State Conference: Early Childhood Education
August 9 - 10 2024
The conference provides an outstanding and affordable professional learning opportunity for early childhood educators from across Western Australia who are seeking to continuously improve their classroom practices.
The conference will actively engage early childhood educators in 2 key themes:
1. Education principles, practices and outcomes to help children be, belong and become all that they can.
2. Developing early childhood teacher competence to help YOU be, belong and become the very best that YOU can.
The program features three key teaching and learning streams including:
Development and
Learning
Exploring literacies, numeracies, STEM, physical development, creativity and sustainability.
Play-Based
Learning
Including principles of development and learning through play: theory and practice thereof, symbolic representation in children’s play and observation and documentation of development and learning in play.
Resilience, Relationships and Identity
Such as Cultural Responsiveness (including Indigenous Education), trauma informed practice and teacher and student well-being / mindfulness.
These three teaching and learning streams align most directly with the following Quality Areas from the National Quality Standard for Early Childhood Education
Education Program and Practice
…to ensure that the educational program and practice is stimulating and engaging, and enhances children’s learning and development…
Relationships with Children
…to promote relationships with children that are responsive, respectful and promote children’s sense of security and belonging
Delegates will be able to select sessions within the program that best meet their professional learning needs. The program features innovations designed to make this conference your best and most affordable professional learning opportunity. Concurrent sessions are allocated 75 – 90 minutes to enable quality, in depth instruction and interactive learning.
Other innovations for this event include
Keynote AND workshop sessions
75-90 minute concurrent workshops designed for the classroom practitioner
An “after school” wine and cheese extended workshop session
A “before school” breakfast session
An inspiring “daily work pad” program packed full of quality sessions and displays across 2 days
Barista-brewed coffee
Share plates and practices afternoon tea
