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Employee engagement is a hot topic. Everywhere employees are reviewing their careers, and the value of professional development planning remains a key influencer in retaining and attracting employees. Every year, Petit Early Learning Journey conducts an annual employee engagement survey. Between each survey, we constantly engage, listen and reflect with our people and take positive [...]
Early childhood professional development and training is a topic that is integral to our culture at Petit Early Learning Journey. Our learning management system (LMS) which is accessible to all educators and employees via the Educator Portal is one of the tools we use to impart knowledge, foster team building and promote a high quality [...]
Are you a leader? Participating in early childhood professional development is an excellent step towards becoming a leader in your sector. There are many reasons for Educators in early learning to participate in professional development. Developing leadership skills is one. With so many changes in the early childhood sector, especially with the introduction of the [...]
At Petit ELJ, our beliefs extend to the children, their families and our educators, teachers, chefs, centre leaders and national support office. We take a whole team approach to listening and learning from our early childhood professionals. Over the last three years, we implemented annual employment engagement surveys to provide a benchmark for where we [...]
Learning and growing are a part of life, regardless of age. The early childhood sector strongly focuses on professional development for teams and individuals. As well, Petit Early Learning Journey recognises that personal development and individual employee growth matter. We often refer to children when discussing personal development within our sector. However, as an employer, [...]
All children deserve the best start in life. At Petit Early Learning Journey, inspiring children's learning and development journey is embedded in all we do. Children thrive when we include them and their families in each child's learning journey. Educators' qualifications, personal qualities, knowledge of development theories and skills make an enormous difference in nurturing [...]
Words wield an enormous amount of power. Whether written or spoken, the power of words can detract, humble, honour, encourage and empower. Using professional language in early childhood education and care (ECEC) is a choice to support and respect our ECEC sector and its Educators. Over the last several months, Petit Early Learning Journey has [...]
There are many moments as parents that give pause, make us question whether going one way or another is right in any given situation. Children’s speech is one of those areas that it’s hard to tell if there’s an immediate need for intervention. You might find yourself as a parent thinking: Is it normal for [...]
Last year, Petit Early Learning Journey introduced a new national perpetual award. Centre of the Year recognises and celebrates overall team excellence in the delivery of early education and care. The new award complements are centre-based annual Excellence Awards. To decide the overall winner for Centre of the Year, we looked at four different categories [...]
The National Quality Standard (NQS) forms part of the National Quality Framework (NQF) introduced in 2012 to improve early childhood education and care across Australia. Petit Early Learning Journey centres are evaluated against this standard by their state regulatory authority. The NQS provides a national standard for seven quality areas that are important outcomes for [...]
