As the Director choosing professional development for your team isn’t and shouldn’t be a quick process. There are key elements to ensuring the workshops, conferences, books and webinars your team of early childhood educators sign up for actually has a purpose. And that is to support your team now, solve a problem and rejuvenate their energy to continue their important work and impact. As a guest on the podcast, The Director’s Club hosted with Noelle D’Intino, this is what guided our conversation.

Here’s what you’ll hear in this episode:

• what an early childhood consultant’s role is and how we support directors and teams
• aspects to consider when choosing professional development for your team
• the biggest gaps in ECE’s knowledge that leads them to leaving
• how to cultivate confidence for your new hires during the orientation process
• why provide opportunities of professional development for your team vs. individually

and of course more!

DIRECTORS GUIDE TO PLANNING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR YOUR TEAM

Now that you know the important aspects of choosing professional development for your team, your next step is curating a strategic professional development plan!

5 PHASES TO CHOOSING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR YOUR TEAM

Here’s a quick overview of what you’ll find inside the guide!

REFLECTIVE PRACTICE

• Before you make any decisions about PD, reflect on the last 3 months about you, your team, the children & families (prompts inside the guide to help you!)

TAKE A PD INVENTORY

• Knowing what you’ve taken or have continued access to will help you narrow your focus and support your team in the best way.

CONFIDENCE INVENTORY

• Become aware of what your teams strengths and areas of support are will help you to become a more confident leader!

USE YOUR TEAMS STRENGTHS

• Reflect on your team as a whole and as individuals, utilizing their strengths, areas of support and interests.

PLAN OUT YOUR NEXT 3 MONTHS

• Now that you have a clear goal, know your teams strengths, interests, and areas of support; next you’ll want to use this to guide you in curating professional development opportunities for the next 3 months.  

Plus inside the free guide their are recommendations of ECE consultants to save you time!

HOW I CAN SUPPORT YOU WITH PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR YOUR TEAM

An Early Childhood Consultants main role is to support Educators and Directors to grow in their practice, share practical strategies that help solve problems you’re team is experiencing and create learning experiences for your team that are engaging & rejuvenating.

This is exactly what I curate with the professional education and resources available.

The Custom Team PD Bundle is a Directors one-stop-shop for team workshops on loose parts play, solving behaviours, curating your environment and emergent curriculum that works with your teams energy and schedule.

The Custom Team PD Bundle includes 90 day unlimited access to any 3 workshops for your entire early years team. So this means that you can watch the workshops as a team on zoom or have them go through it individually when it works best for them. As the director, you’ll also get all the resources to easily welcome your team to the workshop, track their progress and collect certificates.

Check out The Custom Team PD Bundle and choose 3 workshops to support your team!

WHAT IS THE DIRECTORS CLUB?

Noelle D’Intino is the Founder of The Directors Club.  She also runs Scribbletime – A Center For Early Learning, a successful childcare center in North Attleboro, Massachusetts.  She’s been running her center since 2005 and has experienced all the highs and lows that come with being a business owner.  Noelle has developed all the resources in The Directors Club personally, and they’re all based on the best practices that we have refined over the years.  These tools work, we know it because we live and breathe childcare and we are thriving! If you’re a Director head on over to her website and check out all the support and resources there waiting for you to support your team.

MORE TEAM PD RESOURCES

Team PD Planning Guide

Early Years Starter Kit – Mini Orientation Course

Custom Team PD Bundle

Live Workshops – Online & In person