Professional Development and our Quality Improvement Plan (QIP)

Over the past 4 months our team have been involved in ongoing professional development.  This has meant that we have also started to really reflect on our programs and practices.  Both personal and professional reflections are important to help each of us look deeper into ourselves, and also be able to understand where we are going both as an individual and a team.

With this in mind we then move to ensure all of this transfers into our QIP.  A Quality Improvement Plan (QIP) is a document that identifies the service's goals for quality improvement and notes some strategies for achieving those goals. It helps everyone at the service to stay focused on the improvements and on implementing the strategies needed to achieve the goals.

Around the service, we have commenced making children's learning more visible. This will become more evident as we progress over the next few months.  We are currently focusing on ensuring that the Centre is involved as a whole and then we will be asking for further input from all our families and community.

https://www.acecqa.gov.au/nqf/national-quality-standard

https://www.acecqa.gov.au/assessment/quality-improvement-plans

Professional Development completed

-Giving and receiving great feedback

-Speech Development in under 5's

-QIP: from inception to implementation

-Survival guide for leaders: finding your magic

-Maths in everyday

-Working with children's behaviour

-Documenting solutions-making learning visable

-In Safe Hands-Child Protection

-Navigating Complexity: The indoor-outdoor learning environment

-How to simplify-The planning cycle

-Masterclass on optimising visual learning

-Linking observations/analysis and reflections

-Planning for outdoor areas

-Learning professional practice in long day care

-Playing with gratitude

-Code of ethics

-Infection control Training-COVID-19

-Educational Leader-Learning the art of compromise

-Talking to parents about hard stuff

-Helping children to self reflect

-Emotional-Freedom-Technique

-Critical Reflection

-STEM in early childhood

-Partnerships with families

-Acting ethically-exploring the code of ethics

-Documenting and Assessing Children's Learning