Regulatory Authority Priority Series: Support for Educational Leadership 

Using the Professional Standards for OSHC Educators to Support Your Team

Facilitated by Rarni Rothwell

The Queensland Early Childhood Regulatory Authority (ECRA) is responsible for regulating the early childhood education and care sector including outside school hours care. They have a vital role in making sure children are safe and receive high-quality education and care. This series spotlights the priority areas they will be focusing on until 2025. 

This session will focus on Support for educational leadership, more specifically empowering the educational leader to develop educators’ skills using the Professional Standards for OSHC Educators. 

The session provides an introduction to the OSHC Professional Standards for Educators and content includes:     

• Introduction to the OSHC Professional Standards for Educators     
• Facilitating educator performance evaluation using the OSHC Professional Standards for Educators     
• Developing meaningful plans with goals to support educator learning and development linked to the National Quality Framework (NQS) and Quality      Improvement Plan (QIP)    
• Providing regular performance and progress feedback     
• Embedding practice and critical reflection on performance to drive service quality and educator engagement     
• Evaluation framework and research

This session is suited to OSHC professionals at all career stages but will have a special focus on how educational leaders can support their team across all the career stages. 

NQS: QA4, QA7