Events

20 July 2010

Anne Meade and Cushla Scrivens present Leading Learning and Teaching in ECE: the way forward

Seminar

A one day seminar that brings two of New Zealand’s leading Early Childhood Education experts together.

Presenters:

Anne Meade is an education consultant specialising in research and writing focused on early childhood education. Anne was appointed Director of the New Zealand Council for Educational Research from 1992 to 1998, and Fulbright Senior Scholar in 1999. A second edition of her book on schema learning Thinking Children was published in 2008. Anne has been the convenor of two major government working groups (1998, 2001) developing long-term policy for early childhood education in New Zealand. She was Research Leader for the Early Childhood Education Centres of Innovation from 2003 to 2009, a Ministry of Education programme that fostered pedagogical leadership. Her current contract is with Te Tari Puna Ora o Aotearoa, as Research Leader. Anne is the recipient of a CNZM and QSO.

Cushla Scrivens is a former Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social and Policy Studies in Education at Massey University, where she taught professional leadership, management and policy studies in early childhood education to undergraduate and postgraduate students, and learning and teaching in the Graduate Diploma of Teaching (ECE). She was the editor (1998-2005) of the practitioner-focused journal Early Education. Her research interests include leadership, management and policy analysis in early childhood settings and she is a former Associate Researcher at the Massey Childcare Centre of Innovation, researching the links between leadership and learning in their infant and toddler programme. She is currently an independent consultant.

Facilitators:

Shareen Hanvey is the Project Director at Early Childhood Professional Support in the Faculty of Education at The University of Auckland. Shareen is a qualified and experienced early childhood teacher and since 2005 has worked at The University of Auckland as a facilitator and more recently as Director for Professional Learning Programmes. With an interest and passion in educational leadership, Shareen recently completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Educational Management. In 2009 she commenced Postgraduate Studies in Business, specialising in Human Resources and is currently exploring the fundamentals of learning, development, and leadership as essential drivers to enhance performance.

In 2007 as part of a Ministry of Education funded professional development programme, Shareen designed and implemented a professional learning programme for beginning early childhood education (ECE) leaders. This pilot programme formed the basis of the design and success of leadership programmes for ECE leaders in 2008 and 2009. Shareen has a core role in the design and development of the 2010 ECE leadership professional learning programme and will be a lead facilitator in this programme.

Barbara Watson is an ECE Professional Learning facilitator and mentor at EC Professional Support in the Faculty of Education at The University of Auckland. Her work involves supporting early childhood teachers in their practice to improve learning outcomes for children. She has recently delivered professional learning opportunities for teachers through the Ministry of Education Kei Tua o te Pae and Te Whāriki projects. Barbara has been involved in the design of the 2010 leadership programme and will be one of its lead facilitators.

Barbara is a qualified early childhood and primary teacher with a particular interest in educational leadership. She graduated with her Masters of Educational Administration (Hons) in 2008. Prior to her work at The University of Auckland, Barbara led a multi-licence centre on the North Shore and where her passion for the professional learning of ECE teachers began.

Join Anne Meade and Cushla Scrivens to learn how research informed ECE educational leadership practices, knowledge and skills can significantly contribute to the improvement of teaching effectiveness and learning outcomes for all children.

Leadership Learning and Teaching in ECE: the way forward will support and challenge you in your context to:

• Apply new leadership learning to build leadership capacity
• Increase leadership capability of self and others you are responsible for
• More effectively lead and implement ECE national priorities
• Develop and implement a professional learning plan for strengthening leadership practice
• Network and problem solve leadership issues with other ECE leaders

Leading Learning and Teaching in ECE: the way forward brings together in one seminar the expertise and NZ research of Anne Meade and Cushla Scrivens. Learn how to increase your leadership effectiveness and innovation in early childhood education to improve outcomes for all children.

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