Courses - Early Childhood
Arts
Printing Techniques
Printmaking is a great way to create easy and really effective art where everyone can achieve results.
Date: Monday 19 August 2013
Facilitator: Stephanie Woodman
Creative Kiwi Christmas Craft Ideas
Celebrate Christmas in you centre or school Kiwi style. With a range of original stories, related crafts, science, maths and literacy ideas that all relate back to the fun summery Christmases we love, this course is a perfect way to inject some new energy into your Christmas craft programme.
Date: Monday 2 December 2013
Facilitator: Rachel Goodchild
Behaviour Management
Promoting Social Competence in 0-3 year olds
The first three years create a base of behaviours that help children develop positive relationships with themselves, peers and adults. This course takes a look at what we can expect from a child under the age of three during social interactions, how to promote positive interactions, and what to do if children have barriers to creating friendships.
Date: Monday 24 June 2013
Facilitator: Rachel Goodchild
Promoting Social Competence in 3-5 year olds
This course takes a look at the ways in which we can help our young children develop social competence from three to five, including activities, programme planning, developing automatic behaviours and modelling appropriate behaviour.
Date: Monday 12 August 2013
Facilitator: Rachel Goodchild
Building Resilience in Early Childhood
Resilience is a life skill that will enable children to manage success and failure throughout their lives. Warwick Pudney will work with you to explore ways to foster the development of resilience in young children.
Date: Monday 22 April 2013
Facilitator: Warwick Pudney
Cross Curricular
Promoting Social Competence in 0-3 year olds
The first three years create a base of behaviours that help children develop positive relationships with themselves, peers and adults. This course takes a look at what we can expect from a child under the age of three during social interactions, how to promote positive interactions, and what to do if children have barriers to creating friendships.
Date: Monday 24 June 2013
Facilitator: Rachel Goodchild
Using Schema in Programme Planning for 0-3 year olds
Are there repeated behaviours in your centre for individuals or groups of children? Are the children in your centre focussed on activities that move objects from one place to the other, or perhaps on changing the form of an object? Do they turn objects, drop them, hide them, and post them?
Date: Monday 24 June 2013
Facilitator: Rachel Goodchild
Promoting Social Competence in 3-5 year olds
This course takes a look at the ways in which we can help our young children develop social competence from three to five, including activities, programme planning, developing automatic behaviours and modelling appropriate behaviour.
Date: Monday 12 August 2013
Facilitator: Rachel Goodchild
Using Schema in Programme Planning for 3-5 year olds
Are there repeated behaviours in your centre for individuals or groups of children? Are the children in your centre focussed on activities that move objects from one place to the other, or perhaps on changing the form of an object? Do they turn objects, drop them, hide them, and post them?
Date: Monday 12 August 2013
Facilitator: Rachel Goodchild
Introduction to Basic Brain Gym Movements
Brain Gym®, used regularly in the classroom, assists all children to improve their fundamental abilities including focus, organisation, comprehension, physical coordination, social and communication skills, memory, attentiveness and more. Learn the basic movements of Brain Gym and the benefits to be gained by for ALL students.
Date: Friday 24 May 2013
Facilitator: Barbara Wards
How Shall we Plan and Assess?
Take a day to look at the different models and forms of planning and assessment suitable for ECE and how these can be shaped and adapted to meet the needs of your centre.
Date: Monday 27 May 2013
Facilitator: Rachel Goodchild
Building a Brain that Works
Get learning going with movement, Brain Gym and emotion.
Infant reflexes get the brain/body up and running.
What happens next and why is emotion so important?
Date: Saturday 10 August 2013
Facilitator: Barbara Wards
Movement to Music
Understanding the value of music and movement for preschoolers, a practical tutorial on song selection, “moveography,” games and activities, with a list of recommended resources available.
Date: Friday 1 November 2013
Facilitator: Ellie Davidson
Creative Kiwi Christmas Craft Ideas
Celebrate Christmas in you centre or school Kiwi style. With a range of original stories, related crafts, science, maths and literacy ideas that all relate back to the fun summery Christmases we love, this course is a perfect way to inject some new energy into your Christmas craft programme.
Date: Monday 2 December 2013
Facilitator: Rachel Goodchild
Building Resilience in Early Childhood
Resilience is a life skill that will enable children to manage success and failure throughout their lives. Warwick Pudney will work with you to explore ways to foster the development of resilience in young children.
Date: Monday 22 April 2013
Facilitator: Warwick Pudney
e-learning
Blogging for Beginners
The session will focus on providing an introduction to blogs by showing how to use a range of common free blogging platforms and set yourself up to access 100s of blogs using a feed reader.
Date: Thursday 30 May 2013
Facilitator: Tara Fagan
First Aid
Revalidation First Aid July
This six hour CFA (comprehensive first aid) Revalidation course meets the Department of Labour's "First Aid for Workplaces - A Good Practice Guide (September 2009)" and all NZQA First Aid training requirements.
Date: Monday 15 July 2013
Facilitator: New Zealand Red Cros
Comprehensive First Aid July - Two-Day Workshop
This certified 2-day course meets the Department of Labour's "First Aid for Workplaces - A Good Practice Guide (September 2009)" and all NZQA First Aid training requirements. It teaches you how to manage an emergency scene and how to cope with most first aid emergencies.
Date: Tuesday 16 July 2013
Facilitator: New Zealand Red Cros
Revalidation First Aid August
This six hour CFA (comprehensive first aid) Revalidation course meets the Department of Labour's "First Aid for Workplaces - A Good Practice Guide (September 2009)" and all NZQA First Aid training requirements.
Date: Saturday 24 August 2013
Facilitator: New Zealand Red Cros
Comprehensive First Aid August - Two-Day Workshop
This certified 2-day course meets the Department of Labour's "First Aid for Workplaces - A Good Practice Guide (September 2009)" and all NZQA First Aid training requirements. It teaches you how to manage an emergency scene and how to cope with most first aid emergencies.
Date: Friday 30 August 2013
Facilitator: New Zealand Red Cros
Revalidation First Aid October
This six hour CFA (comprehensive first aid) Revalidation course meets the Department of Labour's "First Aid for Workplaces - A Good Practice Guide (September 2009)" and all NZQA First Aid training requirements.
Date: Wednesday 9 October 2013
Facilitator: New Zealand Red Cros
Comprehensive First Aid October - Two-Day Workshop
This certified 2-day course meets the Department of Labour's "First Aid for Workplaces - A Good Practice Guide (September 2009)" and all NZQA First Aid training requirements. It teaches you how to manage an emergency scene and how to cope with most first aid emergencies.
Date: Thursday 10 October 2013
Facilitator: New Zealand Red Cros
Revalidation First Aid November
This six hour CFA (comprehensive first aid) Revalidation course meets the Department of Labour's "First Aid for Workplaces - A Good Practice Guide (September 2009)" and all NZQA First Aid training requirements.
Date: Saturday 30 November 2013
Facilitator: New Zealand Red Cros
Comprehensive First Aid December - Two-Day Workshop
This certified 2-day course meets the Department of Labour's "First Aid for Workplaces - A Good Practice Guide (September 2009)" and all NZQA First Aid training requirements. It teaches you how to manage an emergency scene and how to cope with most first aid emergencies.
Date: Friday 6 December 2013
Facilitator: New Zealand Red Cros
Revalidation First Aid April
This six hour CFA (comprehensive first aid) Revalidation course meets the Department of Labour's "First Aid for Workplaces - A Good Practice Guide (September 2009)" and all NZQA First Aid training requirements.
Date: Monday 22 April 2013
Facilitator: New Zealand Red Cros
Comprehensive First Aid April - Two-Day Workshop
This certified 2-day course meets the Department of Labour's "First Aid for Workplaces - A Good Practice Guide (September 2009)" and all NZQA First Aid training requirements. It teaches you how to manage an emergency scene and how to cope with most first aid emergencies.
Date: Tuesday 23 April 2013
Facilitator: New Zealand Red Cros
Revalidation First Aid January
This six hour CFA (comprehensive first aid) Revalidation course meets the Department of Labour's "First Aid for Workplaces - A Good Practice Guide (September 2009)" and all NZQA First Aid training requirements.
Date: Saturday 26 January 2013
Facilitator: New Zealand Red Cros
Comprehensive First Aid January - Two-Day Workshop
This certified 2-day course meets the Department of Labour's "First Aid for Workplaces - A Good Practice Guide (September 2009)" and all NZQA First Aid training requirements. It teaches you how to manage an emergency scene and how to cope with most first aid emergencies.
Date: Monday 28 January 2013
Facilitator: New Zealand Red Cros
Health and Physical Education
Leadership
The Leading Edge - Leadership Development Programme 2013
An innovative programme based on a highly effective leadership development model designed by Impact Education and used in schools and other organisations. If you have high expectations of yourself and your potential as an educational leader then this programme may be the best personal commitment you have ever made. The programme is made up of 4 one-day modules and one personal 1:1 coaching session.
Date: Tuesday 2 July 2013
Facilitator: Impact Education
Managing your own Well-being
Feeling a little STRESSED? Struggling to juggle all the facets of the job, not to mention life outside work? This course provides intensely practical and realistic tools to help you stay focused, motivated, energized and even balanced.
Date: Tuesday 24 September 2013
Facilitator: Rachel Goodchild
Stepping up to Supervisor
If the children can make the job, the adults can sometimes break it!
If you're in training, or trained and looking to develop leadership skills in readiness for the next step of your career, then this course is made for you.
Date: Monday 2 December 2013
Facilitator: Rachel Goodchild
Debt Reduction and Budgeting
Mana Education Centre has an opportunity to offer this 1-hour personal development workshop from the Petone Budget Service. This session will cover how to prepare a budget, plan to payback debt and to do a cash flow forecast.
Date: Friday 22 February 2013
Facilitator: Jennifer Gini
COURSE FULL - The Leading Edge - Leadership Development Programme 2013
COURSE FULL An innovative programme based on a highly effective leadership development model designed by Impact Education and used in schools and other organisations. If you have high expectations of yourself and your potential as an educational leader then this programme may be the best personal commitment you have ever made. The programme is made up of 4 one-day modules and one personal 1:1 coaching session.
Date: Tuesday 26 March 2013
Facilitator: Impact Education
Dealing with Difficult Behaviour and Resistance
Mark will equip participants with the knowledge and skills to deal with the defensive reactions and responses which can often be encountered during difficult conversations and performance processes.
Date: Monday 1 July 2013
Facilitator: Mark Sweeney
Coaching and Mentoring
Coaching is now being recognised as they key strategy for developing the capability of teaching professionals. Coaching and mentoring are not loose or soft approaches - they are highly focused strategies which help you to support, strengthen or stretch others to take charge of what they need to do to be effective in their roles.
Date: Monday 26 August 2013
Facilitator: Mark Sweeney
Managing Staff Performance
As an educational leader achieving your aims and goals depends on the performance of others. When people are performing well things tend to be straightforward but when performance problems emerge things can become very difficult.
Date: Tuesday 27 August 2013
Facilitator: Mark Sweeney
Leading Through 2013 - we shape our tools, thereafter they shape us
The begining of the year is critical in terms of shaping expectations, focusing commitment and creating a sense of motivation and purpose for the year - however the planning for this needs to happen well in advance. Repeated by popular demand after the session in December 2012.
Date: Monday 4 March 2013
Facilitator: Mark Sweeney
Literacy
Boys and Books in ECE
Get boys passionate about books and reading: treasure hunt, monsters, how it works, pirates and parrots, body books, wheels and balls, facts and figures, superheroes, trucks and stuff, scares and surprises, dead things, laughter and jokes, riddles and funny Q's, animals, food and fights, space and astronautic adventures ...
Date: Tuesday 23 April 2013
Facilitator: Warwick Pudney
Maori
Mathematics
PRTs / Beginning Teachers / Tutor Teachers
Special Needs
Support Staff and Caretakers
Transition to School
