Quality Through Professionalisation

Maura McMahon, Simone Jones & Mareesa O’Dwyer

Quality Through Professionalisation

• Vision: all staff are fully competent to apply and to integrate the National Frameworks of Síolta and Aistear within the HighScope curriculum

• Manual challenges staff to integrate the frameworks through daily curriculum planning and evaluation

• Structured planning encourages reflective evaluation

• Quality mentors support work based ‐learning

Mary Daly, Ann Louise Gilligan and Katherine Zappone

Additional Needs ModuleCase Studies• Child Protection• Intellectual Disability• Physical Disability

Adapting the Curriculum to Meet a Child’s Needs

External Supports for the Child & Family

2013: Train the Trainer

EYE’s Training

Development plan in practice

• What we did

• How it helped

• Challenges

Overview of research methodology

Research Framework RE-AIM (Glasgow et al. 1999)

Research design (1) Cross-sectional(2) Process evaluation

Tools Preschool Quality Assessment (PQA)InterviewsDirect observationFocus groupsReflective logs

Data analysis Process evaluation:Thematic review

PQA:Descriptive statisticsCross-tabulationsCorrelations

RE-AIM Framework (Glasgow et al. 1999)

Reach

Effectiveness

Adoption

Implementation

Maintenance

Timeline of evaluation

Direct Observation

Training Cohort 1

Direct Observation

Training Cohort 2

Interviews(Trainers and co-ordinator)

Focus groups (Educators)

Programme Delivery

(Jan-May 14)

Preschool Quality

Assessments (Preschools)

April ‘14 May ‘14 June ‘14 June ‘14 June ‘14

Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption Adoption Implementation,Maintenance

Adoption,Maintenance

Post-Programme Delivery

Consortium: Quality Through Professionalisation

Consortium: Quality Through Professionalisation

August 2014

Additional Outcomes