2016 Speaker Presentations

Presentation notes from the concurrent workshops are now available for download. Click on the workshop title to access a pdf copy.

Professor Frank Oberklaid – The building blocks of a successful and prosperous society

Julie Cross – Revealing the Possibilities

Chris Daicos

• Dealing with difficult adult behaviors
• How to talk so kids will listen and listen so kids will talk

LeRoy Hand and Carmel Zeidan –

• Let’s Cook! Discovering together, the potential for endless learning
• Click here to access the recipes

Caroline Fewster – Routines and Transitions: 50 practical ways to inspire children’s learning

Dr Kaylene Henderson

• Raising Resilient Centres: How attachment theory informs effective leadership
• Attachment. What children need and why you matter

Sue Southey – Creating Scientists. Capitalise on children’s natural curiosity to investigate and discover by using scientific ways of working

Dr Deborah Harcourt – Exploring the principles of Reggio Emilia

Allan Preiss – Finders Keepers: Recruitment and retention of staff

Jillian Ballantyne – Something is not quite right: Concerns about a child who is undiagnosed but not achieving developmental norms

Gwen Rayner – Reveal the possibilities of just one nursery rhyme: Pussycat Pussycat where have you been?

Rhonda Livingstone – Assessment and Rating Challenges: Practical Strategies for Approved Providers