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Leadership 3:
Leading Partnerships & Collaborations
An online course from The Education Hub
This is the personal workbook of
Notes and reflections from Part 1. Collaborating with families
The importance of collaboration
Develop your leadership
Strategies that support collaboration
Parent partnership
Look again at the list of positive outcomes of parent partnership that you encountered in the previous reading.
The ethic of hospitality
Consider the most recent interaction you have had with a family member.
It’s not always easy
The speakers in the previous video suggest there are many reasons why families seem distant and difficult to reach, sensitive, easily upset, and even confrontational, many of which are factors outside of the early childhood setting context.
Consider how using each of these modes of response to family’s disagreements and challenges makes you feel.
Notes and reflections from Part 2. Culturally responsive collaborations
Cultural generalisations
Develop your leadership
Culturally responsive pedagogy
Superdiversity
Culturally responsive practices
Drawing on cultural expertise
Think critically about this.
Also think about how people with culturally diverse expertise feel about contributing their knowledge and skills.
Notes and reflections from Part 3. Inclusion and social justice.
Develop your leadership
Inclusion
Social justice
Can you relate this understanding of vertical and horizontal identity to yourself?
Neurodiversity
Trauma-informed practice
Notes and reflections from Part 4. Collaborating with children
Why collaborate with children?
Develop your leadership
The rights of the child
What is your image of the child? Spend a moment writing it down or creating a visual about it.
Listening to children
Active listening
There are implications for the leadership of an early childhood setting here, as the child’s participation depends on the teacher’s availability and capacity to observe and interpret the child’s intentions, to take the child’s perspective and try to experience some of the child’s way of understanding and expressing themselves.
Equity and social justice in collaborating with children
Consulting with children
You might find it helpful to think about the image of the child here.