Building trustful relationships and promoting centre wellbeing

7 May 2020

Jean Rockel from The University of Auckland and Emma Thomsen from Tots Corner discuss the importance of teachers’ relationships with each other in early childhood settings, particularly in infant and toddler contexts.

They describe the nature of trustful relationships, as well as how they are promoted, strengthened, and nurtured, and how they can support teacher empowerment as well as teachers’ wellbeing. This webinar provides key concepts and ideas for teachers to use to improve the quality of teacher relationships in their setting, and in turn, the emotional climate of the setting.

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Presenters

Jean Rockel

Jean Rockel is an honorary academic at the Faculty of Education and Social Work, Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of Auckland. She is a passionate advocate for the rights of very young children to early learning. She was involved in researching Pedagogies of Care for teachers of one-year-olds, an international project with researchers from the United Kingdom, United States, Hong Kong, and New Zealand. In 2015, Jean Rockel received a Queen’s Service Medal for services to early childhood education.

Building trustful relationships and promoting centre wellbeing

Emma Thomsen

Emma Thomsen is an early childhood teacher with many years’ experience working with children of all ages, particularly infants and toddlers.