1. Save time and reduce workloads
TPRO is designed to reduce the workloads associated with managing professional records, for both managers and staff. Essentially TPRO enables managers and staff to manage these records more efficiently. There are also savings in resources because an ECE service does not need to set-up, maintain and upgrade TPRO on its own computers. Trend Technologies manages TPRO centrally, and therefore assumes responsibility for these tasks, as well as providing training and support, and data backup.
2. Reliable, secure, confidential and easy to use
TPRO is a reliable, secure and confidential system which allows authorised users to record information directly into the database (e.g. via laptops). It enables easy recording of data which managers and staff currently include in their professional records.
3. Facilitate compliance with Teachers Council, Ministry of Education and Education Review Office requirements
TPRO is designed to facilitate compliance with Teachers Council and Ministry of Education requirements and as such, enhance ECE educators' ability to demonstrate to external auditors their ECE service's compliance with these requirements. For example, a manager needing to approve the registration of a provisionally registered teacher who has taught in more than one ECE service, will (with the teacher's written permission) be able to check the teacher's records from previous ECE services in order to ensure registration requirements have been met (providing that the teacher is a current TPRO member).
4. Flexibility
TPRO has a degree of flexibility in the way in which it is implemented for an ECE service. For example, a manager may wish to delegate some of the responsibility for the system to the Team Leaders and Supervisors, and the access permissions can be organised accordingly. A further example: TPRO allows customised (i.e. non-standard) information to be created which is relevant to the particular ECE service.
5. Manage professional development records more effectively to support staff professional development
During discussions with ECE educators prior to the development of TPRO, many expressed a desire to manage their professional records more efficiently, so that they could monitor registration and professional development processes more readily, support the professional development of teachers more effectively (i.e. as individuals, as teams, as a staff), and thereby enhance the development and learning of the children in their care. TPRO is a tool to support managers and staff members in recording professional development processes i.e. the planning, analysis, evaluation and reporting of professional development.
6. Off site storage
An important advantage of using TPRO is that an ECE service has its staff professional records stored in a secure manner off site so that, in the event of fire or theft at the ECE service, the records are still available.
7. Save ECE services the cost of developing their own individual electronic systems
The use of TPRO will save ECE services the expense of developing and maintaining their own electronic systems for managing staff professional records.