Professional Development

Throughout the year we will be organising professional development sessions of particular relevance to professionals working in the area of early childhood intervention. See below for details of sessions.

2010

15th & 16th September 2010
"Strengths Approach Training"
Presented by Bernadette Glass
St Michaels Administration Building
Level 1, 120 Collins Street, Melbourne
Cost $360 incl GST (Lunch and notes provided)
Registration: Please return ECIA Registration Form by 1st September 2010 - Click here to get the registration form
Click here to download the flyer
For further information, please contact ECIA(VC) on 9509 5584 or email exec@eciavic.org.au

Evidence Based Practice
Dr Dunst has developed a unique perspective on evidence based practice and practice based evidence, which will assist in understanding how to evaluate service effectiveness against desired outcomes.
Dates: Tuesday 10th August 2010
Venue: Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre, 1 Convention Centre Place, South Wharf, Victoria
Flyer: Download the flyer
Registration: Please return the Registration Form by Friday 30th July 2010

Professional Development
This event will feature a presentation from Dr Dunst on the Participatory Adult Learning Strategy (PALS) model of professional development. Dunst and Trivette developed this evidence-based approach and it has been found to be associated with improved learner knowledge, use, and mastery of different types of intervention practices.
Dates: Wednesday 11th August 2010
Venue: Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre, 1 Convention Centre Place, South Wharf, Victoria
Flyer: Download the flyer
Registration: Please return the Registration Form by Friday 30th July 2010

Early Childhood Intervention Service Models
Dr Dunst has developed strong views about the outcomes for children and families that ECIS should aim to achieve and the models for service delivery that are most likely to promote these outcomes.
Dates: Thursday 12th August 2010
Venue: Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre, 1 Convention Centre Place, South Wharf, Victoria
Flyer: Download the flyer
Registration: Please return the Registration Form by Friday 30th July 2010

Family Centred Practice
Dr Dunst will review and critique the evidence about Family Centred Practice which has accrued over the past 30 years.
Dates: Friday 13th August 2010
Venue: Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre, 1 Convention Centre Place, South Wharf, Victoria
Flyer: Download the flyer
Registration: Please return the Registration Form by Friday 30th July 2010

Introduction to Counselling
Dates: Saturday 17 April & 1 May 2010
Presenter: Robynne Moore
Venue: Rydges on Swanston, 701 Swanston Street, Melbourne
Cost: $330 incl GST
Registration: Please return the Registration Form by 10th July
Flyer: Download the flyer

Early Childhood Intervention Australia Conference 2010
Date: 20-22nd May 2010
For more information visit: www.ecia2010.com.au

3rd & 4th June 2010

"Strengths Approach Training"
Presented by Bernadette Glass

St Michaels Administration Building
Level 1, 120 Collins Street, Melbourne

Cost $360 incl GST (Lunch and notes provided)

Registration: Please return ECIA Registration Form by 1st March 2010 - Click here to get the registration form
Click here to download the flyer
For further information, please contact ECIA(VC) on 9509 5584 or email exec@eciavic.org.au

15th & 16th March 2010

"Strengths Approach Training"
Presented by Bernadette Glass

St Michaels Administration Building
Level 1, 120 Collins Street, Melbourne

Cost $360 incl GST (Lunch and notes provided)

Registration: Please return ECIA Registration Form by 17th May 2010 - Click here to get the registration form
Click here to download the flyer
For further information, please contact ECIA(VC) on 9509 5584 or email exec@eciavic.org.au

2009

ECA/ECIA Victorian State Conference
Date: Friday 16th October 2009
Updated - Pre-conference workshop proposed for Thursday 15th October 2009.
Flyer: Download the flyer (pdf - 281 KB)
*** Updated - Conference Program: Download the Final Conference Program (pdf - 378 KB)
*** Updated - Pre-conference Program: Download the Final Pre-conference Workshop Program (pdf - 358 KB)
Registration Form: Download the Registration Form (doc - 55 KB)

ECA/ECIA Victorian State Conference Keynote Speaker Lillian Holt
Lillian Holt has had a long and formal career in Indigenous education spanning over three and a half decades.
She was appointed a University of Melbourne Fellow in 2003-2005 and prior to that from 1998-2002, she was the Director of the Centre for Indigenous Education, University of Melbourne.
Her substantive position before taking up her appointment(s) at Melbourne University, was Principal of Tauondi (pronounced Town-dee) an Aboriginal Community College in Port Adelaide. She worked there for sixteen years, the last seven as the first Aboriginal Principal.
She has a BA with majors in English and Journalism (University of Queensland) and an MA from the University of Northern Colorado, USA and was formerly enrolled in a PhD at Melbourne University on Aboriginal Humour.
Lillian has travelled extensively, both within Australia and overseas and has also spoken at a diverse range of conferences, nationally and internationally. In 2004 she was awarded the Gandhi, King, Ikeda peace medal from Morehouse College, Atlanta, the Alma Mater of Martin Luther King, for her work in the area of Reconciliation.
In 2005, she was appointed to membership of the World Wisdom Council (Club of Budapest) and in 2006, she was appointed an Honorary Fellow of Melbourne University.
Her passionate interests (as opposed to hobbies) are: People and Words! She regards her best asset to be her humour and is passionately interested in the healing of race relations in Australia.

*** Updated - Presenting with Confidence
Date: Friday 20 November, 9.00am – 4.00pm
Presenter: Garry Roach, Centre for Leadership Management
Venue: William Angliss Institute, 555 Latrobe Street
Cost: $330 inc. GST
Registration: Please return the ECIA Registration form (click here - doc 43 KB) by 4 September 2009
Flyer: Download the flyer (doc 50 KB)

Introduction to Counselling
Dates: Saturday 25 July & 8 August 2009
Presenter: Robynne Moore
Venue: Rydges on Swanston, 701 Swanston Street, Melbourne
Cost: $330 incl GST
Registration: Please return the Registration form (Word Document - 44KB) by 10th July 2009
Flyer: Download the flyer (Word Document - 49KB)

Speaking up for the Quiet Ones. Shyness and the development of anxiety in early childhood.
Date: Friday 19 June 2009, 9.30am – 3.30pm
Presenter: Robert Coplan PhD, Visiting Scholar from Canada.
Venue: Rydges Melbourne, 186 Exhibition Street
Cost: $120 full fee, $70 for Victorian Early Childhood Professionals
Registration: Please return the Registration form (click here - pdf 464 KB)
Flyer: Download the flyer (pdf 337 KB)
Handouts: Download the handouts (Word Document 106KB)

Thursday 26th March 2009, 9.30am - 12.30pm followed by lunch from 12.30-1.30pm

ECIA(VC) together with the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development are pleased to invite ECI managers, Specialist Children's Services team leaders, SDS Principals and staff in relevant roles to a half day forum addressing

"The place of authentic assessment in EC services / systems"
Presented by Prof Stephen Bagnato & Assistant Professor Kristie Pretti-Frontczak

Rydges Melbourne
186 Exhibition Street (Cnr Little Bourke)
Subsidised fee: No charge for staff in DEECD funded services
Full fee: $50 (incl GST)

Forum overview:
Prof Steve Bagnato (University of Pittsburgh) and Assistant Professor Kristie Pretti-Frontczak (Kent State University) champion the use of measurement techniques that systematically capture authentic portraits of the competencies of young children with additional needs in everyday settings and routines - the natural developmental ecology of children. In addition to delivering the full day workshop on “Authentic Assessment in Practice” on 27 March, Steve and Kristie have accepted an invitation to conduct a half day forum directed at a management level. They will share their insights and facilitate discussion on the place of authentic assessment in early childhood services / systems, and the processes necessary to implement change in assessment for eligibility and intervention and in evaluation of individuals and programs.

RSVP by 20th March to Michelle Harvey, ECIA(VC) Executive Officer
Phone (03) 9489 2477 or email exec@eciavic.org.au

Friday 27th March 2009, 9.00am - 4.00pm

"Authentic Assessment In Practice Workshop"
Presented by Prof Stephen Bagnato & Assistant Professor Kristie Pretti-Frontczak

Telstra Dome
Subsidised fee: $50 (GST incl) (for staff who work in DEECD funded services)
Full fee: $120

Workshop overview:
Prof Steve Bagnato (University of Pittsburgh) and Assistant Professor Kristie Pretti-Frontczak (Kent State University) champion the use of measurement techniques that systematically capture authentic portraits of the competencies of young children with additional needs in everyday settings and routines - the natural developmental ecology of children. They will teach the techniques and strategies used in authentic assessment for many purposes in early intervention including for eligibility, individual progress, program evaluation and service outcomes. Assessments which are representative of functioning in daily life, sensitive to atypical individual progress and readily communicable to families have many potential advantages. Authentic assessment may be used for transition assessments and progress reports between different education sectors. It can honour effort, be empowering of families and promote their ongoing collaboration with staff in the interests of children’s progress. The proposed workshop will be relevant to ECIS Agency and SCS staff, PSFOs, ISFs, Early Education, Program for Students with Disabilities and early primary school staff.

Workshop content:

• the purposes for assessment in early childhood intervention;
• issues related to existing testing practices;
• eight standards for professional "best practices";
• a rationale and examples of the process and methods for authentic assessment;
• and guide points for implementing authentic assessment in action.

Registration: Please return ECIA Registration Form by Friday 20th March 2009 - Click here to get the registration form
For further information, please contact ECIA(VC) on (03) 9509 5584 or email exec@eciavic.org.au

2nd & 3rd April 2009, 9.30am - 4.00pm

"Strengths Approach Training"
Presented by Bernadette Glass

Treacy Conference Centre
126 The Avenue, Parkville (accommodation available - contact Michelle Harvey at ECIA(VC) for further details)
Cost $360 incl GST (Lunch and notes provided)

Registration: Please return ECIA Registration Form by 20th March 2009 - Click here to get the registration form
For further information, please contact ECIA(VC) on 9509 5584 or email exec@eciavic.org.au

• Workshop Powerpoint Presentation (652 KB)
• Procedural Reliability - an authentic assessment measure we've used in a couple of studies (46 KB)
• EC Systems Rating Rubric (shared with policy makers in Australia) (45 KB)
• DEC 2007 Paper (31 KB)
  EBP Rubric - a rubric created to evaluate the degree to which a particular practice has an evidence base (32 KB)
• Curriculum Framework Rating Rubric - to assist with the implementation of a CF (31 KB)
  CBA rubric to assist with rating various EC curriculum-based assessments (365 KB)
• Powerpoint from Managers Forum (4,089 KB)
• Kristie's Book (72 KB)

• 10 do's and don't's (397 KB)
• Accountability for early childhood intervention (77 KB)
• Big Idea Glossary (182 KB)
• Complexity of change (1,544 KB)
• Highstakes testing with pre-school children (4,288 KB)
• Authentic Assessment Emerging Practices (1,028 KB)
• The Mismeasure of Young Children (119 KB)
• Preparing Head Start Personnel to use a curriculum based assessment (16 KB)
• A curriculum framework that supports quality early childhood education for all young children (783 KB)
• Valid use of clinical judgement for early intervention (5,249 KB)

For those interested in joining Kristie's Google Group on Curriculum Frameworks:
Welcome to the Curriculum Framework Google Group. Here you will find postings of all things evolving regarding curriculum frameworks as a model for Response to Intervention in EC. Please feel free to use the information posted and to share your ideas with others. Current members include those working with young children and their families from MI, OH, KY, TX, SC, NE, and VA. Click on this URL for a brief tutorial for using and participating in the google group.

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