Leading Learning for Quality Improvement
Gain the strategies to support and lead educators and improve quality within early childhood settings.
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What you will learn
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Educational leaders play a crucial role when supporting other educators in early childhood settings.
This Melbourne MicroCert equips early childhood leaders and aspiring leaders with the skills and evidence-based strategies to successfully lead others and drive quality improvement within early education.
Explore educational leadership models
Gain a research and policy-informed understanding of how educational leaders can assist quality improvement in early childhood education and care (ECEC). Explore educational leadership models and practices and how these impact both teacher effectiveness and child learning and development outcomes.
Gain strategies to help educators sustain quality practices
Examine key evidence-based teaching practices that support quality improvement and consider leadership strategies to help educators build and sustain quality programs and practices.
Adopt contemporary leadership techniques
Explore a range of leadership practices including reflective practice, coaching, mentoring and professional learning. Examine how to use these in your own professional context, to support educators’ planning, intentional teaching and assessment, as well as monitor their impact on child learning and development.
Who you will learn from
Learn from skilled academics and professional experts who will share invaluable knowledge you can use in your job.
Associate Professor Jane Page OAM
Associate Professor; Senior Researcher, REEaCh Hub
Jane has 30 years' experience in early childhood as a teacher, director and in academia. She has worked on and led numerous projects with state and local governments and the Victorian Curriculum Assessment Authority (VCAA) such as the Bastow Institute of Educational Leadership's Leading Learning in Early Childhood Settings program; and projects concerning quality pedagogy and the impact of evidence-based interventions for vulnerable children in Victoria and the Northern Territory.
More from this series
Take multiple courses to deepen your knowledge or stack towards a full degree.
The Educational Leadership in Early Childhood series
It offers a pathway into the Graduate Diploma of Early Childhood Teaching. See course details for more information.
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Fees
For individuals
To take Leading Learning for Quality Improvement as a stand-alone Melbourne MicroCert, you'll pay the normal course price.
$750.00 AUD (inc GST)
Please contact Student Support to discuss discounts and payment options for University of Melbourne staff or alumni, or to pay by invoice.
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