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This episode is all about giving listeners some powerful, child-centred strategies to guide children's behaviour. It is all about empowering educators with the confidence to build strong relationships and manage their classrooms and learning environments to ensure a safe and supportive space for all.

• Supporting children’s behaviour - Early Years Learning Hub

In this episode I speak with Dr William DeJean Founder & CEO Unleash Learning about the challenges of engaging with evidence-based professional learning and making practice changes. We discuss the amount of information that teachers, educators and leaders are exposed to and how this can be overwhelming and create a barrier to learning and improvement.

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This is the first of 4 episodes in conversation with Su Garrett the owner and director of the excellent rated service- Explore and Develop Annandale. In this episode Su talks about her service's approach to sustainability, embedding all dimensions across all aspects of the program and service operation.

This week’s podcast episode is one of our Professional learning tapas series and it is all about Critical reflection in action. In this episode I share some insights into why we need to critically reflect, what to reflect on and how to record it. The episode includes an example from my own practice, where I talk about our service’s response to a serious incident involving child protection that happened late last year. It was very challenging and stressful at the time but it prompted us to really reflect on what we were doing to keep children safe. If you would like to find out more go to our website and purchase our critical reflection course, it has 2 modules that step you through every aspect of critical reflection. It is great value for money as it includes scaffolds, templates, examples of question to guide critical reflection across all of our work. Listeners of our podcast receive a 25% discount on all purchases simply enter POD25 at the checkout.

• Critical reflection - Early Years Learning Hub

In this episode I am joined by Dr Gai Lindsay to discuss all things visual arts. Gai is an amazing expert and advocate for the arts in early childhood. Hopefully this episode will inspire you to take a journey with children to learn the language of the arts!

• Art Play and Inquiry by Gai Lindsay | The Why, What and How of Visual Arts Education with Young Children | 9781032911960 | Booktopia

In this practice sharing episode I am joined by Nick Stephens, a male Early Childhood Teacher who works at a preschool in Western Sydney. We discuss the importance of a diverse workforce and what an impact male teachers and educators can have on children. We also discuss the issues and challenges males in early childhood and the early years of school face.

This is the first of our professional learning tapas series where we aim to give you some quick and easily digested professional learning on the go. Often these episodes link back to some of our courses, so if you like what you hear you can purchase a course or membership to our online networking to find out more.

Today we are talking about knowing your stuff. I wanted to start here because it is the foundation of everything I will talk to your about in our podcast. It really is key to everything you do as a teacher, educator and leader.

Early childhood curriculum and pedagogy

Quality area 1: Program and practice resources

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This is the first in our ‘Unpacking theory and research’ series where I invite academics, researchers and experts to tell us what the theory, research or contemporary understandings mean for our day to day practice and our work as teachers, educators and leaders. This episode is about practice architectures and what this means for how we develop as professionals and the sorts of conditions that enabe high-quality practice.

I am delighted to be joined by Dr Leanne Gibbs, Senior Lecturer, School of Education, Charles Sturt University and Dr Mandy Cooke School of Education, Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University both renowned academics on this topic.

• Practice Architectures ECE – The Theory of Practice Architectures in Early Childhood Education - For more information about Mandy and Leanne's work.
• Deconstructing early childhood practices - The Spoke – Early Childhood Australia's Blog

This is the very first episode of our series titled 'Practice sharing' where I have a chat with another teacher, educator or leader about topics that I think might be of interest to the education sector. It could be that person has some great ideas or is even an expert in that area. In this episode we are talking about one of the hottest topics around- assessment and planning! Our guest speaker today is Lauren Tinslay, an Early Childhood Teacher who is very reflective and thoughtful in her approach to assessment and planning. Throughout this pod we unpack and discuss the requirements, what each stage of the cycle looks like and how we develop effcetive and efficient systems that both meet requirements and work for us. If you would like to find out more about assessment and planning take a look at our extensive range of courses that you can buy separately or as a bundle and save$$$. Go to: ⁠https://earlyyearslearninghub.com.au/product/assessment-and-planning-bundle/⁠

Welcome to our introductory episode where we explain what we will be talking about, the types of episodes, how the Early Years Learning Hub came to be and the professional journey of our fonder and Managing Director- Jacqui Ward.