Quality Through Professionalisation
Maura McMahon, Simone Jones & Mareesa O’Dwyer
Quality Through Professionalisation
• Vision: all staff are fully competent to apply
and to integrate the National Frameworks
of Síolta and Aistear within the HighScope
curriculum
• Manual challenges staff to integrate the
frameworks through daily curriculum
planning and evaluation
• Structured planning encourages reflective
evaluation
Mary Daly, Ann Louise Gilligan and
Katherine Zappone
• Quality mentors support work‐based
learning
Additional Needs Module
Case Studies
• Child Protection
• Intellectual Disability
• Physical Disability
Adapting the Curriculum
to Meet a Child’s Needs
External Supports for the
Child & Family
2013: Train the Trainer
EYE’s Training
Development plan in practice
• What we did
• How it helped
• Challenges
Overview of research methodology
Research Framework
RE-AIM (Glasgow et al. 1999)
Research design
(1) Cross-sectional
(2) Process evaluation
Tools
Preschool Quality Assessment (PQA)
Interviews
Direct observation
Focus groups
Reflective logs
Data analysis
Process evaluation:
Thematic review
PQA:
Descriptive statistics
Cross-tabulations
Correlations
RE-AIM Framework
(Glasgow et al. 1999)
Reach
Effectiveness
Adoption
Implementation
Maintenance
Timeline of evaluation
Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption
Adoption
Implementation,
Maintenance
Adoption,
Maintenance
April ‘14
May ‘14
June ‘14
June ‘14
June ‘14
Direct
Observation
Training
Cohort 1
Direct
Observation
Training
Cohort 2
Interviews
(Trainers and
co-ordinator)
Focus groups
(Educators)
Preschool
Quality
Assessments
(Preschools)
Programme
Delivery
(Jan-May 14)
Post-Programme
Delivery
Consortium:
Quality Through Professionalisation
Consortium:
Quality Through Professionalisation
Additional Outcomes