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Activity 2.1 | ECE Leadership: Role & Characteristics

Activity 2.1 | Leadership Styles, Professional Accountability & Ethical Leadership Practices

Activity 2.1 

In Topic Two's first activity, 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. 

After completing the various learning events within Activity 2.1, you will be able to:

  • Reflect on the impact of professional accountability and ethical, values-based ECE leadership practice
  • Explain an ECE Leader’s role in fostering an ECE program that honours rights-respecting, equitable, diverse and inclusive environments  
  • Describe ways to encourage reflective and reflexive practices in ECE programs as an ECE  
Content and learning events within this activity include:

  • Reading
  • Watching Videos
  • Self-reflections
  • Asynchronous quizzing (immediate feedback)
  • Analyzing a case study