Teacher Member Posts
Implementing Primary Caregiving – Issues
Te Whāriki states that infants in particular should experience “unhurried and calm caregiving practices for feeding, sleeping and nappy changing.” So despite the barriers for some early childhood services such as large numbers of children and poor adult-child ratios, if […]
Becoming a Home-based Educator
The Joys, the Disappointments, and Why One Home-based Educator Knows She Has Made the Right Job Choice. After nine years working in early childhood centres Kimberley had left her job to raise her own child but when a good friend […]
Non-Contact Time Needs and Your Entitlement
Early Childhood Teacher Non-Contact Time. At centres and home-based services, teachers or educators have a wide range of responsibilities in their roles and finding time to do everything can especially be a challenge depending on things like the number of […]
Immigrant Children and Families
Immigrant Children in ECE. By Angel Chan. As New Zealand has opened its doors more to immigrants from all over the world, early childhood services are experiencing significant growth in the enrolment of immigrant children. Many immigrant children and parents […]
Service Provider Member Posts
Staff Meetings – Agenda and How to Conduct a Meeting
Staff meetings can work really well with the right Agenda and planning. Here’s how to achieve and cover what is important and make sure no meeting is a waste of valuable time. Scroll to near the end of this page […]
Social Media Policy
Social Media Policy. How social media is used can have a significant influence on the reputation of an early childhood service and the safety of participants. Social media technologies if used appropriately can become an excellent way to broaden and […]
Mentoring New People to Come onto the Committee
Mentoring new people. Are you finding that you have to twist the arm of an unwilling parent or person to be on the board or committee? Here are some tips so you never have to do this again. Most organisations, […]
Disciplinary Process
There may be a time that you find an employee is underperforming or an employee is engaging in misconduct or serious misconduct. You may not want to, but you will need to begin a disciplinary process with that employee. Here […]
Research Library – Today’s Featured Articles
Early Childhood Educator Perceptions of Children’s Physical Activity and the Outdoors
Research on how early childhood educators perceive the natural features outdoors influencing children’s movement development and physical activity. Read the full paper below. Or to order a pdf copy of the article go to the main NZIRECE Journal page.
Airplane Grows in the Tummy of Clouds: Living Through Relations in the Early Years of Life
Using a child’s expression that illustrates his mental image of constituted relations of living things, the author conceptualizes relationality, an interrelated view of being, and its importance for early childhood education. The difference between relation and interaction, and the significance […]
Preschool Teachers’ and Parents’ Perspectives on Primary School Preparation in Singapore
Research on preschool teachers’ and parents’ views on how to best prepare children for school. Read the full paper below. Or to order a pdf copy of the article go to the main NZIRECE Journal page.
Characteristics of Optimal Early Childhood Centre Outdoor Environments: Spaces and Places in which Children and Adults Want to Be
The purpose of this project was to investigate what teachers deemed optimal in their provision of an outdoor environment. This research involved 46 teachers from 15 early childhood centres in the North Island of New Zealand. The findings reported in […]