Supporting the Transition into Group Care for Birth to 3-year-olds (2-part series)

Join Dr Katherine Bussey for this two-part online workshop unpacking how to create smooth, well-organised transitions and orientations for children, families, and colleagues in ECEC settings.

This two-part workshop will unpack how to support children, families and colleagues through collaborative, organised and well thought out transitions. This includes key theory and information related to orientations and transitions into ECEC services and between rooms. You will need to bring information about how transitions and orientations currently occur in your ECEC service to the first workshop so we can brainstorm together how to enhance and improve them moving forward.

The second part of the workshop will highlight particular actions you and your team members can take in order to take charge of each child and family’s’ smooth start at your service. We will look at choreographed actions and agreements about best practice and what leaders can do to facilitate the success of orientations and transitions for their team. 

 

Session 1

What creates a smooth start to transitioning into Group Care?

Participants will:

  • Share your current experiences with orientations and transitions and examine where to tweak and where to transform
  • Explore what setting up a smooth start entails.
  • You will consider the different challenges that typically occur during orientations and transitions and how we can work as a team to set orientations and transitions up successfully.

 

Session 2

Strategic and collective work as a team to support a smooth start: Putting the plan into place

Participants will:

  • Actively work on tweaking and/or transforming key aspects of practice and in some cases policies related to transitions to facilitate a smooth start
  • You will break down key actions that you and your colleagues will take to enact orientations and transitions working together towards consistency and choreographing each role.

 

Recommended Audience: Educators, teachers, educational leaders, Service Managers and Directors, Area Managers, various roles in central offices that oversee enrolments 

    • $180

    • Date

      Tue 17 November – Tue 24 November
      • Session 1: What creates a smooth start to transitioning into Group Care?
        17 November 2026
        6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
      • Session 2: Strategic and collective work as a team to support a smooth start: Putting the plan into place
        24 November 2026
        6:30 PM – 8:00 PM

    • Location

      Online via Zoom

    • Presented by

      • Dr Katherine Bussey
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About the presenters

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    Dr Katherine Bussey

    Dr Katherine Bussey, is a passionate infant, toddler and early childhood specialist and advocate originally from New Zealand living in Melbourne working as a Research Fellow. She has spent the last 18 years actively learning about, and developing practice in, NZ and Australian early childhood education based on the Pikler® approach and Magda Gerber’s Educaring Approach (RIE®). She is currently working on the process of becoming a Pikler pedagogue, and is the chairperson of ITANA. Katherine mentors and provides professional learning and development for educators, engaging in inspiring critical reflection, learning and growth in infant, toddler and early childhood teams.