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Quality Through Professionalisation. Maura McMahon, Simone Jones & Mareesa O’Dwyer . Quality Through Professionalisation. Vision: all staff are fully competent to apply and to integrate the National Frameworks of Síolta and Aistear within the HighScope curriculum
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Quality Through Professionalisation Maura McMahon, Simone Jones & Mareesa O’Dwyer
Quality Through Professionalisation • Vision: all staff are fully competent to apply and to integrate the National Frameworks of Síolta and Aistear within the HighScopecurriculum • Manual challenges staff to integrate the frameworks through daily curriculum planning and evaluation • Structured planning encourages reflective evaluation • Quality mentors support work‐based learning Mary Daly, Ann Louise Gilligan and Katherine Zappone
Additional Needs Module • Case Studies • Child Protection • Intellectual Disability • Physical Disability • Adapting the Curriculum to Meet a Child’s Needs • External Supports for the Child & Family
Development plan in practice • What we did • How it helped • Challenges
RE-AIM Framework (Glasgow et al. 1999) Reach Effectiveness Adoption Implementation Maintenance
Timeline of evaluation Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption Adoption Implementation, Maintenance Adoption, Maintenance April ‘14 May ‘14 June ‘14 June ‘14 June ‘14 Direct Observation Training Cohort 1 Direct Observation Training Cohort 2 Interviews (Trainers and co-ordinator) Focus groups (Educators) Preschool Quality Assessments (Preschools) Programme Delivery (Jan-May 14) Post-Programme Delivery
Consortium: Quality Through Professionalisation August 2014