Sign up now - free professional development for Early Childhood educators

The Skilling an Adaptable Early Childhood Education and Care Workforce (SAEW) Project is now open for sign up and our suite of E-Learning Training Modules are available from next week for Educators across Victoria.

In partnership with Gowrie Victoria and the Y Ballarat, the SAEW Project aims to strengthen the workplace skills, capabilities, and career pathways of early childhood educators. The project offers participants E-Learning Training Modules covering Teaching Pedagogy, Personal Development and Regulatory Frameworks. The E-Learning will work towards embedding best practices within the Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) workforce. Additionally, participants in the project will have exclusive access to the SAEW Community Hub, a bespoke professional networking platform, connecting educators, providing additional training resources and workshops.

The E-Learning Training Modules will include:

• Relationships with families
• Supporting children with additional needs
• Trauma informed practice
• Professional identity, ethics, and teaching philosophy
• Intentionality in learning environments
• Foundational practice:
  • The arts in practice
  • Routines and rituals
  • Using digital technologies with children
  • Running a group time.
• Educator wellbeing
• Working in a team.
• Embedding the Child Safe Standards.

All the e-learning training modules have interactive elements including quizzes and real-world case studies to reinforce learning and to assist participants in applying the learning to educational settings.

Places are limited, so secure your free place in the SAEW Project now.