Organisational 3a coaching

Organisations that have invested in 3a training and coaching are provided dedicated support to assist them to design and implement an evidence-informed plan to effectively support 3a practitioners and coaches in their organisation to plan for and implement enriched caregiving strategies, conversational reading strategies and Learning Games with fidelity into their educational programs following training.

What you will learn

Gain contemporary skills and knowledge to adopt and embed an evidence-informed approach to implementing 3a across their organisation.

Research has shown that the positive impact of early childhood education lies in the nature, quality and consistency of interactions between educators, and/or carers, and children.

The Abecedarian Approach Australia (3a) is a set of practical, evidence-based teaching strategies that enhance the quality of interactions with young children and support child development and learning. It is proven to have a positive impact on child, educator and family outcomes, with lasting change in children’s lives both before and after they start school.

Research has further shown that children’s learning is advanced when the 3a teaching strategies are implemented frequently and with fidelity. In turn, effective implementation of 3a strategies is enhanced when educators are supported by regular coaching. Coaches, in turn, build confidence, knowledge and skills to support colleagues’ implementation of evidence-informed strategies when they are offered specialist support. Further, threshold conditions are key to the effective

These coaching sessions are for organisations that have invested in 3a training and coaching to effectively embed an evidence informed approach to implementing the 3a strategies into their educational programs so to advance young children’s learning outcomes

Organisations can work with 3a specialists to develop an evidence-informed approach to embedding and sustaining

The coaching sessions will support 3a organisations to effectively:

  • Align the 3a teaching strategies to their vision, philosophy and community
  • Design threshold conditions that enable organisations to embed 3a with fidelity
  • Use national, local and organisational data to design a robust and sustained approach to fidelity of 3a implementation across the organisation
  • Develop to track and monitor the impact of implementation of 3a strategies for educators, children and families