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Designed to enhance your employability, our courses have been designed so you never feel like you’re being left behind. Tailor your education by selecting one or more courses most relevant to where you see yourself in the future.

Child Protection
All children have the right to experience high quality education and care, in a learning environment that provides for their protection through appropriate supervision, safe experiences and environments, and emergency preparedness. This workshop will engage educators in the legislative requirements, professional ethical standards and responsibilities of child protective practices. Educators will be identifying with abuse indicators for children who may be at risk, review Mandatory reporting and gain understanding in notifying procedures and practices for documenting disclosures.

Workplace Health and Safety
This workshop identifies with legislative requirements around the protection and prevention in the health and safety and welfare of all workers at work.

Team Building, Stress and Time Management
This workshop explores the functions, roles and responsibilities of a team and team orientated concepts and presents to staff triggers for their stresses in education and how to manage these effectively.

Sustainability
This professional development will explore the meaning of sustainability and the importance of allowing children to be involved in everyday practices that reflect this.

Safe Environments – Through their eyes
Through their eyes training has been developed by the Department of Human Services to assist organisations providing services to children and young people to support their staff and volunteers to recognise, report and respond to children or young people who may be at risk of harm and build their capacity to provide safe environments within the organisation.

Reflection in the Planning Cycle
This workshop aims to explore what reflective practice is and the processes that educators engage in as reflective practitioners. Delivery Options: In Service, ACCCO Campus, Online.

Responding to and handling complaints
This workshop draws to the challenging situations of handling complaints. Effective communication, having clear and concise policy and procedures, and understanding everyone’s rights throughout the process is very necessary for the effective resolution of issues and concerns raised about the service.

Positive and Respectful Relationships with Children
Throughout this workshop there is an emphasis on promoting positive behaviours for expression, participation and supporting children’s relationships with others.

Planning for babies and toddlers
This workshop focuses on staff techniques when working with babies and toddlers and explores the specific needs of this age group through: understanding of child development and foundations for life, shared information for supporting the welfare and care of these young people, and considerations for planning and setting up environments for this specific age.

Physical Environment in Early Childhood & OSHC
This workshop aims to engage educators in thinking about the physical environment including the facilities, furniture and resources, then linking how the environment supports children’s learning and developmental outcomes.

Numeracy, Literacy and Inquiry based learning
This workshop is building upon an educator’s skill set and incorporating literacy, numeracy and inquiry-based learning into the everyday program and planning. Exploring the reasons for creating literacy and numeracy enriched environments, discovering how it can be embedded into everyday life and play experiences and involves the children to be active and engaged learners.

Nature Play and the Value of the Outdoors
This workshop explores what is nature play and the opportunities for learning that children can experience from the outdoors. Delivery Options: In Service, ACCCO Campus, Online.

Music and Movement
This workshop has been designed with practical ideas for understanding forms of music and movement, making music, elements that make music and movement fun. Delivery Options: In Service.

Guiding and Supporting Children’s Behaviour
This workshop explores core guidelines for promoting positive behaviour, contributing factors to behaviours and practical and meaningful strategies for engaging children in positive behaviours. Delivery Options: In Service, ACCCO Campus, Online.

Effective Supervision
This workshop explores the definition of supervision, its relationship within the National Quality Standards, and what makes supervision effective. Delivery Options: In Service, ACCCO Campus, Online.

Documentation in Early Childhood Settings
This workshop aims to provide some insight into educators professional practice including styles of documentation, linkages to approved learning framework and national quality standards, and making documentation visible. Delivery Options: In Service, ACCCO Campus, Online.

Effective Communication & Building Professional Relationships
This workshop is designed to support educators understanding in what is effective communication is and the forms that this can take. A focus is drawn on both workforce and individuals’ strategies that connect to staffing and leadership and management areas of the National Quality Standards. Delivery Options: In Service, ACCCO Campus, Online.

Curriculum Planning
This workshop aims to engage educators in understanding what is a curriculum and how it contributes to each child’s learning and developmental outcomes. Delivery Options: In Service, ACCCO Campus, Online.
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