Friday 1st August, 2014

Workshop Preview & Presenter Bios Mingara Recreation Club, Central Coast NSW 17th June 2017

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Company: Semann & Slattery

Conference Workshop: ‘Finding the Fun as an Early Childhood Professional‘

Could this be a joke? Can you really have fun and joy in your role as an early childhood professional and what would occur if we viewed our role as a vocation not a job? Simon Sinek famously said ‘If you do something you don’t like it’s called hard work, if you do something you love it’s called passion’. During this presentation Anthony will explore the role of joy, fun and passion and how we might bring these ideas to reality than keeping them a dream. EYLF & MTOP Principle: Ongoing Learning & Reflective Practice NQS: QA4 & QA7

About Anthony: As a Director and founder of Semann & Slattery, Anthony’s passion and exceptional capacity to challenge organisations and people to reflect on how their approaches to communication, leadership, diversity, values, relationships and workplace culture affect their services, businesses and ultimately the community!

Be prepared to have your thinking challenged!

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Company: Semann & Slattery Conference Workshop: Succession Planning – How we can plan to be more proactive in our roles We can’t sit back and hope things won’t happen. We need to be proactive in building a culture which responds rather than reacts. Succession planning is for everyone. From the Director, to the room leader to the educator, we all need to plan for the unexpected and put all our anxieties to rest. During this session Colin will explore what a succession plan looks like and how we can plan to be more proactive in our roles. EYLF & MTOP Principle: Ongoing Learning & Reflective Practice NQS: QA4 & QA7

About Colin:

As a Director and founder of Semann & Slattery, Colin’s unique leadership, coaching and mentoring style encourages participants to embrace change on a personal level enabling positive change to occur on a professional level.

Colin will ensure you experience renewed enthusiasm, active participation and heightened respect for your role and responsibilities!

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Company: Resilience Clinic

Conference Workshop: Trauma Informed Engagements - (Paediatric to Preschool) Join Heather during this interactive, practical and informative session that includes real life case studies, role plays and reflection. During this 90 minute session you will explore:

Attachment (intro to basic Attachment Theory) Attachment Styles Attachment injuries & Trauma Attachment & Anxiety Attachment & Engaging

EYLF & MTOP Principle: Secure, Respectful and Reciprocal Relationships. EYLF Principles: Responsiveness to Children; High Expectations & Equity; Assessment for Learning. MTOP Principles: Collaboration with Children; High Expectations & Equity; Evaluations for Wellbeing & Learning. EYLF & MTOP Outcome: 3. NQS: QA2 & QA5.

About Heather: Heather has a passion for seeing people grow, develop skills & experience in adoption, fostering, chaplaincy, counselling and family welfare, with a strong focus on community awareness.

Real tools for trauma that can be implemented in services.

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Company: Down to Earth Practical Solutions

Conference Workshop: “Routines” – Time After Time; Explore infant toddler routine approaches in a very practical way Routines in infant and toddler rooms are an essential part of everyone’s day; so how do we go beyond the ‘compliance wallpaper’ and the clock to show genuine respect during these prime times? How do we actually practice and engage in respectful approaches, capturing young children’s experiences with and through routines? Explore infant toddler routine approaches in a very practical way, including tips on documentation, or storytelling as Molly refers to, The Rights of the Child, involving families through creative and respectful approaches, and generally just thinking a little bit differently to why, and how we do what we do. EYLF & MTOP Principles: Secure, Respectful & Reciprocal Relationships; Ongoing Learning &Reflective Practice. EYLF & MTOP Practices: Holistic Approaches; Responsiveness to Children. EYLF & MTOP Outcomes: 1 & 3. NQS QA1, QA2, QA4 & QA5.

About Molly: Molly is an ‘outside the circle' thinker and more than creative teacher and mentor who has been proudly involved in the early education and care sector for more than 26 years. During this time, Molly has ridden the wave of change, challenged it, accepted it and created it – and continues on the wonderful journey!

We assure you that every workshop Molly presents is full of laughs, theatrics and raw reflections about everything this amazing industry has to offer!

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Company: Puppets for Learning

Conference Workshop: Puppetry in the Early Years - Making puppets come alive! During this 90 minute session you will learn how to make a puppet come alive and about the many ways to engage with children using puppets. You’ll learn tips for promoting language and clear speech, emotional wellbeing, social skills plus lots more! FEAR NOT! This workshop is not about performing a puppet show in front of the group! EYLF & MTOP Principles: Ongoing Learning & Reflective Practice; Secure, Respectful & Reciprocal Relationships. EYLF & MTOP Practices: Learning Through Play; Intentional Teaching. EYLF Outcomes: 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5. NQS: QA1 & AQ5.

About Lucia: Lucia Smith is an entertaining presenter who combines her 20+ years of experience working as a paediatric speech pathologist with her background in puppetry. Participants are never bored and usually leave sessions with a new creative mindset!

If you have a puppet, bring it along to get the most out of this interactive session!

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Company: Semann & Slattery

Conference Workshop: Documentation: It's all About the Journey Does documentation get the better of you? Do you find yourself drowning in paperwork? Documentation is all about the journey not the final product. During the journey we need to explore the question of ‘Why’ we should document before we even explore the ‘How’ we should document. Documentation can be a wonderful vehicle to improve quality and during this session we will explore how we might reimagine documentation in early childhood settings. EYLF & MTOP Principle: Ongoing Learning & Reflective Practice. EYLF Practice: Assessment for Learning. MTOP Practice: Evaluation for Well-being and Learning. NQS: QA1.

About Philip: Philip is an Associate at Semann & Slattery. He is an expert at applying practical leadership and educational theories into a diverse range of educational and human service settings and practices. Philip is focused on transforming Australian educational settings by delivering effective programs and services, which combine pedagogical theories, educational leadership and effective change, and team management principles to clients who seek long-term value. Please note should Phil not be able to attend, Tracey Popple from Semann & Slattery will present the session.

Learn how to stop yourself from drowning in paperwork!

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Company: Stone & Sprocket Conference Workshop: ‘Good intentions in the schema things’ – a closer look at children’s schemas Children and adults alike make sense of their world through various types of play and watching this is one of the most fascinating things in life. If you look closely, children tell us their understanding of the world and how they fit into it through their play activity. What about when children's play seems repetitive or inappropriate? What is our role as the adult? We have all seen the child who throws toys across the room with no warning, or the entire contents of ‘home corner’ being transported to ‘block area’. A closer look at these urges or 'schemata' (Piaget, 1926) can help us to understand the motivation behind children's play and behaviour and add another tool to draw from our repertoire of intentional teaching techniques we employ. EYLF Practices: Learning Through Play; Learning Environments; Responsiveness to Children; Intentional Teaching; Cultural Competence. MTOP Practices: Learning Through Play; Intentionality; Environments; Collaboration with Children; Cultural Competence. EYLF Outcome: 4. NQS: QA1 & QA5.

About Bec: With a wealth of experience that spans across 16 years in a variety of learning environments, Rebecca prides herself with a long standing commitment to the advocacy for the right of every child to access high quality care & education. This commitment saw Rebecca complete a Master of Education (Inclusive Ed) and involvement in teacher and action research.

Gain a better understanding of when and how to interact with children as they play.

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Company: REVERSE GARBAGE Conference Workshop: Mystery Box Challenge – Loose parts to early years learning and open-ended fun In this workshop learn how to promote professional engagement, creativity and innovation with a focus on embedding sustainability in a diverse curriculum through reuse materials. Dare will lead you through a series of challenges which you will resolve in small groups and share reflections and observations. Expected learning outcomes will include an enhanced capacity to incorporate loose parts and open ended materials, an increased awareness of creative applications of reuse materials in a variety of learning contexts. EYLF Practices: Learning Through Play; Learning Environments. MTOP Practices: Learning Through Play, Environments. EYLF Outcome: 4. NQS: QA1 & QA3

About Dare: Dare Kavanagh has a combination of local and overseas experience in all aspects of social enterprise management; substantial experience from the public, not-for-profit and private sector, as well as significant leadership experience and an understanding of membership based organisations. Dare is passionate about saving resources form landfill and educating the community about reuse and sustainability.

Join Dare for this creative, hands on workshop!

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Company: Coastwide Therapy Conference Workshop: Sensory Processing and its Impact on Behaviour and Function This workshop is designed to assist you in gaining a greater understanding of how Sensory Processing difficulties impact on a child’s ability to explore their environment, interact with their peers, complete activities, learn new skills and most importantly play. We will give you information about how children process their senses, how it impacts on their ability to function across environments and give you plenty of tips and ideas that you can take away and implement instantly. EYLF & MTOP Principle: High Expectations & Equity. EYLF Practices: Responsiveness to Children; Learning Through Play; Assessment for Learning; Cultural Competence. MTOP Practices: Collaboration with Children, Learning Through Play; Evaluation for Well-being & Learning; Cultural Competence. EYLF & MTOP Outcomes: 1, 3, 4 & 5. NQS: QA1 & QA5.

About Rebecca: Rebecca is a member of Occupational Therapy Australia and has had extensive experience in providing Occupational Therapy to children, adolescents and adults. Rebecca is passionate about working with clients and their families within in a holistic, goal directed service delivery framework.

Join Rebecca to explore the ins and outs of Sensory Processing!

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Company: The Travelling Storyteller Conference Workshop: Creative Programming – Inspiring children’s imaginations During this 90 minute session you will explore creative programming in school age care programs, using the My Time, Our Place Framework. Develop confidence in extending children’s imaginative play, drawing from available resources, indoor and outdoor learning environments as well as the interests of the individual children and community cultures. MTOP Practices: Learning Through Play; Intentionality; Environments. MTOP Outcomes: 4 & 5. NQS: QA1, QA3 & QA5.

About Anna: Anna is an internationally acclaimed professional storyteller, Australian children's storyteller, writer, musician, teacher and consultant. With 25 years experience, and a passion for storytelling, travel and adventure, Anna designs and presents a diversity of creative story workshops and performances in communities across Australia and overseas.

Anna will inspire you to get creative with your school age care programming!

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Company: Down to Earth Practical Solutions

Conference Workshop: Group Time – How to be an explorer of the term Your mission should you choose to accept, is to explore the term group time with a different lens. To be an explorer of group time, you don’t need any fancy smancy materials, just an open mind. Consider it research. This adult ‘group time’ aka session, may well turn into your metaphorical suitcase of new perspectives and ideas. Expect the unexpected. Group time, pleasure or pain? With your secret agent educator binoculars, come and explore the predictable and find the unexpected. EYLF & MTOP Principle: Ongoing Learning & Reflective Practice. EYLF Practice: Intentional Teaching. MTOP Practice: Intentionality. NQS: QA1.

About Molly: Molly is an ‘outside the circle' thinker and more than creative teacher and mentor who has been proudly involved in the early education and care sector for more than 26 years. During this time, Molly has ridden the wave of change, challenged it, accepted it and created it – and continues on the wonderful journey! Join Molly as she helps you to ‘escape the daily grind’ of work and instead come back Down To Earth to connect to the way children think, feel and react in order to build strong, joyful communities where children can grow and flourish. Molly is funky, unique and all natural.

Do you accept the challenge? No binoculars required!

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Company: Developing Dreams Early Learning Centre Conference Workshop: Developing Dreams: Finding your happy place Did you choose the early childhood profession for your love of young children and desire to contribute to their best start in life, but now find yourself struggling, unmotivated and unhappy? Perhaps you have even considered leaving your job or wondering if this is all there is? It doesn't have to be that way! Having worked in the early childhood profession for over 20 years and currently co-owning an early learning centre, Catherine will share her Life Coaching skills to help you find your happy place again. This session is sure to give you the motivation, but most importantly strategies, necessary to improve the quality of your professional and personal life! EYLF^& MTOP Principle: Ongoing Learning & Reflective Practice. NQS: QA4 & QA7.

About Catherine: Catherine is an early childhood educator, life coach, mother and co-owner of Developing Dreams Early Learning Centre. For further parenting strategies and support, Catherine facilitates Empowerment workshops for mothers, providing parenting strategies, support and coaching.

Find your happy place as an Educator!

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Company: The Travelling Storyteller Conference Workshop: Creative Storytelling – Your toolkit for creative play Join Anna for a close up look at the preparation and presentation of creative storytelling and music programs with children aged 0 to 5 years. You will learn how to choose and to adapt stories for different children’s needs, abilities and interests, as well as how to captivate and to keep children’s attention using props, drama, musical instruments and puppets. Steps for planning a successful storytelling session will be outlined, along with suggestions for putting together your own storytelling treasure bag. You will develop the confidence, and have the support, to integrate storytelling and creative play into your professional planning and daily experiences. EYLF Principle: Ongoing Learning & Reflective Practice. EYLF Practice: Intentional Teaching. NQS: QA1 & QA5

About Anna: Anna is an internationally acclaimed professional storyteller, Australian children's storyteller, writer, musician, teacher and consultant. With 25 years experience, and a passion for storytelling, travel and adventure, Anna designs and presents a diversity of creative story workshops and performances in communities across Australia and overseas.

Creative Storytelling…more than just reading from a book.

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Company: Raw & Unearthed Conference Workshop: 2017 Raw & Unearthed ‘Loosen Up’ During this 90 minute workshop, educators will become inspired and motivated in their practice as well as open their eyes and minds to the amazing possibilities and benefits of an open ended play based curriculum. In addition to their slideshow presentation, Bec & Sarah will provide a selection of table-based natural loose part provocations for play. EYLF & MTOP Practices: Learning Through Play; Learning Environments. EYLF & MTOP Principle: Ongoing Learning & Reflective Practice. EYLF & MTOP Outcome: 4. NQS: QA1 & QA3.

About Bec & Sarah:

Bec is an Early Childhood teacher with three children of her own. As an educational leader within her early childhood community Bec is bringing her vision to life of children disconnecting from technology and reconnecting with the wild world, running free with time to just be. Sarah is also an Early Childhood teacher who loves the way children look at the world. Being able to share in their awe, wonder and the sparkle that oozes out of them as they build on their philosophy of life and make new discoveries of the world around them is nothing short of inspiring and magical. It is this magic that has always driven Sarah in her work with children and their families.

Explore the possibilities of play within a selection of natural loose parts.

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Company: Semann & Slattery Conference Workshop: Evidence based pedagogy & theorists influencing everyday practice Do you want to increase your confidence with creative ideas and art materials in less time than a speed dating session? This fun practical and inspiring session will have you thinking differently about ‘art and craft’ and why your attitudes and skills in this learning area matter for children’s learning opportunities. You will have an opportunity to reflect on your own creativity and how this impacts on the quality of your pedagogy and curriculum. This session will also be a ‘hands on’ opportunity to explore new creative materials and how to use them in your program with children. There will be a little bit of mess, and lots of laughs. Greater creative confidence and changed thinking about what can be done to enhance your curriculum is guaranteed! EYLF Practices: Learning Through Play; Learning Environments. MTOP Practices: learning Through Play, Environments. EYLS & MTOP Outcome: 4. NQS: QA1 & QA3.

About Amanda: Amanda specialises in training and support programs that encompass her two key areas of interest, the visual arts and sound business and human resources management practices in early learning settings. Prior to becoming a professional learning facilitator in 2014, Amanda had over ten years experience as a Director responsible for both Early Learning and Out of School Hours care programs in NSW and the ACT.

A fun and practical session which will have you thinking differently about ‘art & craft’!