Overview Topic 2: What is leadership in ECE?

Topic Two Activities and Assessments

There are no formal grades awarded for completing the activities and assessments within this OER; instead, embrace this experience as a unique approach to learning that is intended to support you in a more enriching journey of self-reflection and personal growth. 

You are encouraged to assess your progress and engage in reflective practice as you move through the activities and assessments to foster self-discovery and continual improvement as an ECE practitioner. 

Three activities and one assessment within Topic Two include:

• ACTIVITY 2.1 | Leadership Styles, Professional Accountability & Ethical Leadership Practices  
  • You will explore foundational leadership styles and consider how these leadership styles can directly influence your leadership practices, approaches, and decisions and impact those you manage and provide care for. Furthermore, you will consider how leadership styles play a pivotal role in shaping professional accountability and ethical leadership practices.
• ACTIVITY 2.2 |  Your Leadership Values 
  • In this activity, you will consider what ECE leadership values are critical, examine what other values those in your sector think are critical, identify your core values, reflect on the impact of your values on your leadership approaches, and evaluate the usefulness of your values in practice.
• ACTIVITY 2.3 | Inclusive Leadership Practices
  • You will examine your priorities, preferences, and biases more deeply to build and sustain a safer environment where every child and staff member can thrive. 
• ASSESSMENT Topic Two | ECE Ethical Leadership Guidelines
  • You will examine the ten activities Daft (2008) associates with moral leadership, review the five principles of ethical leadership suggested by Northouse (2016) and subsequently create ethical guidelines to inform your leadership practices.