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Overview Topic 3: Elevating the sector - advocacy and leadership

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Course: Leading and Innovating in the Early Childhood Education Sector
Book: Overview Topic 3: Elevating the sector - advocacy and leadership
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Date: Thursday, 21 November 2024, 10:01 AM

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Welcome to Topic Three: Elevating the sector - advocacy and leadership

“Leaders will be called upon to use their expertise, leadership skills, tenacity, and resilience to navigate difficult situations and to achieve meaningful change when prudent and necessary” (Marotz, 2021, p.213).”

This section of the resource will support you in recognizing the importance of the ECE sector and acknowledging the evidence-based research validating the sector’s importance.  

Additionally, you will examine the ECE leader’s role in advocating for change and be introduced to ideas for championing the sector, building community and inclusive environments, and celebrating advancements. 

The estimated time to complete Topic Three based on content, activities, and assessments is six and a half hours (6.5 hours or 390 minutes)

Learning outcomes serve as a valuable resource to guide your learning journey and ensure that you can make the most out of your learning experience. The primary purpose of this section is to clearly communicate the intended learning outcome of Topic Three: Elevating the sector - Advocacy and leadership. 

The learning outcomes for Topic Three align with the content, activities, and assessments you encountered in Topic One and Two, enabling you to track your growth and identify improvement opportunities. 

After completing all activities and assessments within Topic Three, participants will: 

  • 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 leader, and     
  • Creating ECE programs as changemaker spaces- drawing on innovations from the field. 

Topic Three 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 Three include:

  • ACTIVITY 3.1 | Importance of the ECE sector 
    • You will examine the importance of the ECE sector and its impact on future society and consider your influence as an ECE manager and leader as an advocate. 
  • ACTIVITY 3.2 |  Building Community & Inclusive Environments
    • You will consider how you currently support building community and encouraging inclusivity in your program.
  • ACTIVITY 3.3 | Celebrating Advancements
    • You will pause to consider what celebrating success would look like to you by completing a personality style quiz  
  • ASSESSMENT Topic Three | Advocacy Action Plan 
    • You will consider the actions you might take to champion the ECE sector, build community and inclusive environments, and celebrate advancements in the field.