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Educational leadershipThe educational leader of a service plays a significant role in guiding and developing educators’ and families’ understandings about play and leisure-based learning, and the significance of the early years in the education continuum for children.
What is an Educational Leader?The educational leader in children’s education and care services has an influential role in inspiring, motivating, affirming and also challen-ging or extending the practice and pedagogy of educators. The role is a collaborative endeavour involving inquiry and reflection, which can significantly impact on the important work educators do with children and families.The role of the educational leader is the focus of Standard 7.2 of the National Quality Standard – Governance and leadership. Where effective leadership establishes a culture of reflective practice to encourage continuous improvement across all aspects of the service, the role of educational leader supports this culture and community through leading the development and implementation of the educational program and assessment, as well as the planning cycle. The educational leader is supported by the service’s leadership team to effect positive change, including playing an integral role in mentoring, guiding and supporting educators.
What are the requirements and responsibilities of the Educational Leader?The role of the educational leader is primarily to:
collaborate with educators and provide curriculum direction and guidance
support educators to effectively implement the cycle of planning to enhance programs and practices
lead the development and implementation of an effective educa-tional program in the service
Lilly Pilly Community Pre-school Inc.96 Kingsford DriveBrunswick Heads NSW 2483Ph. (02) 6685 1621
www.lillypilllypreschool.nsw.edu.au
ensure children’s learning and de-velopment are guided by the learning outcomes of the Early Years Learning Framework and/or the Framework for School Age Care or other approved learning frameworks.
ACECQA National Education LeaderACECQA and its National Education Leader, Rhonda Livingstone are committed to assisting the education and care sector to implement the National Quality Framework while supporting providers, educa-tional leaders and educators in the important work of enhancing out-comes for children and families.
Regular articles by our National Education Leader are published in the National Education Leader section of ACECQA’s We Hear You blog.
Educational leadership resources
There are a range of resources to support the role of educational leader that can be found in the Resources & Research area of our website. On the Videos page are various interviews, presentations and webcasts.
ACECQA has also compiled a range of resource links that you may find useful in your educational leader role. The resources are grouped under each quality area on the National Quality Standard page of our website. Quality Area 1 resources may be particularly useful in leading the development and implementation of the educational program and assessment and planning cycle at your service.
Lilly Pilly Community Pre-school Inc.96 Kingsford DriveBrunswick Heads NSW 2483Ph. (02) 6685 1621
www.lillypilllypreschool.nsw.edu.au