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Leadership and Advocacy in Early Childhood
Learning Outcome 1: Demonstrate knowledge of the key principles of leadership and management in practice in early childhood education and care services and settings underpinned by theoretical and practical perspectives on administration, management and leadership.
Learning Outcome 2: Critically reflect on the role that advocacy plays in early childhood education (locally, nationally and internationally) and identify the skills that a strong advocate for the ECEC profession should display.
Learning Outcome 3: Critically analyse and understand the role of the educational leader: including relationships, responsibilities, expectations, ethical practice and transition to an educational leader. Get top-notch online assignment help.
Task Description
This task requires students to draw on learning from Modules 1 to 6 and one (1) of the provided educational leader interviews to write a critical review of the role, responsibilities, and challenges of the early childhood educational leader.
In developing and explaining these points, students will:
Demonstrate an understanding of key principles of leadership and management in practice within an early childhood education and care service setting
Critically reflect on what advocacy is in practice, its role in ECEC, and the skills needed/displayed by a strong advocate for the ECEC profession
Demonstrate an understanding of how to build a supportive and collaborative environment for children, parents, community and staff as a leader within an early childhood education and care service setting
Rationale
As an early childhood teacher, it is important that you:
Have an understanding and knowledge of varied and appropriate leadership styles
Understand your role as a leader within an early childhood education and care service setting
Can critically consider the impact of a leader and advocate in an early childhood education and care service/on the early childhood sector
Task Instructions
Three interviews with educational leaders in ECEC have been provided in the Task 2 folder on the Blackboard site.
Choose ONE interview with an educational leader and prepare a critical review of their role, responsibilities, and challenges as an early childhood educational leader in line with the following headings:
Interview selected
Key roles of the educational leader in this interview
Key responsibilities of the educational leader in this interview
The leadership style evident in this interview, and the theoretical underpinnings of this leadership style that are evident in this interview
The challenges faced by the education leader in this interview and examples of these challenges that are outlined in the interview
How the leader in this interview demonstrates advocacy/acts as a strong advocate, the skills they require for this advocacy role
The role that advocacy plays in the service of this interview and/or the broader early childhood sector
Formatting and style
You are required to use the headings outlined above to structure your portfolio; these have been provided in a template for you in the task folder
All parts of this task should be written in third person - this is a portfolio about another
Referencing
APA Referencing style is required to be used for this task.