Are you ready to return to the heart of early childhood education and care?
This comprehensive online package will support you, whether you are new to the sector, or an 'old-hat' looking for new inspiration, to rediscover, refine, and strengthen the core practices that make a meaningful impact in your day-to-day work with children. This self-paced package includes 10 expertly designed courses that cover foundational topics essential for early childhood educators.
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Rediscovering Core Practices in Early Childhood Education and Care
Reinvest in yourself and your practice with the Back to Basics Mini Course Collection. Access 10 self-paced, online mini courses designed to reignite your passion, overcome common challenges, and make a meaningful impact in your day-to-day work with children.
Ready to Dive Into the Huge Variety of Topics Included?
- Brain Development:Â Understanding the basics of how a child's brain develops supports educators when they are planning environments and programs, interacting with children, and documenting their play and learning.
- Wellbeing:Â Discover how your practice and environment can positively influence children's wellbeing and understand why it matters.
- Involvement:Â What does involvement look like? Why does it matter? In this mini course we explore the concept of involvement and how our interactions, environments and routines and rhythms play an important part in enhancing involvement.
- Behaviour:Â Are you feeling challenged by children's behaviour? Why is that? Are children "behaving worse" or are we missing an opportunity to really understand who children are and what they need?
- Relationships:Â In this mini course, we encourage you to reflect on how you can strengthen your relationships with children, families, colleagues and management, and community.
- Observation:Â Explore the in's and outs of observation in this mini course. Meaningful observation leads to high quality programs, environments and practice.
- Environments: You’ll get practical ideas for setting up inviting indoor spaces, creating outdoor areas that celebrate nature and movement, and tackling everyday challenges that can get in the way.
- Interactions:Â This course is an opportunity to pause and reflect on the art of meaningful interaction - where respect, empathy, and genuine connection come to life in our practice.
- Professionalism:Â What does it mean to be a professional? What does a professional look, sound or act like? In this mini course, we explore the basics of what it means to be an early childhood professional.
- Teams:Â Making our teams effective and cohesive has a massive impact on overall wellbeing in an education and care service. In this mini course we explore some practical ways to do exactly that!Â
Ready to Commit to your Professional Development?
This self-paced package includes 10 mini courses, unpacking key topics essential for early childhood educators to work effectively with children, families and coworkers, this package also offers:
- Self-Paced Convenience: Finding time for professional development can feel impossible. This package offers you the ability to learn at your own pace, anytime, anywhere.
- Practical and Relevant Content: Training opportunities sometimes fail to address the unique challenges of different early childhood settings. This package addresses common struggles, focusing on real-world strategies that can be applied in Long Day Care and home-based care, as well as in school-aged settings.
- Affordable Investment:Â Professional development can be expensive! This package provides excellent value by bundling multiple courses into one affordable price, with a variety of payment options.
If you're sitting there now thinking.... YES, YES, YES! (and why wouldn't you be?) You can register for the package right now!
Wondering 'What is an Inspired EC mini course'?
Inspired EC mini courses are designed to be inspiring and practical - an on-demand learning opportunity connecting theory, ideas and inspiration with strategies and actionable steps that will enhance your practice in your work with children. Our mini courses will guide you to consider your unique context, engage in research and reflective practice, and evolve to meet the needs of the children, families and communities in which you work.
