Professional Development Topics

Having a solid team is the foundation of how to provide a quality educational setting for our tamariki. This workshop provides an insight into the varieties of learners, roles of the team members, recognition of varying temperaments and strategies to bring the of all those varieties together to create cohesiveness and comradery. 

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This workshop will showcase what the role of an authentic mentor is. It discusses what the expectations are of a mentor and their mentee and how best to form a solid and trusting relationship with your mentee so that you can support and empower them to thrive. The workshop also offers strategies of how to support reflection, carry out and document robust observation and ensure growth. 

Children are born wanting to take risks - this is how they learn in an autonomus and empowering way. As educators, it is vital that we allow them the freedom and space to take risks. This workshop delves into the benefits of providing this type of environment and how you can come together as a commuity to support our learners to do so, safely. 

Tamariki and their learning is simply not linear or finite. Learning dispositions offer a perspective of learning that encourages both continuity of learning showing that their learning is infinite and that learning is cyclical. 

We delve into Te Whāriki and discuss how it encourages the implementation of assessing learning with a dispositional lens. It provides you with many exemplars of how a learning disposition focused assessment can look.  

Respect is the only way. Period. This workshop walks through each of the RIE guiding principles while articulating the importance of each and every one. It also relates each principle to the connection that can be had between team members. We discuss how you can implement each principle and how to gradually modify your current processes to become a Pikler inspired setting. 

This workshop is for you if you would like to understand the 'why' behind the importance of empowering tamariki to become kaitiakitanga. We explore the relevance of ensuring we are supporting a culture of sustainability and caring for our land, from our littlest of babes through to adulthood. You will be offered practical strategies to begin fostering this culture in your setting and how to engage your wider community.