In addition to our training events, Galway Childcare Committee are offering a free online resource guide and e-learning course to professionals working in or studying early childhood care and education.

Galway Atlantaquaria and Galway Childcare Committee would like to share some ideas and knowledge to prepare and inspire you to explore your local shores or woodland areas with the young children in your setting.

Exploring the Shores Early Years Resource Guide is an ideal introduction to the concept of Beach School for young children and we would recommend that educators would use this resource as a guide before, during and after the e-learning programme. This guide will equip educators with useful and practical information about the beaches in Galway city and county and key safety considerations when planning a day at the beach.

	Exploring the Shores Early Years Resource Guide Download

Galway Childcare Committee in collaboration with Galway Atlantaquaria are offering this free unique e-learning programme Introduction to Ocean Literacy which has been specifically designed for early years educators and school age practitioners working with young children.

The information, resources and ideas for practice that Dr. Nóirín Burke shares throughout this programme will inspire how you think about the ocean. However, it is up to you as the early years’ educator and your knowledge of the children’s interests and dispositions for learning to determine how this programme can be translated into practice. The activities can become learning experiences in children’s play and in their conversations.

Enjoy researching and learning together with the children.

Ocean Connections Welcome to the 7 Ocean Literacy Principles eLearning programme for Early Years Settings. Start Course

Better Start Quality Development Service:

Better Start the Quality Development Service provides mentoring and coaching to Early Learning and Care settings, based on the Síolta and Aistear frameworks and Tusla’s Quality and Regulatory Framework (QRF), so that those settings are of high quality and deliver positive outcomes for children.
A range of training courses including online courses are signposted here Training Archives - Better Start
 


Barnardos e-learning courses

In addition to public training events and tailored events, Barnardos offers some free elearning courses and webinar recordings for professionals working in or studying early childhood care and education. Barnardos E-Learning: Empowering Childcare Professionals - Barnardos
Find out more about upcoming live webinars
Contact training@barnardos.ie for more information on Barnardos training courses. 

 
Quality in Early Years Education webinars from Department of Education
A series of webinars was developed by the Department of Education Early Years inspectorate and is designed to show findings, ideas and examples of effective practice drawn from the diverse range of ELC settings inspected since 2010.
 
gov.ie - Insights – Quality in Early Years Education webinars click on the links below to access.      
 
1. Introduction
2. Insights – Transitions
3. Insights – Developing Children's Physical Skills
4. Insights – Assessment
5. Insights – Early Years Education Inspection
6. Insights – Focus on Self-evaluation
7. Insights – Developing Children's Literacy Skills
8. Insights – Effective Outdoor Learning Environment
9. Insights – Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
10. Insights – Responding to Early Years Education Inspection Report
11. Insights – Transitions to primary school 2021: a focus on learning from COVID-19 experiences
12. Insights – Promoting Children's Resilience
13. Insights – Working with mixed-age groups of children
14. Insights – Partnership with Parents
15. Insights – Follow-through Early Years Education Inspection
16. Insights – Learning through child-initiated/child-led play
17. Insights – Numeracy and Mathematical Development in Early Years