My name is Rachel Rooke and I have been working in the early years sector since 2000. I have worked in a range of settings after graduating from Macquarie University in 2002. I established RARE because I am passionate about supporting educators to achieve success through meaningful an individual approaches to their operations that support outcomes for children.
During my time working in schools in England as a casual teacher for 12 months I developed a great understanding of behaviour guidance and how to connect with specific children’s needs.
I have the following Qualifications:
- Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood Education)(4yr) – 2002
- Advanced Diploma of Community Service Management – 2014
- Certificate IV in Training and Assessment – 2013 (Including all additional units added on since)
- Master of Educational Leadership (Early Childhood) – 2021 (Graham Hermann Memorial Prize winner 2020)
- Certificate IV in WHS – 2021
I have had many challenging roles and have enjoyed thinking of affordable, innovative ways to work around the challenges and provide high quality care for the children. In addition to working in services I have experience working with training organisations as a trainer, workplace assessor and validator.
I have experience in a range of service operational areas including:
- Program development
- Self Assessment Tool development
- Team building
- Training
- WHS processes
- Assessment and Ratings process
- Change management
- Service development
- Conference presentations
- Action research
- Process development to ensure all aspects of the NQF are reflected in the service