• Leadership; principles & practice • Leadership; roles and responsibilities • Building a team o Listening for the voice of the child in practice o Communication within teams o Dealing with uncertainty and unpredictability o Deconstructing and co-constructing approaches to practice o Leading for continuous quality improvement o Leading for team wellbeing • Leading, supporting and empowering the Key Worker • Leadership and reflective practice

• Leading the educational implementation of Aistear, Siolta in the context of First 5. • Leading curriculum development • Co-constructing democratic practices through agreed practice and documentation • Building a strategic approach to the use of supporting learning techniques • Leadership and the development and implementation of policies, procedures and practices • Leading children and families through transitions • Leading for reflective practice

• Educational leadership and support of families experiencing poverty, homelessness, drug use, the prison service and those asylum seeking and refugees • Listening to and coming to an understanding of the culture and challenges of families in challenging situations in the content of supporting learning and advocating for them.

Forming and supporting communities of practice • Developing co-professional dialogue • Leading the team in a multi-agency context o the role of communication, report writing and shared responsibility

• New directions in leadership and early childhood services o Distributed leadership o ‘Room’ leadership • Considering differing types of early childhood provision: o Private o Community o Attached to schools o Hospital

• Analyse the interrelationship of issues presented in other modules in relation to Leadership and Ethical Practice, Emerging Issues in Early Childhood practice, Supervision and Mentorship and Regulation and Inspection.