National Quality Standard: Towards Continuous Improvement A Practical Guide for Students and Professionals

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ISBN 9781921613548

A Practical Guide for Students and Professionals

This practical guide for students and professionals assists early childhood educators, in whatever setting or service, to identify short, medium and long term goals for development of their services towards meeting the requirements of the National Quality Standard through the development of Quality Improvement Plans.

Features

Within each quality area, the standards are identified and each element is described in terms of what it means for educators.

Questions for each element are designed to stimulate professional reflection, guide discussion and support educators to identify their strengths, and plan for improving those quality areas that require further focus and development.

Helps educators to identify professional learning plans and more efficiently target the deployment of limited resources.

Each quality area is addressed by an acknowledged expert in the field: Bridie Raban, Joy Gibson, Kay Margetts, Kaye Colmer, Andrea Nolan, Liz Rouse, Manjula Waniganayake and Sanobia Pahiwela.