Inclusive Early Childhood Education Webinar Series

This is the third webinar in a series of four webinars. The first webinar in this series will introduce participants to the concept of early childhood inclusion for children with disability and/or delay, including ethical and legal obligations and best practice in early childhood intervention. The following three webinars will assist participants to plan for and implement research-based Individual Learning Plans for young children with disability and/or delays in collaboration with their families and other professionals. The fifth webinar will focus on the transition to school for children with disability and/or delay.


Description

 In this 90-minute webinar you will be presented with strategies to support the inclusion of children with disability and/or delay in your early childhood service. You will be guided through how to best structure your early childhood environment to support the access, engagement, and participation of all children in regular routines and learning experiences. An overview of different evidence-based strategies will be presented, along with real-life examples of how they can be implemented in early childhood services.


At the conclusion of this webinar, you will have knowledge to: 

  • structure the early childhood environment to support the engagement and participation of all children in early childhood routines and learning experiences, including environmental changes to improve access and support participation.
  • implement strategies to support the child's participation and learning within the routines and learning experiences of the early childhood setting (as written in the ILP).


Links to National Quality Standard Descriptors
1.1.3   Program learning opportunities
1.2.1   Intentional teaching
3.2.1   Inclusive environment
5.1.1   Positive educator to child interactions

Links to Australian Professional Standards for Teachers
1.6       Strategies to support full participation of students with disability
3.3       Use teaching strategies
3.5       Inclusive environment
4.1       Support student participation

NESA Accreditation
Completing Early Childhood Inclusion Step 2: Strategies to support inclusion will contribute 1 hour and 30 minutes of NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) Accredited PD in the priority area of Students/children with Disability addressing standard descriptors 4.1.2 from the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers towards maintaining Proficient Teacher Accreditation in NSW.