Cick here for our NEW Professional Development Training Calendar for March to June 2012

Training for 2012

This professional development training provides details of the sessions that will be offered by fka Children’s Services between March and June 2012.

Information about professional development sessions from July-December 2012 will be added to our website www.fka.com.au as the information becomes available.

The beginning of 2012 will signify many exciting rewards and challenges for Early Childhood Services as they begin to implement key changes to service provision and programs as required under the National Quality Frameworks.

The guiding principles of the National Quality Frameworks:

• The rights and best interests of the child are paramount
• Children are successful, competent and capable learners
• Equity, inclusion and diversity underpin the framework
• Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures are valued
• The role of parents and families is respected and supported
• Best practice is expected in the provision of education and care services (Guide to the National Quality Standard, DEEWR, 2011. pg.8) are the foundation values underpinning the provision of quality inclusive practice by educators.

Based on the principles of the National Quality Frameworks fka Children’s Services have developed and scheduled professional development training to support and empower educators to implement culturally competent programs.

Each professional development session has been created to support cultural competency consistent with the of the National Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF), Victorian Early Years Learning and Development Framework (VEYLDF) and the My Time, Our Place—Framework for School Age Care in Australia (FSAC).

All sessions can be attended as stand alone professional development sessions and are developed as a themed series to offer educators the opportunity to build on their knowledge and specific areas of interest.

Language Series
Participants will gain a better understanding of the issues children learning English as an Additional Language may face.

These sessions explore strategies that support children to maintain their home language while learning English as an Additional Language in a partnership approach with families.

Disability Series
Cultural perceptions of disability are unique to each family; supporting families who have a child with a disability can be complex, particularly where values and beliefs may differ. Participants will have the opportunity to reflect on their experiences and enhance their awareness of effective inclusion based on respectful relationships with families and children.

Diversity and Equity Series
These sessions will support participants to provide culturally inclusive learning environments based on the underlying principles of the National Quality Framework.

Play Series
These sessions, will provide participants with opportunities to enhance, and extend on their knowledge through interactive case studies focusing on sustained shared thinking, program planning and critical reflection.

Partnership Series
Encompasses the importance of building respectful and responsive relationships, not only with families and children from CALD backgrounds, but with the educators with whom we work.

Booking process

Registrations for all calendared Professional Development training sessions can be made by completing the form on this page and return to fka Children’s Services: Mail: fka Children’s Services, 1st Floor, 9-11 Stewart Street, Richmond, 3121, Email: fkaCS@fka.com.au or Fax: 03 9429 9252.

Commonwealth Subsidised Professional Development Training
In the first half of 2012 fka Children’s Services is delivering six subsidised training sessions for Commonwealth funded services. 

Please note that these sessions can be booked directly with fka Children’s Services on the registration form provided on this page. Fill in section A of the booking form.

Once the enrolment has been processed, your information will be forwarded to Community Child Care, who will issue an invoice for the cost of Commonwealth subsidised training. If you are employed in a non-Commonwealth funded service and would like to attend the Commonwealth subsidised sessions please contact fka Children’s Services.

Fee for Service Training
fka Children’s Services is able to provide professional development training on a Fee for Service basis on many aspects of cultural diversity and multiculturalism. Our experienced, Children’s Services Consultants will come to your service or community and deliver customised training, giving your staff the opportunity to attend professional development in house at a time convenient to the needs of the service.

For further information about non calendared subsidised training and customised fee for service training please call 9428 4471 and talk to our General Manager, Kerrie Tardio, to discuss your professional development training needs.