhood Education for Sustainability: Now or never, a time for urgent change

Category: Remote SCORMS

RS: Every child has a right to be included

Category: Remote SCORMS

RS: Introduction to the National Quality Framework for early childhood education and care

Category: Remote SCORMS

RS: Professionalism and identity in early childhood education and care: Who we are and what we do

Category: Remote SCORMS

RS: Reconciliation in children's education and care: Taking the first steps

Category: Remote SCORMS

RS: Settling multiple children in early childhood education and care settings

Category: Remote SCORMS

Safe environments and responding to incidents

This course is designed to explore the relevant Regulations and laws in regards to health and safety within service environments. You will unpack and explore practical examples in managing risk, responding to incidents and safeguarding children from harm and hazards. The course will provide strategies for best practice in relation to safe environments, and ways to prevent risk of harm as a whole service approach. You will also discover health and safety considerations directly relating to child-safe environments, and how to manage these risks and incidents on an ongoing basis.

Category: Governance and risk management program

Secure transitions: Supporting children to feel secure, confident and included

Category: Research in Practice Series

Settling multiple children in early childhood education and care settings

The need for sleep and rest varies as children develop and grow, and in many cases, an early childhood setting is very different to the home sleep environment. This can cause restlessness and difficulty sleeping for children of all ages.

This on-demand webinar examines practical safe sleeping strategies for settling multiple children in Early Childhood Education and Care settings. It will examine many methods of settling groups of babies or children, as well as ways to discuss and work collaboratively with parents and caregivers to support a child in sleep.

In this course, you will:

develop skills and strategies to help settle multiple children
ensure that babies and children sleep safely while meeting quality standards as set out by ACECQA
discuss best practice and policies as they relate to sleep and rest
enhance your ability to offer sleeping experiences that are appropriate to your environment.

Category: ECA Subscriptions

STEM inquiry: Co-constructed environments for curious minds

This module invites early childhood educators and teachers to engage in inquiry-based, child-led STEM practices. It discusses common notions of STEM and unfolds what STEM in the early years looks like. The audience becomes aware of everyday learning opportunities relevant to children’s life and develops a basic understanding of co-constructed environments, the principles of inquiry-based learning and the concept of metacognition.

Through this module, participants will gain an understanding of:

STEM in an early years context
the educator’s role in STEM inquiry
why inquiry practices are important for children’s future
what inquiry-based and co-constructed learning is
how STEM inquiry links to Belonging, Being and Becoming: The Early Years Learning Framework for Australia.

Category: ECA Subscriptions

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