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=Welcome= 12/7/10 Hello, everyone should have received an invitation for graduation, please call Bestchance if you have not received one. 31/5/10 Hello Graduation is planned for the 15th of July from 6:30pm, it has not been confirmed so I will post here as soon as we know for sure. Bestchance are going to have the opening night for the new training building and graduation together, the builders will give a date over the next week or so, so stay posted.

Cheers Jodi 7/5/10 Hello Thankyou for attending on Tuesday night. For those who still have assessments to hand in remember I am only a phone call or a wiki away. I look forward to hearing from you all and about your new adventures and challanges. Take Care Jodi 3/5/10 Hello I look forward to seeing you all on Tuesday the 4th of May at 7pm, we will finish about 9pm depending on individual need and support required. If you would like to bring a plate to share you can, see you at 7pm. Cheers Jodi 23/4/10 Hi please let me know if Tuesday the 4th at 7pm is a good time to have the work group get together? I am so happy for everyone and enspired by your workplace contributions. This week I have been out visiting you at your workplace, I have had such complementing discussions with supervisors such as "I rely on her", "They give me so many ideas", "I want her to work here", "I really do recomend her for working in the profession" "She just knows what to do" "They really care" and a comment from me " They really are the Children's Friend, who's eyes lighten up at the thought of play". Thankyou Jodi 21/4/10 Hello I need to change our meeting date from Thursday the 29th to Tuesday the 4th of May. We will start at 7pm until 9pm or as needed. Please remember if you want to hand work in you can do this prior by giving it to me on centre visits or by dropping assessments into Best Chance. Please call or email if you need any help. Cheers Jodi Hello The assessment for CHCCN3C and powerpoint is uploaded for you to print, please bring it to class with your certificate of competion/assessment for online workshop and your dot points taken. Good news I past the test go online learning I got 93 per cent! lol Can you all PLEASE ENSURE YOU PRINT OF YOUR CERTIFICATES AND HAND THEM INTO ME, MAKE A COPY IF YOU WOULD LIKE 2 KEEP ONE. Mine is displayed on my fridge, did the milk carton get any body else, I just did not get that one? Cheers 1/4/10 Hello Debbie has brought to my attention that the online workshop with the link below may not be completed by everyone. This a required participation activity to be carried out prior to attending class on the 10th. Please call or email me if you have any problems well prior to next Saturday. []Opps what would I do without you...try this link, sorry, thanks Debbie... Have a great easter. 30/3/10 Hello hello please vistit the following website and carryout the tasks prior to attending CHCCN3C, brillant website you will learn so much, a fantastic site for inhouse training that can be shared within your workplace. [|www.dofoodsafely.health.vic.gov.au] It is most important that you document down what you have learnt from the online workshop, just in the way of dot points and what food prepartion and handling task you will do differently and why after participating in the online workshop. Have fun fun fun and stay clean and safe over easter break. Cheers Jodi 29/3/10 Hello, I hope you all have a great easter and I will see you all on the 10/3/10 9amm-4pm please check this sight in the coming day as I will post the website for you to visit prior to class. Debbie and Amy can you please wiki me your email so I can send photos wiki will not let me send them or post due to file being to big. Cheers 16/3/10 Hello Sorry about Tuesday night and thankyou for all your support and care. I am not able to attend the excursion Thursday night. If you are able to attend please do and we can share the experience on Saturday as the workshop will go ahead at this stage. Please check Friday for confirmation. Saturday will be great as their is a cultrual celebration event at Best Chance as well Please wiki or call if you have any questions. 14/3/10 Hello, Great News! We are all off on an adventure to FKA (Free Kindergarten Association) for their Wine and Cheese Evening, I have given you a copy of the details last week in class. The handout I gave everyone has all the details, address, time, and what will be available and offered on the night. We will be meeting at FKA on the 18th of March at 5:50pm out the front, please call me on the mobile if you are lost or running late, so I can come out and meet you. The evening will come to a close at 9pm so an early finsh this night. (Keep in mind parking may be difficult to find so try to get there with 10 or so min up your sleve. More Good News! Sussan from Randstad will be visiting us to share knowledge and skills on applying for positions, interviews, cover letters, Resumes and discussing different employment opportunities in your profession. Sussan will be visiting us on the 23rd of March from 6:45am to 7:15pm so if you can please try to be on time for this evening. More Good News! YOU are all almost completed your workshop attendance, and are all working so hard to complete your assessments to Finsh your competencey journey through Cert III in Childrens Services! It's so exciting, you are an amazing group, see you all on Tuesday. Cheers Jodi 9/3/10 Hello Tuesday night we will be contining on with CHCORG3B, pleaase remember to bring your powerpoint presentations and assessments. 4/3/10 Hello Please make sure you print of powerpoint presentations and assessments from wiki and bring to class with you. We will be starting CHCORG3B and CHCOHC301a this Thursday night and as discussed in class Saturdays workshop will be going ahead from 9am -4pm. Please visit the following website: http://www.graduatecareers.com.au/content/view/full/2798 Re Job applications and Resume writting as this will be a topic discussed in CHCORG3B. I have also placed CHCCS301A Assessment up for Saturday. Please visit Useful Websites on wikki and ensure you access the following sites in regards to OHS. [] []

Regards Jodi 16/2/09 Hi, please find the power point presentation for tonights class under Readings for the unit CHCRF1C and the Assessment for the unit under Assessment Tasks. Please remember to bring your research articles from last week as we will continue to relate the issues within your new unit that starts tonight, CHCRF1C. Please check the changes to the timetable by clicking on Important Dates, please see me if you have any concerns as the changes were made in collaboration with the group needs in mind. Cheers Jodi 11/2/10 Hello the workshop for Saturday has been canceled as discussed in class due to small attendance. We will be in the portable this evening behind the building please call me if you have trouble locating it, I will have my mobile on. I have read through the discussion boards and you have all really expanded my thinking processes in regards to the current factors contributing to risk and harm of children/youth and families! We will read through some articles tonight and discuss media, theory and society in more detail, bring along your philosophy hats. Next Tuesday will be the start of a new unit - Work effectively with families, Sherrin the Training Manager at Best Chance will be participating within next Thursdays workshop which will be a great opportunity for you to meet with her and ask any questions you may have about continuing studies and opportunities available through Best Chance in regards to Diploma and in-services. Cheers Jodi 8/2/10 Hi Please come to class on Tuesday night with some ideas to fill our protective behaviour suitcase. Remember to see me if you feel that you will not have all assessments completed by April. Also of importance is that you give dates for centre visits ASAP, I would like theese to take place prior to the 22nd of Feb. We will have a worksop this Saturday 9am - 4pm. Participate in the workplace and Participate in workplace saftey procedures. Looking forward to Tuesday evening Jodi 27/1/10 Hello Happy Australia Day,

Oh, oh, oh, ahh, nothing on the discussion board? oh oh but I am looking forward to reading your thoughts and views. ...?Ok now for Thursday night this week we will be going through the reporting processes and looking into contributing factors that put children at risk while touching on the long and short term side effects. Please visit important datespage as I have posted a new timetalbe for us to collaborate further on Thursday night. Could you please email me perferred visit dates and time asap. Very important information posted on placement date page, please ensure you follow up Cheers and best wishes Jodi 20/1/10 Welcome back Please visit the following websites, [] [] Please read through the documents. Please visit wiki discussion board to contribute to issues that may have an impact towards child abuse in our s ociety. Please ensure you review:Types of abuse, and understand the indicators both behavioural and phisical aspects for eah type of a abuse. Review common terms such as "risk" "Harm" "direct" "indirect" and "inaction" and Please read over the grooming steps. Thursday the 21st we will be vieing the video; Identifying and responding to children and young people at risk of harm and looking reflecting topics discussed on Tuesday the 19th. 17/12/09 Hi everyone, Julie said you were a pleasure and so knowledgable? Next class will be on Jan the 19th, the unit will be chcchild3a. Please feel free to discuss training over the christmas break. Hi everyone, 4/11/09 Wow wow, class on Thursday night was a fantastic display of how play spaces can enhance continual learning oportunites for children and how they can create relevance to their context and develope such meaning, belonging, being and becoming with out over using theese words but I feel that Amanda's resources and planning really delivered the above for us all to experience. Thank you Amanda for sharing your knowledge and love for play base learning. We will continue with our photo stories on Tuesaday, remember they will contribute to your assessment, Please feel free to bring in more play space idea's. Story Telling, meditaions and relaxation for children shall also be experienced this coming tuesday so bring a cushion and a blanket if you wish. PLEASE REMEMBER THEIR WILL BE NO CLASS ON THURSDAY THE 10TH. I will arrange activities on wiki for eveyone to participate in. Cheers Jodi :)

18/11/09 It was a great opportunity to visit the Best Chance Children's Service last week and relate the environment and practices to the therioes and practices discussed and represented in class and most importantly in the profession. The role plays presented last night showed that you have a great understanding of the theories in practice and I was impressed with you ability to combine and present reasoning for the approaches taken and represented.
 * I will use this page each week to give feedback.**

Please take some time to view and reflect on the photo story representing your role plays of theory, you will find this photo story under Readings 171109.

P.S look under Workshop Tasks, I have posted an article re gender bias and identity that I found today, please allso visit discussion board for further discussions on theese topics. Have an enjoyable weekend

Jodi

1/11/09 Everyone worked so hard last Thursday evening, cooking and exploring with creative activities. I have created a photo story reflective of all this hard work and energy that we will view this Thursday in class. Remember to bring along your presentations if you have not presented it yet for CHCCN2C, Care for Children. Please ensure your presentations are no longer then 10 min. Please remember to respond to discussion boards on wiki (Infectious diseases) it has no responses yet, first one in get's ......... an extra couple of cm on their shoulders! Please see the Power point presentations for CHCFC1C under Readings. I will be visiting, Gwenda, Amy and Debbie on Wednesday morning and Gunjan in the afternoon, everyone else I look forward to seeing you on Thursday, remember no night class on Tuesday the 3rd of November due to Cup Day being a Public Holiday. Please re visit Useful Websites page, I have placed some more sites on the page relevant to Support the development of children in the service.

28/10/09 Hello, Hello Wow what a great week I have had visiting you in your centres, what great practices and amazing children I observed. I look forward to more centre visits later this week and next week. I will see you all on Thursday the 29th for the start of CHCFC1C. Please look at support the development activies, powerpoint for an idea of what we are going to get up to, you will find this under Readings. Take Care

23/10/09 Hi The presentations were very informative well done, great resources and how great are you all at sharing knowledge and gaining active participation. Please visit the following website for Resources on working with trumatised children; [], some further refrences at the back of the publication worth researching as well. Remember the 24th of October is Saturday workshop, 9am-4pm CHCCN1D and CHCCN4D, you will find the assessment outline under Assessment Tasks, both assessments are under (Ensure childrens). I look forward to seeing you all then. Have Fun 8/10/09 Hello I would like you all to visit the following website over the comming weeks, it is a great resource for food handling, preperation and governing bodies.http://www.health.vic.gov.au/foodsafety/pubs.htm 1/10/09 Hello Wow the two weeks holidays have gone so fast! Tuesday the 6th of October will be our first workshop on Care for Children. The power point presentation and assessment have been posted on wikki, see readings for Power point presentation and AssessmentTasksfor assment requirments for this unit. I look forward to seeing you all on Tuesday night. Kind Regards Jodi 13/9/09 Hi I hope all had a good weekend. I have posted CHCCN5C **Questions and Answers** **assessment** on wiki under Assessment Task. I will also hand this out in class on the 15th of September. Remember assessments are all about the processes, knowledge and skills built upon over a period of time. Assessment do not need to be handed in straight after the last workshop within the unit being studied. Take time to revisit and build upon this knowledge with in the workplace. Investigate it, relate to it, research it, have fun with it, discuss your findings and research with others, collaborate, build resources, reflect and modifiy knowledge and implementations. Visit relevant professionals, become more familiar with relevant resouces, agencies, policies, procedures and last but not least relate all topics to the Regs, ACTs and Accreditation. See you all Tuesday night. 11/9/09 Hi everyone Wow what an active workshop we had last night. It was great to see the implementation of correct procedure for handwashing, nappy changing and bottle prepartion. In class some students have been asking about what and how to set up their resource folder. I have documented some more written guidance for you all and you will find this under Readings. Please remember to bring in notes on Ainsworth and Bowlby for your class presentation on Tuesday night, some can be done on Thursday so don't panic if you don't get time. CHCPR3C assessments that have been handed in so far have been fantastic and highlights what professionals we have amoungst us. CHCIC1C Contribution assessments have been such a joy to read, I really recomend that everyone posts them on Wiki for all to share. Everyone should know now when their centre visits are taking place and the process involved. Have a great weekend

10/9/09 Hello Thankyou Amanda for bringing your baby doll and sharing wrapping skills with us all. It was great to see everyone have ago at making nappies and at making a cot and placing a baby doll to bed following the SIDS recomendations. I have been confirming workplace visit dates and times this week. If I have not been able to contact you by phone please ensure you see me prior to class to confirm centre visit date and time. 4/9/09 Hello Everyone, I hope all is feeling well and healthy. For the first two sessions of CHCCN5C we have had low student attendance due to illness. If you have missed a session please do the following if you have not done it. Please bring you egg baby or paper baby to class with dot points on it's development and growth for 2 weeks old and 3 weeks old. We will also discuss your findings on attachment theories. Have a good weekend.
 * Go through power point presentation- Go to ReadingsDraw a two week old baby or make an egg baby. Give it an identity- Each week dot point your babies growth and developmet. (Just a few each week)
 * Look back at Maslow's Hierarchy of basic needs-Relate to infants and how you meet the physical and emotional needs.
 * Look into Attachment theories- Google Bowlby and Ainsworth
 * Read Ericksons Eight stage of development- Focus on the first 3 stages- Think of what you do to develop trust with infants?

27/8/09 Hi everyone, CHCCN5C Care for Babies will start This Tues the 1st of September. Due to me being away sick on Thursday the 27th of August. My apologies and thank you for your understanding.

23/8/09 If you miss a class please make sure you catch up by arranging with me a suitable time catch up or getting notes off another student. This is the individual students responsibility to arrange.

22/8/09 Hello What an interesting, in depth and intensive unit CHCPR3C has been. The groups comments and participation has extended everyone's knowledge and skills to no end. The quality of documentation and the interpretation of the information at hand has been outstanding. I hope you are enjoying the implementation of these skills within your workplaces. Remember it's a learning process. Imagine If you were to write your own (learning story) about what you have learned during your inquiry into this topic. How amazed would you be?

14/8/09 CHCPR3C Everyone has shown amazing skills at observing, documenting and interpreting anecdotal observations just within the first two sessions. If you have not handed in your assessments for ChCIC1C please ensure you come and see me 10 min prior to class starting on Tuesday to ensure you are on track.

6/8/09 CHCIC1C Your ability to research and present an argument was most apparent on tuesday night with the nature vs nurture deabate. Well done everyone you really knew your topic.

Everyone has been contributing in class and thankyou so much to everyone who is bringing in resources and knowledge to share!

I have been reading through some of the rules and limits and I would like to remind everyone to keep them positive, remember do's always win over don'ts :) Remember within the rules and limits we want to give the instruction of the desired behaviour. eg. We walk inside See Class photos from this unit under- Class Photos