Everything you need to support shared learning for inspired practice in your team

The Team eLearning package engages your team in:

- shared learning as a professional learning community, and for continuous improvement (NQS 7.2)

- professional collaboration and critical reflection (NQS 4.2)

- supported individual learning and development of professionals (NQS Element 7.2.3)

See full details of our 4 Team eLearning Package options here:

What's in your Team eLearning Package?

Your team receives BOTH: 

1. TEAM SHARE access for the nominated service leader: for 2 years

TEAM SHARE provides a professional learning planner and tools to:

• share the course videos and presentations within one centre team of up to 26 staff. Please contact us for a quote for larger teams.
• plan your teams' professional learning based on priorities - by selecting relevant topics within the course video presentations and videos 
• invite reflective conversations in team meetings - by starting and stopping videos at relevant sections to discuss further
• consider new ideas and plan quality improvement strategies together
  
  

2. FULL ONLINE COURSE for 7 selected educators: with 2 years access

Selected educators engage in and revisit the full course content and resources, with learning checks

• The selected educators are often self-nominated for their own desired professional development
• Centre leaders can also select educators to complete the course as a performance guidance tool, OR to develop as a lead educator/mentor so they are supported to guide and inspire other team members
• These selected educators explore the full online course content and printable resources in sequence to reflect on and use in practice 
• Access to the full ONLINE COURSE includes: printable workbook/s, videos and presentations, resources, templates and learning checks
• Participants receive a certificate on course completion, and are able to revisit the course within two years following registration

Note:
Discounted fee options are available for additional team members, or for your whole team, to engage in the full online course. 
See pricing options for each package, by clicking on the relevant Team eLearning package.

Or support your team with our 'Protect - Rethink - Transform & Flourish: team learning toolkit'

Flourish together: open up shared ongoing learning and inspired practice in your team

Contact us to book a consultation meeting

• Pikler approach: developing repectful practice
• Behaviour rethink: towards wellbeing and cup filling
• Inspired documentation- from slog to meaningful and personal
• Cultural competence and respecting our First Peoples
  
  

Create active learning environments for authentic learning, and write personal and meaningful stories of learning

Is your team caught in the bustle of providing and managing activities to churn out bulk documentation, so you can tick off children’s ‘learning’? This workshop explores how to bust the shallow documentation grind. We discuss ways to capture and build from each child’s ideas, learning dispositions, interests and abilities through a play-based curriculum. Understand the value in stepping back as educators to intentionally observe, document and plan for each child’s authentic progress in the important stuff – identity, connection, wellbeing, learning and communication.

Topics include:

• Using learning outcomes as long-term goals to plan the curriculum
• Planning and providing active learning environments, both indoors and outdoors to inspire children to engage in rich play-based learning experiences.
• Who are we writing a story of learning for and why?
• Know each child: collect meaningful information to plan the program
• Writing a personal and meaningful ‘story of learning’.
  
  

Pikler inspired approach: developing respectful practice

Topics include:

• Consider ways to develop trusting, respectful relationships and emotional security
• Discuss the value of 'slowing down', and giving full attention, especially during the care routines
• Evaluate practice and discuss ways to develop trust, autonomy and competence by doing 'with' and not 'to' babies and children
• Tune into children's cues and consider ways to adapt routines and mealtimes for wellbeing
• Reflect on ways to promote freedom of movement and allow for the natural unfolding of physical development
• List questions to further explore about Pikler inspired pedagogy, and to provide uninterrupted play for babies and children
  
  

Cultural competence and respecting our First Peoples

Topics include:

• Practical activity: Reflecting an awareness of your own and other cultural ways of knowing, seeing and living
• The relevance of culture and family to each child's sense of belonging and being
• The benefits of diversity and honouring cultural differences
• Acknowledging and respecting the impact of events and issues in Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander history
• Demonstrating respect for our First Peoples' ways of knowing and being in everyday curriculum
• Using resources and experiences to respect cultural differences

Team professional learning workshop fee

• For bookings with up to 15 participants each workshop is $550 + GST ($605 including GST)
• Each additional person booked to attend is charged at $30 per person
• An individual quote is required for any team workshop bookings with 28 or more people
• We travel within a 1 hour radius of North Lakes at no additional charge. Travel costs are able to be discussed and arranged to enable First Door to come to your team.
  
  

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Are you and your team focused on Quality and Improvement? 

Partner with First Door for guidance and vision focus. We bring fresh perspective, updating, supporting and guiding your team towards growth and improvement in a selected Quality Standard that is relevant for your team.

Popular Quality Standard Partner Packages with centre teams have related to National Quality Standards: 

• QA1, Standard 1.1: The educational program enhances each child's learning and development.
• QA1, Standard 1.3: Educators and co-ordinators take a planned and reflective approach to implementing the program for each child.
• QA3, Standard 3.2: The service environment is inclusive, promotes competence and supports exploration and play-based learning.
• QA3, Element 3.2.3: The service cares for the environment and supports children to become environmentally responsible.
• QA7, Standard 4.2: Management, educators and staff are collaborative, respectful and ethical.
• QA7, Element 7.1.1: A statement of philosophy guides all aspects of the service's operations. 
   

First Door is also able to supply our professional learning to educators and teams in eligible Kindergarten services through funding by the Queensland Government Kindy uplift program. Please contact us for a consultation meeting to discuss these opportunities.

What does the Quality Standard Partner Package include?

Three Consultation Meetings

Consultation meetings are usually with the Centre Director, and the Educational Leader and/or a Management stakeholder. These are generally 90 minute meetings, unless otherwise arranged. We include a final written report of recommendations.

The consultation meeting framework:
Meeting 1: 

• Discuss current industry trends relating to this Quality Standard
• Explore and identify current strengths and issues for the identified Quality Standard, and update these findings in the Quality Improvement Plan

Meeting 2: 

• Based on meeting 1, we discuss ideas and requirements for quality improvement relating to this Quality Standard
• Identify realistic, measurable goals that are time frame related
• These goals are updated in the Quality Improvement Plan with success measures

Meeting 3: 

• Fine tune the discussed ideas and strategies following the Professional Conversations workshop
• Update the Quality Improvement Plan with agreed strategies and any progress notes

Professional Development Workshop

Following the first two consultation meetings, this two hour professional development workshop is based on the identified issues and goals for improvement. This interactive workshop is facilitated for the whole team to gain shared understandings and identify with the shared vision and goals for improvement.

Professional Conversations Workshop

Following the team professional development workshop, we follow up with a two hour Professional Conversations workshop with a smaller focus group (e.g. Lead educators). In this workshop we use critical reflection to examine the shared issue using the ‘ask, look, think, do’ process:

• ASK: reflect on existing systems/practice
• LOOK & THINK: gain insights from different perspectives and consider new ideas
• DO: reach shared understanding of new strategies and identify actions to be taken. 
  
  

The Quality Standard Partner Package fee is $1,975. This fee is priced for a team of up to 24 and within Brisbane area. We are happy to quote for larger teams and to travel with the travel costs charged additionally. 

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