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The OECE is a national organisation for the ECE sector and public adviser, championing high-quality education and care for every child
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- Actively contributes to sector analysis, research, and policy development
- Advances evidence-based best practices that prioritise children’s interests and wellbeing
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CV Writing and Making a Good Job Application
Applying for an Early Childhood Job.
Having a great application is important for getting the job you want.
Your initial application may be the only chance you get to impress your potential employer, especially if they do not interview every single person who applies. This means you cannot leave things out of your application assuming you w
Making Signs as Part of Play
Making signs enriches play and learning.
All around us are signs – what ones can you see?
Signs can be used to tell us what to do like “stop” and “give way” on the road.
They can be used to let us know about dangers (e.g. “wet floor”) and to make announcements (e.g. “cooking at 2pm today”).
Signs can also be used to labe
Child E-Portfolios
E-Portfolios in Early Childhood Education. By Julia Button.
This article describes and discusses the use and place of e-portfolios in early childhood education. Considerations for using e-portfolios and limitations are outlined. A special section looks at the involvement and contribution of families and others to children’s e-portfolio
Making Pet Rocks
Making Pet Rocks.
This is a fun activity for ages 2 – 102 – so its highly suitable to involve parents and grandparents in doing too alongside their children.
This can be done inside or at an outside table. , to produce something that reflects the personal style of the creator.
Brilliant for building imagination and creativity, leadin
Service Provider Member Posts
Job Description for a Centre Manager or Home-based Coordinator
Here is a template you can use and adapt for a manager job description – or centre supervisor, or home-based coordinator who is responsible for one group of visiting teachers.
If you would like more guidance and ideas go to the main article about writing JDs.
Service name or Logo
Position description
POSITION/ROLE:
E.g. Manag
How To Have Better Committee Meetings
Better Committee Meetings.
“Not another time-waster meeting!” – have you heard a comment like this?
I have observed and participated in some great committee and board meetings at early childhood services and no meeting has to be a time-waster or boring.
It can be done.
You can bring energy, heart, managem
The Risks of Implicitly Endorsing Third Party Schemes to Parents
Endorsing Third Party Schemes and Products.
What happens when parents see flyers / pamphlets and posters displayed in the entrance way of ECE services or when advertising material is sent home in children’s bags?
These might be from the Ministry of Education to promote the choices that it wants parents to make, or a new government scheme
Trauma Policy
A policy template for early childhood education services on how they will respond to and manage traumatic incidents, with concern for the impact on staff, children, families, and the operation of the service.
Traumatic incidents include death, serious injury, abuse, disasters such as earthquakes, intruder and violent incidents, and lockdowns.
See a news article here about traumatic incidents at ECE services, to learn the nature of various incidents that may occur.
Traumatic incidents may occur at the service or outside of the service, and are witnessed or experienced by one or more children and adults who are part of the service.
1. Title: Trauma Policy
2. Policy statement
Research Library – Today’s Featured Articles
Index for the NZ Research in ECE Journal, 2011, Vol 14
The titles, authors and abstracts for papers published in the NZ Research in Early Childhood Education Journal, Volume 14, 2011 are shown below.
To view any paper, scroll to the end of this page for copies.
Editorial
Dr Andrew Gibbons and Dr Kaye CedermanJoint NZRECE Editors for Vol. 14, 2011 Editorial, pp. 1 – 2.
Focus Group Methodology
Focus Group Methodology and its Usefulness in Early Childhood Research. By Claire McLachlan. Published in NZ Research in ECE Journal, 2005, pp. 113-123.
Abstract.
Focus groups are increasingly being used by researchers as a method of qualitative data gathering in educational contexts. The history of the focus group started with the ‘foc
Play and the Professional Early Childhood Teacher: A Personal Reflection
Play and the Professional Early Childhood Teacher: A Personal Reflection.
Sue Stover. AUT University, New Zealand.
Full Reference: Stover, S. (2014). Play and the professional early childhood teacher: A personal reflection. NZ Research in Early Childhood Education Journal. Special Issue: Early Childhood Policy, 17, 89-100.
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Call for Papers for the NZIRECE Journal
The NZIRECE Journal is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes research results, critiques, methodological papers and theoretical articles relating to children’s education, well-being and care
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