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Understanding young children’s behaviour and empowering their future (2-part series)

This series is suitable for all educators currently working in an approved education and care setting across Australia. This is a foundation course that focuses on essential knowledge to guide children’s behaviour and may be suitable for educators who are new to the sector or embarking on a formal early childhood qualification.

To effectively support and guide young children’s behaviour, it is essential that educators develop an understanding of the form and function of children’s behaviour. Developing an understanding of the meaning of children’s behaviour will in turn support educators in developing strategies and teaching techniques unique for each individual child, with the overall aim of empowering children to take control.

In part 1 of this series, you will:

  • understand why behaviour is a form of communication that can help educators to develop a better understanding of each individual child
  • learn how children regulate their emotions, thoughts and behaviours.

In part 2 of this series, you will:

  • develop strategies to support children in times of stress, frustration or anger
  • discover and recognise the signs and meanings behind children’s behaviours and strategies to support young children
  • uncover how to understand children’s triggers and what these can look like.
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Using Critical Reflection

This course explains how critical reflection forms a crucial part of professional practice in early childhood education and care. It will provide you with a model and suggestions on how to make critical reflection a positive part of your everyday practice.

In this course, you will:

  • learn how to support children’s learning, development and wellbeing through critical reflection
  • explore the three elements integral to your success as a critical thinker: self-awareness, developing relationships with others, and building your own and your team’s knowledge
  • be introduced to the Circle of Change Revisited model of critical thinking.
Category: ECA Subscriptions

Visual arts in early childhood settings

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Category: Everyday Learning Series

Walking with children on their journey to literacy: Practitioner perspectives 

Literacy is a journey. Children make meaning from letters, numbers, and symbols and begin to understand patterns from birth. This module looks at the key elements of literacy and the practical ways it can be woven into everyday moments, rich environments and fostered with children from the earliest years.

After completing this course, you will:

  • consider early childhood philosophies that view the development of literacy skills as part of a life-long journey from birth
  • understand your role as an educator and the how the environment can support pre-literacy skills and dispositions
  • identify the importance of the role of choice and enjoyment in developing literacy skills in the everyday.
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Wellbeing matters: Let your wellbeing thrive!

This webcast will get you thinking about ‘listening to hear’ vs ‘listening to respond’, being present during conversations with others while building a greater sense of wellbeing for yourself, your team and the children. This course is designed for leaders, either of teams, services or within an organisation or scheme.

In this course you will:

  • examine the importance of play
  • understand the importance of listening
  • learn skills to give feedback
  • look at ways to know your team.
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Working in intercultural ways: Relational perspectives

This course is for all educators at any stage of their reconciliation and cultural responsiveness journey. It is also for those who want to continue or renew and rediscover knowledge on their reconciliation journey, individually or as part of their service team.

In this course, you will explore reconciliation through a relational lens, highlighting the importance of working in intercultural ways and seeking knowledge about having an authentic connection to Country and local Aboriginal communities. You will have the opportunity to understand the importance of your role, individually and collectively, in supporting and facilitating connections with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. A focus on understanding custodianship and the protocols surrounding these connections is explored in depth. The case studies included highlight the importance of responsive and reciprocal relationships, and why these are central to connecting and working in intercultural ways with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. You will also discover examples of how to create culturally safe and responsive learning environments that are respectful and that value integrity, whilst also taking children on the journey of reconciliation through meaningful engagement, relationship building, and understanding the importance of spending time and caring for Country from an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspective. 

Category: Working in intercultural ways program

Working with the ECA Code of Ethics

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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Young children online

Category: Everyday Learning Series

Your home, your business (2-part series)

Partnership statement

This series of two online learning modules is a collaboration between Family Day Care Australia and Early Childhood Australia.

Learners will be guided through a series of concepts where they can learn how to set up their family day care business, understand their responsibilities under the National Law and National Regulations and access information and support materials from Family Day Care Australia.

The ‘Your home, your business’ learning resource aims to enhance the knowledge and confidence of educators in managing their family day care business.

Course overview

This learning resource aims to enhance the knowledge and confidence of educators in managing their family day care business. It has been developed as a result of feedback Family Day Care Australia has received from educators that managing the business side of their family day care can be a little challenging at times, especially when they are first starting out.

The vast majority of family day care educators are engaged by services as independent contractors rather than employees, which means they are effectively self-employed. This resource is designed primarily with these educators in mind.

To allow you to explore each learning concept in detail, this course is split into two parts.

Part 1 will explore how to get started in family day care, some business basics and how to promote and market your business.

Part 2 will explore how to manage your money, simple business administration strategies and how to build key relationships with stakeholders.

This course is suitable for family day care educators at all stages of their career as well as educators who may be thinking of setting up a family day care business. The course may also be of interest to family day care services in conducting orientation courses for new educators.

After completing part one of the course, you will be able to apply the following learning outcomes.

  • Discover how to get started in family day care.
  • Explore a range of tips and business basics.
  • Understand how to promote and market your business.

After completing part two of the course, you will be able to apply the following learning outcomes.

  • Discover essential money-management strategies and tools to support the effective management of your business.
  • Explore a variety of business administration techniques and information to support you and your business.
  • Understand why key relationships are essential in building your family day care business.
Category: ECA Subscriptions
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