The National Quality Standard - Third edition

Name: The National Quality Standard - Third edition
SKU: TS0325
Price: 59.95 AUD
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Author: Bridie Raban
ISBN: 9781922530813

Towards continuous improvement

By
Bridie Raban

Essential Resources' The National Quality Standard - Third edition is your guide to the NQS. The National Quality Standards (NQS) serve as the benchmark for early childhood education and care in Australia.

Updated to align with the Early Yearly Learning Framework (EYLF V2.0, 2022), the National Quality Standard - Third edition is the essential early childhood educator resource for those working towards quality improvement plans. The resource draws the big picture of the National Quality Framework (NQF), and how the NQS and EYLF are a part of it. Each of the seven NQS Quality Areas is explained along with the individual elements. There are several questions for each element to stimulate reflection - "what" are your strengths and "how" can you plan for improvement?

Early childhood educators, administrators and centres should buy The National Quality Standard book or ebook today!

Ages: 0-5 | Pages: 82 | Code: TS0325 | ISBN: 9781922530813

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Bridie Raban

Bridie Raban was the Foundation Mooroolbeek Professor of Early Childhood Studies at the University of Melbourne. She is currently an Honorary Professorial Fellow at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education and in 2021, she was awarded an Honorary University Fellowship by Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU). Her past research has focused on language and literacy development, teacher change and development, curriculum and assessment for the early childhood years and quality provision. She was the first Professor of Early Childhood Education in Victoria and the second in Australia, and before this she was Professor of Primary Education (Early Years) at the University of Warwick and President of the UK Reading Association.

Contents
Preface to the third edition	4
Chapter 1: The road to reform	5
Bridie Raban
Chapter 2: Towards a quality improvement plan	10
Bridie Raban
Chapter 3: Quality Area 1 – Educational program and Practice	16
Bridie Raban
Chapter 4: Quality Area 2 – Children's health and safety	25
Joy Gibson & Bridie Raban
Chapter 5: Quality Area 3 – Physical environment	33
Kay Margetts
Chapter 6: Quality Area 4 –Staffing arrangements	40
Sanobia Palkhiwala & Manjula Waniganayake
Chapter 7: Quality Area 5 – Relationships with children	46
Andrea Nolan
Chapter 8: Quality Area 6 – Collaborative partnerships with families and communities	53
Liz Rouse
Chapter 9: Quality Area 7 – Governance and leadership	62
Manjula Waniganayake & Sanobia Palkhiwala
Chapter 10: Active participation, practice and pedagogy	70
Bridie Raban & Andrea Nolan
Footnotes	73
References	76