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Outstanding Early Years Manager Course

£145.99 + VAT

Helping current and aspiring managers develop their leadership skills and build their knowledge-base. 

The fully online course will provide best practice guidance on being an effective manager and leader – including how to get the most out of your team and deliver high-quality education for all children in your care.

It will also explore current early years policy, changes and developments in the sector, and how the role of early years manager has evolved.

The course will provide practical support and strategies for managing your team, and will also help practitioners meet Ofsted’s Leadership and Management judgement criteria and reach outstanding.

The course is designed for flexible learning so you can fit it around your busy schedule, and with a year’s access you can learn at your own pace.

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Course overview

Course overview

  • An up-to-date look at early years public policy and the implications for your setting
  • Exploring changes and developments to the sector and your role
  • Best practice staff management and getting the most out of your team – including performance, engagement and high-quality CPD
  • Guidance for supporting staff mental health and wellbeing
  • What makes a good leader? Examining theory, practice and how to be the most effective leader you can be
  • Driving continuous improvement across your setting – embedding self-evaluation processes, managing change and best practice budget management

How does it work?

The fully online course is delivered via our specialist learning platform UNIQSKILLS – each module will consist of training videos, written materials and a test at the end to check your learning.

The course is designed for independent, flexible learning so you can learn at your own pace, in your own time. And with a year’s access, you can keep going back to refresh your knowledge!

Agenda

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  • Module 1:

  • Early years management: your role and current sector outlook

  • Sue Cowley
    Sue Cowley
    Author, Presenter and Trainer
  • An overview: current picture for early years public policy
  • Changes and developments within the early years sector
  • How has the role of the Early Years Manager evolved?
  • Achieving high standards of care and learning for all children
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  • Module 2:

  • Effective staff management and support

  • Sue Cowley
    Sue Cowley
    Author, Presenter and Trainer
  • Evaluating staff practice and driving continuous improvement
  • Best practice performance management
  • Employee engagement and motivation
  • Training and development: prioritising learning in your setting
  • Supporting staff mental health and wellbeing
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  • Module 3:

  • Leading your setting: what makes a good leader?

  • Sue Cowley
    Sue Cowley
    Author, Presenter and Trainer
  • Management vs leadership in early years
  • Leadership styles and new ways of leading
  • Developing your role and leadership skills
  • Strengthening team relationships and internal collaboration
  • Engaging with learners, parents and the community
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  • Module 4:

  • Improving your setting: self-evaluation, effectiveness and sustainable change

  • Sue Cowley
    Sue Cowley
    Author, Presenter and Trainer
  • Embedding continuous improvement processes into your setting
  • Evaluating your practice and identifying areas for improvement
  • Implementing improvement plans and reviewing impact
  • Effectively managing and sustaining change
  • Finance and budgets: getting more out of less

Testimonials

  • Manager
    Over the Rainbow Playschool
    “I have been running my setting for 12 years and went from employee to manager with no training. This is the first course I have done that I feel I have learnt lots of information about how I should be managing my setting and I feel more confident now.”

Speakers

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Sue Cowley

Sue Cowley

Author, Presenter and Trainer
Sue Cowley is a writer, presenter, teacher educator and author of 30 books on education. After qualifying as an early years teacher with a first class BEd (Hons), she taught into primary and secondary schools and overseas. Sue’s international bestseller Getting the Buggers to Behave has been translated into ten languages and is a set text at many universities. Her best selling guide for NQTs How to Survive your First Year in Teaching has been in print for 20 years. Sue has written articles and columns for numerous education publications, including the TES, Teach Primary, Early Years Educator and Nursery World. She was a regular presenter on Teachers TV and has featured in numerous education videos. She now works internationally as a teacher trainer and presenter. Sue has been part of the management team at her local preschool for the last ten years, and over that time has helped the setting move from a ‘Satisfactory’ Ofsted grading to an ‘Outstanding’ one. Her latest books are The Ultimate Guide to Differentiation and The Ultimate Guide to Mark Making in the Early Years published by Bloomsbury.

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