NQF Working Group Session 2

1. NQF Working Group Session 2

2. Children’s Services Central Who we are: • Children’s Services Central is the NSW Professional Support Coordinator (PSC) • We are funded by the Australian Government • We are a part of the Inclusion and Professional Support Program (IPSP).

3. Session 2 Objectives Participants will: • Review session 1 content and Code of Conduct; • Revise the Thinking Environment and learn about Thinking Pairs and World Café styles of interaction; • Actively discuss National Quality Standards; • Engage in learning on Self Assessment; • Plan or refine approaches to Self Assessment; • Begin to develop the Quality Improvement Plan; and • Get to know resources and wikis

4. Code of Conduct

5. The thinking environment Attention The quality of your attention profoundly affects the quality of other people’s thinking. Equality People are equal thinkers. Boundaries and agreements are respected

6. The thinking environment Ease Offers freedom from internal rush or urgency. Ease creates; urgency destroys Appreciation Thinking requires balance of appreciation and critical comment. Practice a 5:1 ration of appreciation to criticism.

7. The thinking environment Encouragement Competition does not ensure excellence. The search for ideas does not need to be competitive. Feelings Fear constricts thinking. Feelings should be welcomed as good thinking lies just beyond .

8. The thinking environment Information Withholding or denying information results in intellectual vandalism. Supply the facts; dismantle denial Diversity Greater diversity within a group leads to diverse points of view. There is a greater chance of accurate cutting edge thinking.

9. The thinking environment Incisive Questions Remove assumptions that limit our ability to think for ourselves. Place Create a physical environment that communicates value.

10. Your responses-EYLF – what you want

11. EYLF: Current Knowledge

12. EYLF: Team Knowledge

13. EYLF: Confidence

14. EYLF: issues to resolve

15. EYLF: Biggest Challenge

16. EYLF: Next Steps

17. NQF & NQS/what you want

18. NQF & NQS: Current Knowledge

19. NQF & NQS: Team Knowledge

20. NQF & NQS: Confidence

21. NQF & NQS: Issues to Resolve

22. NQF & NQS: Biggest Challenge

23. NQF & NQS: Next Steps

24. Thinking! Thinking environment? Thinking pairs?

25. World Café

26. An overview of the Self Assessment

27. Critical Reflection Reflective Practice is a form of ongoing learning that involves engaging with questions of philosophy, ethics and practice Critical Reflection describes reflective practices that focus on implications for equity and social justice DEEWR (2009) EYLF pp. 13 & 45

28. Why should we reflect? “Questioning how and why certain practices occur is the most effective way to begin critically examining service practice.” “The most effective improvements to service delivery are initiated from within the service, rather than being imposed from the outside.” ACECQA (2011) Guide to Developing a Quality Improvement Plan, pp. 5-6

29. Why should we reflect? To determine; • the effectiveness of practice for all children and families • the relevance of the practice to the service and its stakeholders • and the equity and fairness of the practice for all children, families and educators ACECQA (2011) Guide to Developing a Quality Improvement Plan, p. 6

30. Why Reflect? ...it is important to reflect on practice, policies and procedures against the seven quality areas of the National Quality Standards and related regulatory requirements..... ACECQA (2012) Guide to Developing a Quality Improvement Plan, p. 5

31. How? Questioning how and why certain practices occur is the most effective way to begin critically examining service practice. The Guide to the National Quality Standard includes a set of reflective questions that serve as prompts to explore actual practice at the service. ACECQA (2011) Guide to Developing a Quality Improvement Plan, p. 6

32. Critical Reflection What is really happening here?

33. What is Self Assessment?

34. How can we self-assess? ...it is important to be, open, honest and critically reflective when undertaking the self-assessment and quality improvement planning process. The self-assessment and quality improvement planning process “drives reflection on quality education and care” ACECQA (2011) Guide to Developing a Quality Improvement Plan, pg. 5

35. Self Assessment: the reflection process Source: PSC Alliance Professional Development package - Quality: Evaluation and Assessing Practice

36. Bringing the process together

37. Time frames Your service must have a QIP ready on April 30th

38. So let’s answer some of our questions!

39. Developing your QIP

40. Homework 1.Have staff reflect on the National Quality Standard and ask “What are we famous for? And where do we need to work?”; 2.Refine your approaches to Self Assessment; 3.Continue with your Quality Improvement Plan.

41. Final Reflection