Access & inclusion: Starting school on equal footing - Coaching package
A coaching package for Early Childhood Educators to feel confident including all Kindergarten children, regardless of their needs, abilities, and behaviours.
Coaching for early childhood educators with a focus on inclusion of children with different abilities, backgrounds, and behaviours
Knowledge about diversity is fundamental to effective inclusive practice. Ensuring each child starts school with a positive foundation of skills and knowledge is of paramount importance.
Through the exploration of individual needs and needs profiles for the children in our care, we are best placed to understand how to design programs that ensure individual factors are consistently considered and planned for.
Inclusion, at its core needs to support children and families of all backgrounds and abilities to form friendships and a sense of belonging.
Skills developed within this program have a positive effect on inclusion and access. Educators will reflect and evaluate current teaching and learning programs by using evidence and data from their own observations and critical / professional reflections (behaviour analysis and action plan). Classroom routines will be examined to ensure that teaching and learning programs are thoughtfully and professionally planned and implemented with prevention practices at the forefront.
In this bundle you will...
Identify potential barriers and solutions to access and inclusion of all children and families
Identify common ways in which different behaviour may be communicating needs from children with different abilities
Understand the vital importance of supporting children’s behaviour as a foundation of forming relationships
Promote ‘being’ in children from all backgrounds through respectful celebration of diversity in all forms
Explore differences in physical development and sensory - motor development and coordination, and how to plan for these differences in early childhood classrooms
Here are all the courses that are included in your bundle.
This program is lead by Sandi Phoenix, BPsychSc, who will oversee a team of three other coaches. You'll be assigned a 'key coach' who will be your point of contact all year, they will be in the monthly webinars. Webinar coaching sessions will be facilitated by Dr Louise Porter.
Sandi Phoenix
Tara Hill
Elise Waghorn
Dr Louise Porter
The answer is a grand total of 17 hours over the course of the year
You have 6 weeks to complete this course. We suggest doing it over 2 consecutive weeks if you can. It will need to be completed by the end of March at the latest. Reading and reflecting (3.5 hours), videos (1 hour), and live Q&A panel (30 mins). Total : 5 hours
These live online coaching and mentoring sessions are scheduled for 30 minutes each month from Jan-Dec. We suggest planning to attend most of these. Total: 6 hours
We suggest planning time to write reflections, research, plan and document for at least 30 minutes per month. Total: 6 hours
We have a coaching bundle for each priority area - or why not get all three in the Complete School Readiness Coaching Package
All Courses, School Readiness
A complete package of school readiness coaching that addresses all three priority areas: Wellbeing, Communication, and Access & Inclusion
All Courses, School Readiness
All Courses, School Readiness
All Courses, School Readiness
A little more info if you need it...
* Webinar coaching sessions will be scheduled for a similar date / time each month. Sessions will be live and will not be recorded. We recommend attending at least 6 of these throughout your package but you are welcome to join every month.
** Professional learning notebook gifted by ESRE www.esreproductions.com.au . Other downloads, handouts, and readings are developed by Dr Louise Porter and Sandi Phoenix.
*** You are entitled to a 1:1 coaching call per term, with a maximum of four phone calls. Additional calls can be purchased at an additional cost throughout the year. You can also book a face to face, on-site coaching day with your key coach at an additional cost. These are subject to availability, so we recommend booking early.