Professional Learning Groups 

Having ERO inform you of an upcoming visit is often a time of high anxiety for professional leaders and teachers. This is understandable, as a review is a potentially high-stakes event. This webinar aims to provide leaders and teachers with direction and guidance for making your review a positive and rewarding experience. Experienced professional leaders who have been successful in achieving excellent results in their 2021 ERO reviews will share their stories and insights into their centres’ successes. This facilitated discussion will help you to identify key actions that you may need to take to put your service in the best position possible to achieve excellence in your own review.

Culture plays a central role in learners learning and in teachers’ teaching (whether we are aware of it or not). As teachers, we have the responsibility to cater for all children in ways that acknowledge and enhance their cultures, languages and identities. To do this effectively we must become increasingly culturally competent. Cultural competence is defined as “the ability of a person to effectively interact, work, and develop meaningful relationships with people of various cultural backgrounds” (de Guzman et al., 2016). This webinar will highlight some of the key attitudes and actions we must develop to be culturally competent. These include recognizing the effects our own cultural beliefs and biases have on our teaching, learning about other cultures in deep and meaningful ways and being able to walk in the shoes of those from cultures different to our own. This webinar builds on learning in our other recorded webinar "Unteach Racism and other biases."

How children develop and learn is an important factor in how we teach in an early years environment.

This collection of scavenger hunts is perfect for small group games in an early childhood environment. Simply print a scavenger hunt, grab a clipboard and pen, and work alongside your children in a challenge to find everything on your list.

There is never enough time to get everything we want to get done completed. Teaching and leading are never finished! This webinar provides strategies and tips to effectively prioritise your tasks and organize yourself in ways that minimize procrastination and inefficient use of time. The focus of this presentation is finding ways to get management and compliance tasks completed in a timely manner, therefore carving out more time for leading teaching and learning. If you find yourself drowning under an ever increasing to do list, this webinar is for you!