Internal Evaluation & Professional Growth Topics

Create a stronger connection between your service’s internal evaluation, professional learning and Professional Growth Cycle (PGC).

This practical ECE resource supports Centre Owners and Managers to identify a service-wide area for improvement and use this as a shared focus for teachers’ individual Professional Growth Cycle inquiries.

Rather than every teacher investigating a completely different topic, a shared improvement focus gives your team a common direction while still allowing each kaiako to explore what the topic means for their own teaching practice and the children they work with.

This resource will help you:

• identify an appropriate service-wide area for improvement
• develop an Internal Evaluation Question to guide your service’s evaluation
• support kaiako to develop an individual PGC Inquiry Question aligned with the service’s improvement focus
• create stronger links between internal evaluation, professional learning and teacher inquiry
• support shared professional discussion, reflection and learning across your teaching team

Practical ECE examples included

See how ERO improvement actions can be developed into Internal Evaluation Questions and individual Teacher PGC Inquiry Questions, with examples covering:

• culturally responsive pedagogy
• intentional teaching and learning progress
• Professional Growth Cycle and professional development

The resource also addresses what to consider when a teacher feels the service-wide topic isn’t relevant to the children they work with, and demonstrates how broad improvement areas can be explored within different teaching contexts.

Specifically developed for ECE services in Aotearoa New Zealand.