Currency, sufficiency and relevance

As I continue to rekindle my business, I still find myself thinking about currency, sufficiency and relevance.

I have a lot of teaching experience. After teaching in primary, secondary and early education settings, I worked with Meerilinga, universities, training organisations, schools and centres to create interactive, engaging professional learning opportunities for teachers and educators.

I have written curriculum for schools. The Aussie Lunch Box World – Healthy eating on-line teacher resource was written in 2004. The disability awareness Count Us In! Teaching Resource Package was written in 2013 (and still available for Early Childhood, Middle Childhood, and Early Adolescence). The Fundamental Movement Skills Teacher’s Package was published in 2013 (and still available here). The Goodbye Graffiti Curriculum materials were first published in 2009. I revised it in 2015 and it has been revised again in 2020. (See here). Since then, I have written curriculum materials for the Certificate III in and Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care and the Diploma of Leadership and Management (and updated them each year as new versions of the national training packages have been released) and worked with early childhood educators in education and care settings to document emergent curriculum in keeping with the Early Years Learning Framework and inquiry-led, play-based learning.

I have facilitation and co-facilitation skills and renew my International Association of Facilitators’ Certified Professional Facilitator accreditation every three years. I am an active member of facilitation networks and use facilitation in meetings and groups (paid and unpaid).

I am a researcher by nature and use the research skills from my PhD and subsequent research projects every time I speak to, teach, train or facilitate a group.

I keep abreast of news, initiatives in schools, challenges to communities and issues of concern. I am still teaching (Educational Psychology, Child Protection), still working in schools and centres, still writing (lots of blogs!), still researching (competency frameworks, schemes, leadership) and still presenting speeches, lectures adn workshops.

I still see teachers and educators grappling with issues such as creating meaningful learning experiences for children and young people, looking for engaging teaching resources and seeking evidence-based ways of supporting their own and their students’ well being.

I still see groups that need facilitators who are ‘mess free’ to support them to work together to achieve strong, clear outcomes.

I still see organisations that need people to mine publications for previous findings, bring people together to gather perspectives and lived experience and suggest directions and actions.

How can I help your work be current, sufficient and relevant?