The KidsMatter Framework and
professional learning topics, provide services with a structure and tools to engage and shape ongoing conversations about mental health and wellbeing and reflect on their practice in this area.
Initially the leadership team met regularly to look at
the professional learning topics.
Remember members of your team receive certificates of participation when you decide with your facilitator that KidsMatter
Professional Learning topics are completed.
If you don't use any other surveys think about using the KidsMatter surveys that match the component your service is currently implementing and
the professional learning topics you are exploring.
With the flexibility of the KidsMatter Early Childhood Framework, you can focus your engagement with
the professional learning topics where best suits your context.
Professional learning topics were completed up to the end of Component 2 (with 10 sessions held including the introduction and welcome — and excluding public and school holidays).
These KidsMatter
Professional Learning topics focus on how early childhood educators can recognise and respond when children experience mental health difficulties.
On the website you will find ways to tour our online resources, explore
the professional learning topics, catch a webinar, contact a team member or participate in the social, reflective spaces available to our online collaborative learning community.
We have completed the 4
Professional Learning Topics from the first component — Creating a Sense of Community — and created ongoing goals as outlined below:
One starting option is to check out
the professional learning topics and choose own topics.
Following the 8 Core Topics you can establish many processes, practices and a greater understanding of how learning happens best at your place... perfect foundations for deciding how and when you branch into the remaining
professional learning topics that are also essential for growing healthy minds.
Participating in this event will be recorded as learning and actions towards your service completing the following KidsMatter
Professional Learning topics:
The collation of survey results, from within your community, can support your engagement with
professional learning topics:
identify how the goal connects to the KidsMatter
Professional Learning topics about creating a sense of community, developing children's skills, working with parents and carers and helping children experiencing difficulties.
Torquay Kids is now completing KidsMatter Early Childhood
Professional Learning topics about «Working with parents and carers».
The KidsMatter eBooks series in conjunction with the related KidsMatter
Professional Learning Topics can assist you with this.
The KidsMatter Framework has
professional learning topics with key messages about protective factors for children, families and educators mental health and wellbeing.
While completing
these professional learning topics, our staff team — both individually and as a group — have re-discovered, identified and celebrated our existing knowledge and skills.
There are also links to ideas for action and stories from other participating services that relate to individual
professional learning topics.
Thank you Gardner Farm Child Care for sharing the actions you are undertaking for keeping relationships central as you progress through the KidsMatter Early Childhood
professional learning topics.
Complete this form regularly to record:
Professional learning topics your service has started and completed your service's plans and actions relating to each topic self - assessment ratings of your service's progress against key implementation indicators
Our exploration of Component 3
professional learning topics further highlighted to us how supporting parents also supports the mental health and wellbeing of children.
Educators have found mentoring relationships can support how they undertake and progress through KidsMatter
professional learning topics.
These KidsMatter
Professional Learning topics focus on how early childhood educators can work in partnership with parents and carers in ways that support children's mental health and wellbeing.
While completing
the professional learning topics, our staff team — both individually and as a group — have re-discovered, identified and celebrated our existing knowledge and skills.
Participating in this event will be recorded as learning and action towards your service completing the following KidsMatter
Professional Learning topics:
And your answers and any changes in thinking or action that result are likely to relate to at least one of the KidsMatter
Professional learning topics and their outcomes.
Let your facilitator know... remember educators can receive certificates when
professional learning topics have been completed
You might also like to explore our KidsMatter
Professional Learning topics on creating a sense of community and building belonging and inclusion
Component 2
Professional Learning topics https://www.kidsmatter.edu.au/early-childhood/professional-learning/developing-childrens-social-and-emotional-skills
The number of Key Indicators connected to
the professional learning topics does vary; see below.
As an official KidsMatter service, a facilitator will support your leadership team as they guide your whole service through a range of
professional learning topics, where you will decide actions that you can do as individuals, teams and communities and then put these actions into daily practices and policy.
For Ashford, I send a weekly email - based loosely around
the Professional Learning Topics identified by the centre as most relevant to the team at the time.
This is because some Key Indicators are more relevant to certain
Professional Learning Topics than others are.
Which is perfect for deciding how and when you branch into the remaining
professional learning topics... after all, KidsMatter is all about continuous improvement.
making time for those leading the KidsMatter Professional Learning to plan, e.g. identifying
the professional learning topics to start with, schedule the times of learning and support the process of embedding the learning into everyday life.
The word from the early childhood world is that KidsMatter Early Childhood webinars complement the framework's
Professional Learning Topics and continuous improvement processes.
Our Professional Learning Topics, facilitators, and resources provide valuable tools and support for early childhood educators working to improve mental health outcomes for children attending early childhood services.
Be with services as they progress through KidsMatter Early Childhood
professional learning topics by being a critical friend or holding sessions with educators to support the current KidsMatter Early Childhood professional learning focus.
Using the existing
professional learning topics we've selected 8 Core Topics so you can progress through KidsMatter in a 12 month period... and get a great understanding of the whole KidsMatter Framework.
Following the 8 in 1 year approach you can establish many processes, practices and a greater understanding of how learning happens best at your place... perfect foundations for deciding how and when you branch into the remaining
professional learning topics that are also essential for growing healthy minds.
For individual or whole - of - service approaches to professional learning, the KidsMatter Early Childhood
Professional Learning topics could be the answer to accessing relevant, robust and affordable professional learning.
Working through
professional learning topics within a KidsMatter component can be supported by conducting surveys within your community.
All of ASCD's
professional learning topics and approaches are grounded in research and implemented with a focus on fidelity and consistency.
Importantly, current CTE educators ranked improving business and industry relationships — the hallmark of partnerships such as P - TECH — among their most essential
professional learning topics.
The information button is the gateway to examples of implementation and links to participating service and schools» stories that relate to the specific implementation key indicator and
your professional learning topic, or topics, in focus.
Remember to let your facilitator know when you finish
a Professional Learning Topic to get your certificate.
If you are losing motivation look at what your current challenges or interests are, and find
a professional learning topic or video that matches you current need.
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professionals attend SES Chicago each year to network and
learn about
topics such as PPC management, keyword research, SEO, social media, local, mobile, link building, duplicate content, multiple site issues, video optimization, site optimization, usability and more.