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TASMANIAN EARLY YEARS FOUNDATION

LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE

Opening Launch

The Tasmanian Early Years Foundation Learning and Development Committee is an initiative that has been established to assist the Foundation in meeting its objectives and to encourage a consultative, collaborative and cross-sectoral way of working across the early year’s sector and the wider community.

The Committee’s Term of Reference are:

Overall aim: To build capacity in Tasmania for the development of integrated services for young children and their families, including the potential development of Children’s Centres.

Objectives:

  • Promote professional development for key staff across sectors including early childhood health, education, care and advocacy.
  • Work in partnership with government and non-government providers to develop a staff leadership program in support of integrated service models for children and families, within a community development model.
Working Group
  • Advise the Foundation Board on potential visiting speakers (national and international) and other resources to support capacity building and advocacy for the Early Years.
  • Act as a conduit for advocacy and networking across the sector.
  • Act as a clearing house for information about networks and upcoming learning and development opportunities.

Display Launch

The members of the committee are from across the early years sector and they include:

Professor Philip Gammage, Foundation Board member and Committee Chair; Dr Sue Jenkins, Chair of the Foundation; Mark Byrne, Director Children and Family Services, Department of Health and Human Services; Paul Prichard, National Training and Development Manager, Good Beginnings; Cheryl Larcombe, Principal Project Officer, Early Years (Department of Education); Shona Robinson, TAFE Teacher, Children Services; and Kaye Van Niewkuyk, Board Director, Early Childhood Australia.

Upcoming initiatives

The Learning and Development Committee are assisting in the development of the TEYF Newsletter and a series of Keynote Speaker Forums for 2008.  More initiatives will be announced in the near future.

The Foundation’s first Keynote Speaker Forum for 2008 was held in partnership with the Smith Family from 7-11 April.

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The Foundation was proud to support the visit of Professor Philip Gammage, Professor Christine Pascal and Professor Tony Bertram at the Inveresk Tramsheds on Monday 7 July 2008.

For PowerPoint presentations of this Forum, please follow the link:“Early Childhood Education and Care: what can we learn from the international scene?”
      Karen Malone  .
 

The Foundation was proud to support the visit of Dr Karen Malone who is currently Professor of Social Sciences in the Faculty of Education at the University of Wollongong. She is also Asia-Pacific Director of the global UNESCO-MOST Growing up in Cities (GUIC) project that focuses on children and youth evaluating their quality of life. Dr Malone is also an external consultant to UNICEF's Child- Friendly Cities (CFC) initiative and is currently chairing the committee developing a CFC network in the Asia-Pacific region.

The purpose of Karen Malone’s visit was to conduct sessions to provide participants with an understanding of why children’s participation is important. However the key objective was to provide participants with a toolkit of knowledge and skills to enable them to confidently consult with young children in a variety of contexts.

Consulting Kids link

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