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CPD Programmes

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Are you new to Aistear or looking to develop your practice in using Aistear further? Either way, Continuing Professional Development in line with the principles and objectives of Aistear the Early Childhood Curriculum Framework and the Aistear Síolta Practice Guide will ensure you and your team are delivering quality early childhood experiences and adhering to professional levels of practice.

Following a consultation meeting, we can identify the most appropriate CPD needs of your team or individuals and take it from there! You may decide to attend a CPD session with other early childhood educators or avail of a private delivery in your own setting with scheduled follow up implementation supports. The choice is yours!

Planning and Assessing Using Aistear’s Themes
  • Assessment is the ongoing process of collecting, documenting, reflecting on, and using information to develop rich portraits of children as learners in order to support and enhance their future learning’… Aistear.
  • Assessment enables the Educator to find out what children understand, how they think, what they are able to do, and what their dispositions and interests are. This builds rich stories of children as active learners in order to support further learning and development. In doing this, the Educator uses the assessment information to provide challenging and enjoyable experiences for children, to choose appropriate supports for them, and to document and plan the next steps in their learning.
  • Meantóir offers a 6 session CPD Programme on Planning and Assessing using Aistear’s Themes. The Learning Story Approach to meaningful assessment for learning is utilised. This programme will support you to understand why, what, and how we plan for, and assess young children’s learning and development. This includes:
  • • Short Term and Medium Term Planning using Children’s Interests
  • • Assessing children’s learning and development under Aistears Learning Themes
  • • The Learning Story Approach
  • • Strengths Based Writing Techniques
  • • Embedding Assessment Practice in the Early Childhood Curriculum
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Mo Scéal: Moving from Preschool to Primary
  • Mo Scéal: Moving from Preschool to Primary: Supporting Young Children and their Families with Transition
  • Are you interested in CPD for your team around facilitating effective transitions and in using Mo Scéal? Meantóir will be offering CPD sessions on the implementation of Mo Scéal in 2019. This 2 session programme will support you to:
  • • Explore the fundamental principles of positive and effective transition from Pre-School to Primary School
  • • Communicate with Parents and Building Partnerships to Promote Children’s Learning and Communicating
  • • Plan and Prepare Meaningful Transition Information under the Aistear Learning Themes
  • • Practice Strengths Based Writing
  • • Use Mo Scéal Tools and Templates
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Emergent Inquiry Based Curriculum.
Educator Professional Development Programme
  • Emergent curriculum is utilised when the skilled Educator learns how to use and build on children’s ideas, interests and experiences as starting points for curriculum planning. It can be all too easy to fall into the habit of offering predictable curriculum themes year after year. Despite the learning opportunities that seasonal themes can present, they may not interest all children and can inhibit children from following their own natural learning interests. This practical CPD programme will enable you to feel more confident to plan curriculum that focuses on being responsive to children's interests and creates meaningful learning experiences for children.
  • WHAT is included?
  • • What is Emergent Curriculum and how does it link to Curriculum and Quality frameworks?
  • • Enquiry based learning – following the interests of Babies, Toddlers and Pre-School children
  • • Reflecting the child’s reality
  • • Blending Aistear themes and goals with emergent curriculum
  • • The Skillful Educator
  • • Planning, Assessing and Documenting emergent learning
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Learning Stories and Planning for Children’s Interests.
Educator Professional Development Programme
  • Learning Stories are now the most favoured method of observation and assessment utilised by early childhood services to document young children’s progress in learning. The Learning Story Approach enables the Educator to collect, document, reflecting on, and use their observations to develop rich portraits of children as learners in order to plan for and build on further learning. The Learning Story format is suitable to use with babies, toddlers and young children and is constructed in a variety of ways.
  • This Meantóir CPD programme will enable Educators to:
  • • Appreciate the importance of formative assessment for children’s learning
  • • Recognise the type and quantity of information to document
  • • Utilise different Learning Story formats
  • • Practice strengths based writing techniques
  • • Compile Progress Portfolios that are unique to each child
  • • Transfer the ‘Moving Forward/What Next’ component of a Learning Story into emergent planning using Aistear learning goals.
Send us an expression of interest

If you are interested in accessing any of the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Programmes on offer from Meantóir, please complete the details below and submit. Alternatively you can directly email info@meantoir.ie or call 086 243 1695.

Expression Of Interest Continuing Professional Development (CPD)


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