5 New Modules Added to the FDCA Learning Hub

As part of our ongoing commitment to delivering high quality, contemporary professional development resources for members, we're excited to announce the addition of 5 new modules to the FDCA Learning Hub.

The addition of these new modules means that your FDCA membership includes access to over 45 professional learning modules at no extra cost!

Available through your FDCA Member Zone and backed by one of Australia’s most respected early childhood professional development and advocacy organisations, Early Childhood Australia, the FDCA Learning Hub offers members professional development opportunities that can be accessed anywhere at anytime.

What new modules can I access?

The 5 new modules that are now available with your FDCA membership include:

• Dealing with stress, pressure and burnout in education settings
• Duty of care: Work health and safety in education and care
• Emotion Coaching: A transformational tool
• Privacy awareness in children’s services
• Taking notice: Taking care

Module Spotlights

Two of the new modules that you can access include Emotion Coaching: A transformational tool and Taking notice: Taking care.

Read below for an insight into the professional development opportunities each of these modules will provide for FDCA members.

This module discusses effective ways of guiding children with big feelings and behaviours. It explores the five steps of Emotion Coaching - emotional awareness, connecting, listening, naming emotions and finding good solutions, and explains how these can be used by early childhood professionals to build trusting and respectful relationships with children.

This module will help you: 

• Understand the steps and approaches to Emotion Coaching
• Draw on and use Emotion Coaching techniques in various situations
• Assist children in identifying and naming their emotions
• Support children’s self-regulation skills so they can solve problems and find good solutions
• Turn moments of negative behaviour into teaching opportunities

We experience stress - both positive and negative - through all of our senses. Our response to this stress is usually demonstrated through our behaviour, thoughts and feelings. It is therefore important to manage stressors to be able to maintain optimal energy levels and a state of calm.

This module will teach you how to listen to your mind, body and senses; identify and address stressors; and support your overall wellbeing.

This module will help you: 

• Identify stressors in your life and consider ways to reduce or remove them
• Recognise factors that influence how you experience positive wellbeing and moments of calm
• Plan ways to regularly take notice and take care of your wellbeing

Accessing the FDCA Learning Hub

As an FDCA member, you can access these 5 brand-new modules through your FDCA Member Zone.

Simply log in and navigate to the “Learning Hub” sub-heading, where you’ll be taken to the Learning Hub home page.

What if I haven’t activated my FDCA Member Zone?

To activate your online account:

1. Click here to activate your free account (for the best experience, use the latest Chrome browser)
2. Enter your registered email address
3. An email will then be sent to your email address; click on the 'create password' button
4. Create and confirm your password
5. Click here to login and enter your FDCA Member Zone.

We’re proud to be able to support our members in helping them achieve their career goals with the FDCA Learning Hub and thank our colleagues at Early Childhood Australia for their support of our sector as an invaluable part of the early childhood education and care landscape.