Leadership 4: Leading Curriculum, Pedagogy, & Innovation

20 Oct 2024

Participants will explore what it means to be the leader of curriculum and pedagogy in their centre, and will build the knowledge and practical skillset to be able to do this effectively. A particular focus will be on the high impact activities that contribute to improvement in early childhood practice and pedagogy, and the consideration of how these connect to the unique context of a leader’s own environment.

This course has over 25 interviews including:

Professor Peter Moss, University College London
Professor Emeritus Viviane Robinson, University of Auckland
Bruce Cotterill, Business Leader
Lorraine Manuela, Learning Centre Director Tots Corner
Jacqui Lees, Head Teacher Papkuranga Baptist Kindergarten
Dr Rachel Denee, Director and Pedagogical Leader Daisies Early Education and Care Centre
Bridgette Towle, Director Kids’ Domain Early Learning Centre

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SPECIAL OFFER

Buy all five Leadership Series courses and get 40% off

Leadership 1: Leading Authentically

This course focuses on leaders as individuals and helps you to learn about a repertoire of leadership styles identified in research to creatively tailor a leadership style for your own contexts, people, and purposes.

Course Details

Leadership 2: Leading People & Teams

Leadership 3: Leading Partnerships & Collaborations

Leadership 4: Leading Curriculum, Pedagogy & Innovation

Leadership 5: Leading Improvement

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What you’ll learn on this course

The course is structured into eight parts, with each part designed to take about a week to work through, although participants are free to work at their own pace.

Part 1: Notions of Quality

Problematises the notion of quality in early childhood contexts, providing participants with a sophisticated notion of what effective teaching and learning can look like in their setting.

Part 2: Pedagogical leadership

Explores structures for pedagogical leadership, both formal and informal, and how leaders can maintain a pedagogical focus in their leadership.

Part 3: Assessment and evaluation tools

Examines assessment and evaluation as a key aspect of pedagogical leadership as it allows leaders to understand what children know and can do.

Part 4: Embracing and responding to complexity

Establishes the complexity of an early childhood environment, and the need for clear strategy development and principles for practice and pedagogy.

Part 5: Curriculum design

Unpacks the principles that underpin effective curriculum design and explores case studies from early childhood centres to show what these can look like when applied in different contexts of practice.

Part 6: Developing conditions for innovation and learning

Examines the notion of creative leadership and the conditions required for creativity, and supports leaders to identify how they can implement more creative thinking and innovation in their setting.

Part 7: What is strategy?

Uncovers what strategy is (and what it is not), examines how to ensure strategies are well-aligned with core purposes of centres, and supports their positive reception and implementation.

Part 8: Designing your strategy

Explores the processes that underpin strategy formation and provides participants with a strategy development process they can utilise in their own context of practice.

Please note, all our courses are best completed on a desktop/laptop computer or tablet. Because of the amount of content, we do not recommend using a phone.

* Lifetime access means for as long as the course is hosted on The Education Hub

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