Donna Field

Donna Field

Donna Field has been working in the children's services industry for over 20 years. Donna has worked in many service types for both local government and community-based managing small mobile preschools, long day care services and OOSH services with a specialty for managing budgets. Currently, Donna shares her time teaching at TAFE and delivering mobile training.

Donna started with an Associate Diploma in Social Science (child studies) many years later completing her Bachelor of Education (EC) at University of New England and Certificate IV in Training and Assessment (including LLN). Donna has continued to keep up to date through ongoing professional development as well as training including contract work under North Sydney TAFE for Premier and Cabinet of the NSW Governments Keep Them Safe five year project. Donna facilitated many of the initial information sessions in 2009 and continued in 2010 to deliver the Early Childhood and Non-Government sessions.

Donna specialises in teaching child protection and partnerships with families along with managing and supported OOSH Diploma students through their units. Donna also managed groups such as Diploma flexible delivery, Diploma trainees, and Certificate 3 on the job trainees. Donna advocates for students who have worked in the industry as quality educators by assessing for recognition of prior learning (RPL). This has also involved completing assessment in group Recognition of Prior learning.

Donna has written and reviewed TAFE CHC08 and CHC113 Community Services (Children's Services) Training Package learner guides and learner resource material specifically for OTEN TAFE and was the winner of a Teacher in Excellence award for TAFE NSW Western Sydney Institute- Staff recognition awards in 2008 and again in 2014.

Donna strongly believes in equity for all students and strives to ensure all her students receive support to allow them to complete their studies in a positive and encouraging environment. Donna is one of the Director's of Because it Matters P/L.

Website URL: http://https://www.becauseitmatters.com.au

This document is part of the Early Years Learning Framework Practice Based Resources-Developmental Milestones. Educators need to be aware of what age and stages children develop if they are to notice and support the child individually. If infants or children are not progressing through in a manner consistent with their individual needs it is imperative that educators are aware and provide ongoing nurturing and support in collaboration with families.

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Educators Guide- My Time, Our Place

Published in Family Day Care

My Time, Our Place has its own Educators Guide. This guide will assist you with ways to record information, reflecting on your program and using a pedagogical approach.

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Early Years Learning Framework

Published in Family Day Care

The Early Years Learning Framework is part of the Council of Australian Government’s (COAG) reform agenda for early childhood education and care and is a key component of the Australian Government’s National Quality Framework for early childhood education and care. It underpins universal access to early childhood education and will be incorporated in the National Quality Standard in order to ensure delivery of nationally consistent and quality early childhood education across sectors and jurisdictions. 

 

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Educators Guide- Early Years Learning Framework

Published in Preschool

The Educators Belonging, Being & Becoming: Educators’ Guide to the Early Years Learning Framework for Australia is intended to support curriculum decision making to extend and enrich children’s learning. The Guide is designed to be used in interactive ways to promote in-depth conversations and thinking  over a sustained period about the concepts which build the Early Years Learning Framework.

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Connections

Published in QA2

Connections a resource for early childhood educators about children’s wellbeing- a great resource to assist educators in all areas regarding children’s mental health and wellbeing. If you are a long day care, preschool, family day care or a school age care service you should have received this book. If not click here to download from the Everymind website.

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MRG & eReporting through Child Story

Published in News

Family and Community Services have introduced a new place where the Mandatory Reporter Guide (MRG) with the eRporting tool can be found. If you currently go to the Keep Them Safe site it will redirect you to reporter.childstory. The advantage of this new site is after you have completed the MRG the outcome if not 'Immediate Report' will allow you, if you choose, to click onto the eReporting tool to process your report straight to the helpline. The eReporting can be used when your concerns for risk of significant harm are not an 'Immediate Report' as decided by the Mandatory Reporter Guide on the Keep them Safe site. Click eReporting  to enter the site where an online course to learn how to use the system is available from FaCS. Remember it must not be used for urgent immediate reports.

BiM has also completed a short 15min You Tube video of how to use the new site and eReporting tool. We will be providing more updates on this and the new resources available on Child Story in the coming weeks.

 

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