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- Letters expressing your 'Concern' and giving a first or second 'Formal Warning'
- Dismissal Letter
- Discipline and competence policy - an example or a policy and guidance
- Disciplinary Process
- Parent Survey tool for ECE Services and report
- Job Description template: Head teacher or room leader
- Job Description template: Qualified teacher
- Job Description template: Teaching assistant or student teacher
- Job Description template: Relievers
- Job Description template: Manager or supervisor
- Job Description template: Area manager
- What a job description is and what it should contain
- Job Description sample: Management or supervision position
- Wages, Pay, Qualifications and Scholarships
- Advice on Financial Assistance and Scholarships Available for Studying to Become an ECE Teacher
- Sponsors and Men in ECE Invitation Award Winners
- Pay scales, wages and salaries for teachers in early childhood education
- Information on Applying for the Men in Early Childhood Education Invitation Award
- Criteria for Entry into Early Childhood Teacher Training and Bridging Courses
- What is a "Recognised' ECE Qualification and Study Option Choices
- Recognition of Primary Teacher, Secondary Teacher, and Overseas Early Childhood Qualifications
- "Quality" The Best For Kids
- Research Snippets
- The 7 Essential Skills for Children to Have Before Starting School
- Differences between Montessori, Rudolf Steiner, Kindergarten, and Childcare Centres?
- When to Start a Child at an Early Childhood Education Programme
- Minimum Licensing and Quality Standards for Early Childhood Services in NZ
- Childcare, Kindergarten, Preschool, Daycare and Creche
- Six Signs of Quality Early Childhood Education/Childcare For Children (Birth to 6 Years)
- Playcentre, Kohanga Reo and Pacific Island Family Centres
- Home-based Care, Family Daycare, and Nannies
- Family based and personal solutions to finding suitable childcare
- Different Perspectives on What 'Quality' in Early Childhood Education and Care Is
- Who is the best person to trust your child's care to
- Funding rates, subsidies & fees
- Fees on Public Holidays and when the Service is Closed
- Work and Income (WINZ) Childcare Subsidy Entitlements
- Making a Complaint
- Costs to Parents of Childcare (early childhood education)
- Costs of making your own personal childcare arrangements
- Funding rates for different services - per child per hour (20 Hour and 30 Hour subsidy rates)
- News - Latest NZ News
- Time’s Up: Where’s the new rules for child safety?
- Regulation Changes – Here’s What You Need to Know and Do
- Why Christchurch early childhood centres don't have a problem attracting teaching staff
- PLD for teachers working with gifted children
- Minister extends ECE pay parity coverage
- Expert Testimony relating to the petition with more than 15,000 signatures requesting pay parity with primary teachers for all ECE teachers
- Attestation of minimum salary levels for certificated teachers
- Forced closure leaves parents confused and upset
- Free kindergarten teachers and associations showing support for early childhood teacher Pay Parity
- “We face closure within 12 months” – The financial outlook for ECE Services coming out of the COVID-19 Crisis
- Teaching Council Fees Will Be Scrapped: National Party Announcement
- Unclear regulations on staffing in ECE centres: Complaint heard by Parliamentary Select Committee
- ECE Service Providers for Paid Pay Parity
- Who will benefit from a 100% funding band and by how much?
- Analysis of Pre-Budget Announcements for ECE
- Behind the Early Childhood Council business group’s push to make government keep all ECE centres closed
- Fully paid childcare for essential workers nationwide
- Safety must come first before early childhood services re-open to any child
- NZQA review of ECE qualifications
- What it means for those providing care and support of the children of essential workers due to Covid-19
- COVID-19 Open Letter from Chinese NZ Early Childhood Teachers
- Covid-19 latest information and updates for the ECE Sector in New Zealand
- ECE services not meeting regulatory requirements
- I hope you got your Pen and Muffin
- Regulation change for centres on the ‘Person Responsible’ requirement
- Overseas ECE teachers backed by the Minister of Education over local teachers
- Supporters of the Petition for ECE Teacher Pay Parity
- Government's New Early Learning Action Plan – Why is there not more excitement about it?
- Eating in early childhood centres: Survival of the fittest versus safety
- Look out Labour, here comes National with its Education Discussion Document
- 7 Recommendations to the Ministry of Education for change to improve communication and child safety
- Recruiting Overseas Teachers – Has the ECC Business Group Got It Right?
- An Open Letter from Early Childhood Teachers to Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern and to Hon Chris Hipkins
- Triple the number of teachers referred to the Disciplinary Tribunal shows profession under stress
- External review needed of Ministry of Education’s work to ensure child safety in ECE
- Staff without an early childhood education qualification to be responsible for early childhood centres
- Misleading: NZEI’s claim it can deliver an immediate 11% pay increase to all ECE teachers
- How much funding is too much to go on management salaries and profit instead of on children and teacher salaries?
- Amazing Honeybees all the buzz in early childhood education
- A tree fell in an early childhood centre and everyone heard it
- Centralised payment of ECE teacher wages and integrated state ECE services: NZEI
- Ingredients for a truly ‘community’ based successful preschool
- What the rise in ECE complaints actually tells us
- Only a 1% rise in minimum wage rates stipulated by the Ministry of Education for most teachers in early childhood centres
- Why put a ban on non-vaccinated children attending ECE?
- Budget 2019: Does it support wellbeing in early care and education?
- Caring about children’s early education - Survey results 2019
- Christchurch Shooting: How best to support children's learning and coping in the aftermath of it
- Failing to make the grade: Ministry of Education and ERO handling of early childhood services not meeting minimum standards in 2018
- Insights into how mothers choose early childhood education and care: Ministry of Social Development Report
- China-NZ relations in early education flying high
- Public funding available to open a new centre or expand a current service
- What is in the Draft Strategic Plan for Early Learning
- Changed English Language Requirements for Teacher Registration
- Child kicked out for attendance of less than 7 hours a day
- Get the facts on the early childhood teacher shortage/ turnover in NZ
- A recipe for disaster (Early Childhood Council)
- Saying goodbye to election promises of funding for 100% qualified teachers
- Safety of children first - How a centre came to breach regulations
- Early childhood teacher training scholarships 2020
- Proposal to screen children for dyslexia, dyspraxia and giftedness with diagnosis recorded on national database
- Ask for the pay rise you deserve now before teachers are brought in from overseas
- Centre shut down following allegations of horrific abuse against children
- What’s changed for Auckland children, teachers and kindergartens
- What happens to home-based will affect us all
- In the Education Ministry we place our trust to enforce ECE minimum standards and practices but it is letting us down
- ECE Complaints in 2017 and names of services that did not meet operating standards
- Welcome into warmth
- New Survey Launched on Future Direction of Early Learning
- Increased early childhood education funding a needed bandage
- Will or Won't Budget 2018 Be Good For Early Childhood Education: Hope, words and work
- Toddler’s death: Too early to be naming and blaming early childhood centre
- ECE teachers need preventive education to avoid health hazard
- Early Childhood Teacher Health and Safety Needs Addressing
- Complaints Made Against NZ Early Childhood Services in 2016 Released
- Protecting the title of 'teacher' - 2 days left for submissions on a new bill before Parliament
- Funding changes and re-shaping of the ECE Sector
- Pro-gun centres: Evolve and Early Childhood Council Centres
- The Success of Pro-gun Childcare Providers in NZ - How this came to be
- Education Ministry failing its own standards by not releasing promised information on ECE complaints
- Why school starting age is a hot political issue
- Research throws new light on school-entry age
- An agenda for raising the quality of early childhood education in NZ
- What Chris Hipkins has proposed, the timeline, and essential elements missing in the proposed plan
- Impending Government review of the Early Childhood "Market” is nothing for centres or home-based ECE to fear
- Doing their best to keep children cool as temperatures soar
- A Broken Promise – Where did the 20 free hours of early childhood education go?
- Targeted Funding for Disadvantage - $10 million a year
- Quick 2 - 5 day police vetting of staff available
- Heritage language of Aotearoa - the ‘new’ target language in Early Childhood Education
- Free kindergartens claimed back by the people: Evening vigil outside the AGM of the Auckland Kindergarten Association
- Equity funding use and abuse
- Ratios and staffing problems hurt
- Kindy head resignation just the start
- Serious outcomes of kindergarten changes for children
- Child death and serious injury in early childhood education – Let’s get it out in the open
- Digging its own hole deeper - the Auckland Kindergarten Association ongoing story
- Education Minister Chris Hipkins and his interest in Early Childhood Education
- If school teachers and children need term breaks - do ECE teachers and children need these too?
- Teacher pay priorities for the new government
- Democracy missing – the troubling state of management and relationships at the Auckland Kindergarten Association
- Working as a contractor in home-based ECE can be crap – An educator’s request for any advice or suggestions
- How much Senior Managers are paid in ECE and the right of teachers and parents to know
- Labour’s election policy for early childhood education
- Payout for bullying won by early childhood teacher
- Free play in playgrounds subverted by technology - A new problem
- What the National Party has done for Early Childhood Education - A straight-talking analysis
- ERO investigating revised Te Whariki implementation in ECE services
- Freezing cold early childhood centre – saving centre power bill comes before children
- I did not expect to be working at an early childhood centre where children were force-fed
- Heroes or Dictators – a Charitable Community Board, its chief executive and standard of consultation on changing a publicly revered early childhood education service
- Ministry must front up over centre manager’s abuse of children
- Education Leaders Forum 2017 to be held in August
- Calls to set a target of five percent male teachers within 5 years
- Early childhood centres at Shooting Ranges - How acceptable?
- Teacher minimum wages up - Important information for ECE providers and employers
- Community of Learning – the Why, What and How to Take Part
- Government should focus on quality and look closely at spending when it comes to early childhood education says the OECD
- Food served in childcare centres falls short on nutrition
- Cultural competencies framework for teachers of Pasifika learners - Tapasā
- Lack of visibility of Te Whāriki workshops leaves many missing out and feeling uninformed
- Budget 2017 puts more children at risk of becoming vulnerable
- Open letter on Kindergarten Changes
- Kindergarten under threat
- What's your wish for Government spend on early childcare and education in this year's Budget?
- Birthday cakes, breastmilk and confining children's movement: A look at ERO’s report on food, nutrition, and physical activity in early childhood education services
- Practising Teacher Criteria and Code of Ethics Replaced by New Single Code
- Bungle over new Early Childhood Education Curriculum
- ECE teachers see red over higher fee charges that come in the guise of “consultation”
- Plan for Unionisation of the ECE sector
- NZ's first ECE academic journal celebrates 20 years of making research accessible
- Inadequate checking of early childhood education standards may lead to danger
- Target Not Achieved of 98% Children Participating in ECE in 2016
- Early childhood teachers have now been given access to apply for grants from the Government’s Teacher-Led Innovation Fund
- Teachers not attracted to work at Early Childhood Council centres
- Funding for qualified and certificated early childhood teachers – Good news!
- Consultation process for Te Whariki claimed to breach statutory and legal requirements
- ECE Teachers are Made of Money – Education Minister
- Four-year-old dies in Early Childhood Centre
- Tree incident at Auckland childcare centre rare and horrific and children need cuddles and understanding
- Why WINZ childcare subsidy coordinators are likely to go
- Questions over NZ early childhood education qualifications having no practical teaching experiences included
- Overworked, injured and bullied – how can we make work safer for early childhood teachers and senior staff?
- Early Childhood Education misses out in 2016 Budget
- Teaching about Death and Sacrifice and Erection of War Memorials at Early Childhood Services
- Early Childhood Education Services Scammed
- New Flag Favoured by NZ’s Youngest Citizens
- Ten new early childhood qualifications
- Handling of privacy responsibilities by ECE services and concerns remaining
- Voting by children on the shortlisted NZ Flag Options
- Big and continuing increase in child numbers at centres
- ERO to evaluate healthy eating and physical activity levels in ECE services
- Paid parental leave changes - the great aspects and the outstanding issues for parents and those in the ECE sector
- Will the Primary School Curriculum go the Early Childhood Way?
- Male Teachers' Meeting and Plans for the Next EC-Menz Summit in 2016
- Not all teachers supported to provide quality early childhood education, survey reveals
- Vulnerable children: Messages for ECE teachers and services from the Growing Up in NZ Study
- ERO investigating leak of infant and toddler communicators and explorers report
- Four big changes to teacher registration and dealing with misconduct
- Waitangi Tribunal Claim by the Te Kohanga Reo National Trust – Arguments from Both Sides of the Table
- Kindercare acquired by global private markets investment management firm
- Early Childhood Education System Failing to Support Maori Language and Culture – Te Kohanga Reo National Trust Board’s Reaction to the Government’s ECE Taskforce Report
- Year of the Sheep or Year of the Goat?
- Fees Incorrectly Treated as Donations - Inland Revenue Investigating
- ERO Report Highlights Lack of True Partnership with Māori Families in Early Childhood Education
- New requirements for child protection, child abuse policies and worker checks
- Home-Based ECE Providers Reminded To Make Sure Educators are Paid For Their Work
- A Trial of Flexible ECE (out-of-hours and weekend) Fails to Meet Targets for Participation
- Problem with Education Official's Reassurance to ECE Service Owners
- More childcare the focus for early childhood education budget
- Identifying Which ECE Services Produce Higher Educationally Achieving Children
- Maturity is a Better Indicator of School Readiness than a Child’s Age or Ability to Read, Write and Count
- Profit-Driven Early Childhood Education is Flourishing
- New parental leave package to benefit more families financially
- Digital TV Switchover Fails Children
- Kidicorp is no longer a commercial ECE operation
- First Kohanga Reo then it is …
- Child Bitten 9 Times at Early Childhood Learning Centre
- What's Happening to the Cost of Childcare / ECE
- Adam Buckingham - early childhood teacher extraordinaire
- ECE in Australia Will Have a Voice in the Highest Place Over the Next Few Years
- Employment case highlights risks for nannies, educators, and families
- Early Childhood Education Services Not Doing Enough to Promote Sign Language
- Popularity of Lower Level ECE Teaching Qualifications Challenging Level 7 ECE Teacher Qualifications
- Where have all the sessional kindergartens and childcare centres gone?
- Bullying Believed to Start Very Young in Early Childhood Education
- Charter Schools Likely to Include Preschoolers
- How Well is Government Doing in the Regions with its Target to Get More Parents to Use Childcare/ECE?
- What could be done to prevent another tragedy like the Whanganui heatstroke toddler death?
- Early Childhood Teacher Censured by Teachers' Council for Stealing Food From Children
- Kidicorp moves into the home-based ECE market
- What's going to happen to ECE: The Ministry's Briefings to the Minister
- Adult Daughter of Centre Supervisor Banned From Centre
- For ECE, little hope of positive change from National post-election
- ECE Participation for the Most Disadvantaged Children: Child Poverty Action Group Report
- New ERO Reports on Te Whariki Implementation and ECE Service Priorities for Children's Learning
- Kindercare Told Off By Employment Relations Authority
- Ministry releases data on Early Childhood Education complaints
- NZ's Largest Private ECE Centre Chain Purchases Kiwicare Auckland Centres
- Confidence in the early childhood education sector eroding further ahead of this year's election
- The Days of the NZ Teachers Council as We Know it Look Numbered
- Budget 2014 spending increases and new initiatives for the Early Education (ECE) Sector
- ECE Teacher Finalist in Annual Green Ribbon Awards
- Childcare and kindergarten employment practices - ERO Report
- Vaccinations Provided En-Masse at a Daycare
- NZ Tertiary College lets students (and the ECE sector) down - Ombudsman ruling released
- How Long Parents Spend Caring For Their Children Each Day
- Ministry’s move on complaints a small step in the right direction
- Sponsors needed to help fund grants to invite men into the traditionally women's profession of ECE
- NZ Rated Poorly in UNICEF Report on Child Well-Being
- An Australian Parenting Expert says ECE/Childcare is Bad for Children in his Latest Book
- Returning to work mothers prefer known carer to look after their first child in the home
- Early Childhood Education System One of the Most Sexist
- Pasifika Families Targeted to Help Government Reach its Better Public Service Goal of 98% percent Participation in ECE
- Early Childhood Centres Could Be Reviewed as Infrequently as Every Four Years
- Optimism in the Early Childhood Sector is Disappearing
- Mother Ordered to Pay Almost $6,000 for Sacking a Casual Nanny
- Re-think of NZ Government ECE Policies and Practices Needed Says ECE Sector
- Calls for More Monitoring of Disabled Children in Early Childhood Education
- NZ Teachers Council to be Replaced by a New Group With Government Appointed Members
- New Home-based ECE Business Lobby Group Forms
- Complaints Suggest Problems with Quality Control in the Early Childhood Sector
- MY ECE to Help Parents Make Informed Early Childhood Education Choices
- Parents of Children with Disabilities Struggle to Access Quality ECE Support
- Rest Home Worker's Employment Court Case Could Pave Way for Challenges to Pay Rates in Early Childhood Education
- Participation in ECE Evidence Booklet
- Children with Special Needs in ECE – ERO Evaluation Findings
- Plans to Review the Home-based Sector Shelved
- High Public Satisfaction with Kindergartens
- Budget 2013 - Spending Increases, Cuts, and Implications for the ECE Sector
- Participation in ECE (but Not ECE itself) is Associated With Greater Weight Gain in Children
- ERO Confirms Planned Changes for ECE Centre Reviews and Reporting
- Government Decides ECE Participation is a Social Obligation. How People and Services May Adjust and Respond
- Technology Use and Internet Safety in ECE
- The Direction ECE Is Being Taken by Government: Key Points from the Ministry of Education’s Annual Report 2012
- Scholarship Scheme to Invite Men into Early Childhood Education – A First for NZ
- Latest Survey Shows ECE Sector Keen For Govt to Focus on Improving Standards and Putting Children First
- Serious Child Harm Cases at Early Childhood Education Centres this Week
- Controversial Three Storey Childcare Centre with Astroturf Playgrounds on Each Level Opens
- NZ's Secretary for Education Lesley Longstone Resigns
- Qualified Early Childhood Teachers Paid Less than the Centre Cleaners
- Crown Should Apologise for Failures in its Treatment of Kōhanga Reo, says Waitangi Tribunal
- Australians Recognising the Value of Employers Investing in Staff Children and Childcare
- Home-Based ECE Sector Review by the Ministry of Education 2012/13
- Latest Figures on the Costs of Providing ECE, the Cost Drivers, Revenue Sources and Volunteer Contributions
- Welcome to NZEI's New President - Judith Nowotarski
- ECE to be Compulsory for Children from 3 years until Entry to School
- Male Teachers Needed to Bring Diversity and Add to the Quality of ECE
- What's all the Fuss About Playdough?
- Proposals to Reduce Child Poverty for Under 6s are Welcome but more Debate is Needed
- Government Better Public Service Action Plan for ECE Short-sighted
- OECD’s Latest Report Gives Direction for Improving NZ’s ECE Curriculum Te Whāriki
- Children Attending Two Kindergartens is Okay by Kindergarten Assn Rules
- Parental Involvement in Childhood Education
- ECE Funding System Changes in NZ and Australia
- ECE Funding System Changes
- Greater Transparency in the Pipeline for the Education Ministry's Early Childhood Advisory Committee (ECAC)
- Are Nannies and Families Right to Complain about Being Treated in the Same Way as Other Licensed ECE Settings?
- Parents view ECE services as Childcare because of mother's work or study commitments
- Advisory Groups Call For More Regulation & Better Quality Through Emphasis on Compliance and Teacher Qualification
- Budget 2012 - Spending Changes and Implications for the ECE Sector
- Government Budget 2012 ECE Pre-Announcements
- Teaching Children about Competition and to Want to Achieve
- Studies Continue to Show that it's Not Participation in Quality Early Childhood Education or Childcare that Matters for Child Achievement but a Child's Family and Home Background
- Qualified Teachers 100% - NZCA Study
- Proposal to Track Child Attendance in ECE and Integrate with Health Data
- University of Canterbury Planning to Close a Centre that is Losing Money
- NZ Education Ministry Call for ECE Funding Advisers
- Extending Paid Parental Leave
- "No Time for Gloom" in ECE Teacher-Led Services
- Demand for ECE Teachers Drops
- The Worst and the Best Employers of Men
- Scaring Single Parents on the DPB About a Lack of Quality Childcare
- Early Childhood Services to Become the Primary Evaluators of Themselves as ERO Changes its Role
- Ministerial Inquiry into How a Convicted Sex Offender Came to Be Working in Schools: A Wake-Up Call
- Keeping Up With Research Can Be Hard but MIT Early Childhood Staff Show Commitment
- New Government Working Groups to Provide Advice on Improving ECE Quality
- Family First Calls for a Change in the Use of 'Daycare' - Early Childhood Education
- Same Old – Same Old. Treasury Advice on Targeting ECE Funding Assistance but is the Government Listening?
- Ministry of Education's Advice on ECE Funding and Policy for the New Education Minister
- ERO Findings on ECE Curriculum Support of Children's Social-Emotional Competence
- How Good is the Teaching Children Get in Early Childhood Education?
- Childcare Warning: Dangers of New Year Partying
- Early Childhood Education & Childcare Under a New National Government
- Fears for the Future in the Early Childhood Sector
- Survey Results Out: What Govt Should do for Children & ECE
- National's ECE Policy Intentions - Review Use of Te Whariki, Change Funding, Set Up More Advisory Groups, etc
- Party Policies for Early Childhood Education Just Over One Month Out From the Election
- Competent Learners Study Shows ECE Doesn't Have Significant Long-Term Benefit for NZ Kids
- Developing Policy for Gifted Children
- Kidicorp, One of NZ's Largest Providers of Early Childhood Education, Purchases ABC Learning Centres
- Sun Protection Taken Seriously but Better Policies & Practices Needed
- Daddy Daycare Planned
- Minister Comes Clean on ECE Taskforce Purpose and Playcentre is Saved
- Govt Green Paper on Vulnerable Children
- Gifted Learners Found in Every ECE Service
- Government's ECE Taskforce Report Now Out
- Research Backs Dame Lesley Max on Link Between Child Aggression & ECE
- Kindergartens to get More Funding than other Community-Based Services
- Early Childhood Education Comes Out as A Winner in Budget 2011: Or Does It?
- Commercial Approach to ECE Provision Fails Children: Salvation Army Report
- Childcare Services & Providers to Face Stiff New Fines For Poor Practices
- From 50 to 150 children or up to 75 babies - Centre Regulation Changes Announced
- Children's Commission Inquiry into Under 2s in Non-Parental ECE Childcare
- A Few More Few Good Men
- Children's Day an Occasion Not to Be Overlooked
- Reactions to Teachers’ Council Position on ECE Teachers and Registration
- More Babies in ECE and Big Increase in Family Daycare Enrolments: What are the Risks?
- High Court Ruling Implications for Parents Who Stay Home
- Changes in Funding for Students & Provisionally Registered Teachers
- Kindergarten Assn to make Staff Redundant Ahead of Govt Funding Cut
- Builders of New Early Childhood Services to Face an Incompatible Situation
- 'Lost in Transition' - ECE and Educational Achievement
- Kindergarten Girl Nearly Strangled: Teacher Performs CPR
- ECE Funding Cutback Protest - Tauranga
- NZ Police heads towards gender balance while the Ministry of Education holds on to sex-role stereotypes for early childhood education
- School starting age to change and attendance made compulsory upon starting
- For Heaven’s sake, leave our children alone – don’t subject them to performance rating tests when they should be playing and having fun in Early Childhood Education!
- Qualified highly skilled early childhood teachers could soon be paid as low as $15.25 an hour while teacher-child ratios are also under threat
- Students take a gamble on recognition of their early childhood qualification
- NZ childcare costs are among the highest in the world
- Newsletter - Early Childhood Education Alert
- Early Childhood Alert, October 2020
- This week's quick notices
- This week's quick ECE notices
- Notices last week of Sept
- Early Childhood Alert, Sept 2020
- Quick Notices 21 Sept 2020
- Quick Notices 14 Sept 2020
- Quick Notices 7 Sept 2020
- Early Childhood Alert, 4 August 2020
- Early Childhood Alert, 23 July 2020
- Early Childhood Alert, 9 July 2020
- Early Childhood Alert, 24 June 2020
- Early Childhood Alert 8 June 2020
- Early Childhood Alert 20 May 2020
- Early Childhood Alert 5 May 2020
- Early Childhood Alert 23 April 2020
- Level 3 Next Week - ECE Special Alert
- New Rules for ECE Special Alert
- Early Childhood Alert April 2020
- Early Childhood Alert March 2020
- Notices 6 March 2020
- Early Childhood Alert February 2020
- Notices 4 Feb 2020
- Research Paper Call NZ-International Early Childhood Journal
- Funding notice
- Early Childhood Alert January 2020
- Early Childhood Alert No. 21, 2019
- Newsletter Notice: Funding Parity with 'Free' Kindergartens
- Early Childhood Alert, No. 20, 2019
- Early Childhood Alert No 19, 2019
- Early Childhood Alert No 18, 2019
- Early Childhood Alert No 17, 2019
- Funding and Pay special issue Early Childhood Alert No 16, 2019
- Vaccination News and our regular Early Childhood Alert No 15, 2019
- Early Childhood Alert No 14, 2019
- Early Childhood Alert No 13, 2019
- Early Childhood Alert No 12, 2019
- Early Childhood Alert No 11, 2019
- Early Childhood Alert No 10, 2019
- Research invite
- Early Childhood Alert No 9, 2019
- ECE Teacher Pay National Meeting in Wellington
- Early Childhood Alert No.7, 2019
- Early Childhood Alert No. 8, 2019
- Early Childhood Alert No.6, 2019
- Early Childhood Alert No. 5, 2019
- Early Childhood Alert No. 4, 2019
- Early Childhood Alert No. 3, 2019
- Early Childhood Alert No. 2, 2019
- Early Childhood Alert No. 1, 2019
- Early Childhood Alert No. 27, 2018
- Early Childhood Alert No. 26, 2018
- Early Childhood Alert No. 25, 2018
- Latest Early Childhood Alert, No. 24, 2018
- Latest Early Childhood Alert, No. 23, 2018
- Latest Early Childhood Alert, No. 22, 2018
- Latest Early Childhood Alert, No. 21, 2018
- Latest Early Childhood Alert No. 20, 2018
- Latest Early Childhood Alert No. 19, 2018
- Latest Early Childhood Alert No. 18, 2018
- Latest Early Childhood Alert No. 17, 2018
- Latest Early Childhood Alert No. 16, 2018
- Latest Early Childhood Alert No. 15, 2018 (with a focus quality and regulations)
- Latest Early Childhood Alert No. 14, 2018
- Early Childhood Alert No. 13, 2018 (with a focus on literacy in the curriculum)
- Early Childhood Alert No. 12, 2018 (a special issue on staff matters)
- Early Childhood Alert No. 11, 2018 (Technology in ECE focus)
- Early Childhood Alert No. 10, 2018
- Early Childhood Alert No. 9, 2018
- Early Childhood Alert No. 8, 2018
- Early Childhood Alert No. 7, 2018
- Early Childhood Alert No. 6, 2018
- Early Childhood Alert No. 5, 2018
- Major News - special edition of the ECE Alert
- Early Childhood Alert No. 3, 2018
- Early Childhood Alert No. 2, 2018
- Early Childhood Alert 21st January 2013 - On Special Needs and Disability
- Early Childhood Alert for 7 November 2011 (this newsletter received over 82,000 online hits!)
- Events coming up and past
- ECE Teacher Pay National Meeting
- National Early Childhood Management Forum 2019
- Education Leaders Forum 2017 Early Childhood Education Speaker Presentation
- Symposium on Men who Teach Young Children
- National Early Childhood Management Forum, May 2015
- Early Childhood Management National Forum 2016
- 8th National Summit on Men in Early Childhood Teaching and Care
- National Early Childhood Management Forum (May 2013)
- National Early Childhood Management Forum (Sept 2011)
- National Early Childhood Management Forum (Sept 2012)
- NZ Early Childhood Research Conference, 2012
- "Future for Children". The 2nd national Early Childhood Policy Forum 2011
- National Early Childhood Service Management Forum (Oct 2010)
- "Future for Children". The 1st national Early Childhood Policy Forum 2008
- 1st National Summit on Men in Early Childhood Teaching & Care
- News - World Headlines
- Teachers sue for injuries caused in working with children
- Workplace health and safety in Australian early childhood centres
- Council and big development don’t care if drop zone outside kindy is not available to parents and if parking policy means 22 children at a centre are left with only 1 qualified teacher
- Where I can say who I want to change my nappy
- Smacking is it helpful or harmful to children? Major new study findings released
- Early Childhood Education in the year before starting school does not give disadvantaged children and working parents the boost advocates say it does
- Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump’s presidential platforms on early childhood education
- Conflict between students and research supervisors - complaints
- Providers claiming for their own children now banned
- Ratios and Qualified Staff Requirements about to Change in the UK along with Allowing Schools to Accept Children From Age 2
- Parents Have to Scan Fingerprints So State Can Track their Child's Daily ECE Participation and Fund Only the Hours of Actual Attendance
- Qualified Staff Improve Children's Learning, Report Says
- Early Years Sector in The UK Showing How It Can Fight Language and Literacy Decline
- New Guidance Recommendations Covering Home Visits, Early Education and Childcare for Vulnerable Children
- School Readiness Network Brings Together School and ECE Teachers
- With the Cost of Childcare - Paid Work is Becoming an Activity Many Middle-Income Families Can No Longer Afford
- Should We Start Impersonating Singapore for Early Childhood Education? ECE in Singapore and Government Plans
- Parent Fees to be Capped at $10-a-day for Full-Time Childcare and Public School System to Provide Childcare Services For Any Child Under the Age of 5 to Attend on a Voluntary Basis
- New Framework for Helping ECE Centres Evaluate & Support the Professional Development Needs of Staff
- Ice-Cream Trucks Taking Preschool to Children Not Able to Access State Provided Free Preschool for Preparing 4 Year-Olds for School
- Operation of Unregistered Preschools in China Questioned
- Children of Migrant Workers Forced Out of Early Childhood Education in China as Low Cost Services are Closed
- What Early Education is Really Like for Children in Some South African Preschools
- Fiji ECE Centre Tradition for Children to Give Books to Classmates When Leaving for School
- New Research from the USA Adds to Body of Evidence that Early Education Benefits At-Risk Children
- Early Childhood Regulations Not Doing Enough To Protect Children's Health and Teeth, Study Says
- Nature-Based Curriculum - Providing Outdoor Early Childhood Education
- Centres Respond to the Problem of Parents Leaving Children Hours After Pick-Up Deadlines
- United States Republican and Democratic Political Platforms Overlook Childcare Issues
- ECE Providers Protest Over a New Policy Requiring Parents to Scan Their Fingerprints
- Fighting Crime with Early Education
- Routine Spot Checks Find Many ECE Teachers Have Not Had Mandatory Working with Children Security Checks
- How Many Kids Waiting for Affordable Childcare in Hamilton is Too Many?
- Blue Chip Early Childhood Education Centres
- South Asia Records Highest Increase In ECE Enrolments Worldwide
- Community-Level Involvement Key to Shared Ownership of Difficulties Being Faced By Children
- No Inspections Done to Check on Safety of Home-based ECE Providers
- Presumption that Men Working with Children are Dangerous
- High Quality Learning Experiences Can Happen Anywhere and Must in ECE Centres as That is Where Children Spend Time
- Being a Man Working in Early Childhood Education is No Issue for a Child Advocate
- Plans to Introduce Full-Day Kindergarten as it's too Difficult to Strengthen the Childcare Sector to Give Children a Stronger Start to School
- Childhood Obesity - Regulations in Early Childcare Settings and Children Being Active
- Proposal to Pay One Month of Sick Leave to Staff in Centres in Ireland
- Australian Parents Struggle to Find Childcare
- The Right of Tribal Children to Early Childcare and Education
- Round-the-Clock Childcare Could Soon be a Reality In Australia
- More Comprehensive Early Childhood Care Policy Needed: Civil Society Group
- Effects of Childcare For 2 and 3 Year Olds
- Providing Early Childhood Education Makes Good Business Sense
- Consultation Begins on the Budget Based Funding Program for ECE in Regional, Remote and Indigenous Communities in Australia
- Call to Nationalise Singapore's 100% Private ECE Sector
- Private Childcare Programmes May Not Provide the Best Quality Options for Children
- Report on What's Happening to Costs, Fees and Staffing after Introduction of National Quality Famework
- Heat Wave Prompts Call For Caution in Allowing Children Outdoor Play
- Nationwide Garden Parties to Raise Money to Sponsor ECE Fees for Kids
- Most Cases of Sexual Child Abuse or Death Reported in Unlicensed Childcare Premises
- Parents Spend More On Childcare Than Anything Else
- Better Quality Checks/ Inspections Needed
- City Council Seeking to Save Money Wants Ministry of Education to Take on Responsibility for its Childcare Centres
- Up-skilling 'Caregivers' to be "Educators' - A Key Step to Developing Good Childcare
- ECE Providers and School Officials Get Parents to Implement Home-based Programme to Make Sure Children Reach School Entry Standards
- Why Wages for Early Childhood Educators Need to be at a Professional Level
- Early Childhood Education Qualifications System Slammed in Review
- Professional Development for All ECE Staff in Sth Australia on Effective Teaching and Care of Children with Disabilities and From Diverse Ethnic and Linguistic Backgrounds
- Childcare Subsidies For Low Income Families Do Not Necessarily Mean Children Experience Higher Quality ECE
- Government Departments Ordered to Provide ECE for Employee's Children
- Australia: Fears that Extra Government Funding to Raise Quality of Childcare Will Ultimately Be Gobbled Up In Fee Increases to Parents
- Early Childhood Teachers to be Paid Bonuses on Completing Further Qualifications in an Effort to Keep Highly Qualified Teachers
- Tobacco Tax Revenue to Fund Raising the Status and Earnings of Childcare Teachers - an example of Public-Private Partnership
- The Value of Camera Surveillance in Early Childhood Education Centres
- Childcare in India - Anybody Can Start a Preschool and Westernised Curriculum in Chain ECE Centres Not Suitable for Indian Population
- Exposure (or not) to Technology in the Early Years Creates Educational Disparities by School Age
- School-Age Children Notice Low Wage and Low Qualifications of Teachers in Early Childhood Education and Write to Politicians
- Early Childhood Education, Research, and Teacher Education on the Same Site - A University Children's Village
- ABC Childcare Chain Breaks with its Controversial Past
- Concern about Compulsory Targets and Assessing Children's Achievement in Early Childhood Education
- Is it Better to Start School at Age 6 than Age 5? It is if you are a Bright Child
- Recognising the Value of Early Childhood Education: It Really is Brain Science
- Childcare & Kindergarten Teachers Require Special Skill Set if They are to Help Children be Successful Later at School
- Secure Attachments and Maternal Sensitivity Predicts future Child Obesity
- Why Chores and Being a Helper is Good For Children in Early Childhood Education Centres and at Home
- Early childhood is a critical time to stop obesity - Breastfeeding, sleep, healthy food and no TV in bedroom
- Update on Politics and Funding of Free Early Childhood Education in Scotland
- Reaching Families through Early Childhood Parenting Programmes To Prevent Abuse and Deaths
- The Situation for ECE Teachers: Low Pay, Longer Hours, Working Over Holiday Breaks, and Employers Hiring More Non-Regular Employees
- Across the Whole of Africa - A Call To Monitor and Advocate for Early Childhood Care Policies and Budgets
- Childcare Staff Scare Parents with a Virtual Strike
- Child Advocacy Should Be a Core Role of the Early Childhood Teacher
- Participation in Early Childhood Education Varies Because of Cultural Factors - Or Does it?
- Privately Funded Scholarships To Cover Childcare Fees at Centres Engaged in Quality Improvement
- Singapore Bucks the International Recession with Huge Funding Boost to ECE
- Parents Lacking Parenting Skills and Leaving Child Care to Teachers and ECE Services
- People Granted Permission to Work with Children Found to Be High Risk Abusers and Criminals
- Education Budget Reductions Could See Early Childhood Education Moved to Social Services Dept
- A Paradigm Shift from the Idea of a Child Attending ECE and Towards the Goal of ECE Providers Supporting Every Family's System of Care
- What's in a Name? "Early Years Practitioner" is the New Cool Name for Early Childhood Professionals
- What Makes a Preschooler in Childcare Happy?
- Free ECE Scheme Keeps the Childcare Sector Going
- The Costs to Parents of Working: Is it Worth it?
- Finding Out How to Reduce the Teacher Shortage and Lure Early Childhood Educators Back to the Profession
- Implementation of Programme Quality Rating System Proving Successful in Raising Quality Voluntarily
- Parents Swoop on Vacancies in Childcare Services
- Businesses See Big Returns in Investing in Early Childhood Education Programmes
- Educators to be Taught Storytelling
- Reports
- Staff Pay and Workforce Retention: Results from the 2020 Early Childhood Education National Survey
- Covid-19 and ECE Sector Reactions to Government Recommendations
- Early Childhood Education Teacher Pay Parity Campaign Book
- Early Childhood Sector Confidence Survey Results 2019
- Choking on raw apple: A report into a tragic incident in early childhood education and care in NZ
- How Safe are Early Childhood Education Workplaces? Survey Results
- Bullying in the Early Childhood Education Sector
- Teachers' Views on the Quality of Centres for Children
- Confidence and Funding Survey Report 2018
- Staff safety in early childhood education workplaces (2017 survey results)
- Improvement yet to arrive: ECE worker endorsement of the quality of ECE services (2017 report)
- Union membership, why join NZEI Te Riu Roa, problems staff face and challenges facing the union
- Your views on the salary attestation requirement, teachers not being on the floor to be counted in ratios, and minimum wage protections for non-kindergarten ECE teachers
- ECE Now - Dr Sarah's view on current issues in early childhood education
- Early Childhood Teacher Pay Parity Campaign
- Early Childhood Teachers to Use New Law to Get Pay Parity
- 2nd Meeting with the Ministry of Education on its work towards achieving pay parity for all ECE teachers
- Synthesis of Evidence on Pay Parity and Early Childhood Teacher Pay for the Ministry of Education
- Pay Parity Campaign Update – June 2020
- Pay Parity Campaign Update – November 2019
- Help get pay parity for ECE teachers put into law - how to easily and quickly do a submission
- The Pay Parity Campaign: What’s Happened in our First Week?
- NZEI’s 11% Campaign – It Sounds Great, but What’s Inside the Package?
- Unqualified teaching staff exploited
- Videos on the topic of ECE teacher pay, work conditions, and the effects on children of high staff turnover
- David Haynes: ECE Teachers - Pay Parity or Pay Equity?
- Like chalk and cheese: Pay Equity and Pay Parity an analysis of different paths to get better wages and conditions
- Exploitation of Teachers Working in ECE - What the government can do to end this
- Janet Dixon: "Investing in teachers is investing in children - our future leaders"
- Cost Analysis: Can centres afford to pay teachers more?
- National Survey Results: Sector views on ECE teacher wage rates set by the Ministry of Education and on pay parity with teachers in primary schools/ kindergartens
- Bethany O'Hagan: "Ask an early childhood teacher why there is a teacher shortage and we can tell you"
- Karen Girvan: "The pay realities for teachers when moving from a kindergarten setting into another community ECE setting"
- Hugo van Stratum: Pay disparity, profit making, fair treatment and advocacy for a unified pay scale
- Review of the Education (Early Childhood Services) Regulations
- Increase the minimum room temperature
- Person responsible change
- Remove the need to give at least 21 days’ notice before a licence can be suspended
- Amending the provisional licence regulations and cancelling licences when services cycle on and off provisional licences
- What it will mean if the Ministry has the power to issue written directives to services that breach regulations and this will be only for health and safety matters
- Amending the licence when there's a change in service provider
- Information the Ministry intends to use to assess an application for a new licence
- Licensing fee
- Books and Book Reviews
- Te Whare by Ngaere Roberts with Christine Dale
- Ko Kiwi Ma by Ngaere Roberts with Christine Dale
- Men who Teach Young Children: An International Perspective by David Brody
- I am NOT Bacon by Carlie Mascelle
- Suffer the Little Children by David Smith
- Progressing Play: Practicalities, Intentions and Possibilities in Emerging Co-constructed Curriculum by Leanne Hunter and Lisa J Sonter
- Teaching Early Years Mathematics, Science and ICT by Geoff Hilton Annette Hilton, Shelley Dole and Chris Campbell
- Ideas for Play: Literacy by Emma Smoldon and Megan Howell
- Infant and toddler NZ board books
- Young Children Becoming Curriculum: Deleuze, Te Whāriki and Curricular Understandings by Marg Sellers
- Crossing the Border: A Community Negotiates the Transition from Early Childhood to Primary School by Carol Hartley, Pat Rodgers, Jemma Smith, Sally Peters and Margaret Carr
- Insights from the Playgroup Movement: Equality and Autonomy in a Voluntary Organisation by Ann Henderson (Editor)
- What’s Happening To Our Boys? by Maggie Hamilton
- All You Need to Know About Action Research by Jean McNiff and Jack Whitehead
- Be Brave by Karen Rochester
- Smart Parenting for Safer Kids by Freda Briggs
- The Excellence of Play by Janet Moyles (Editor)
- Learning from Sure Start: Working with Young Children & their Families by Jo Weinberger et al (Eds)
- Critical Issues in Early Childhood Education by Nicola Yelland (Editor)
- Leading to Reading – The Easy Way by Barbara Morris
- What is Research? Methodological Practices and New Approaches by Jeanette Rhedding-Jones
- Rethinking Parent and Child Conflict by Susan Grieshaber
- Birth to Three Matters: Supporting the Framework of Effective Practice by Lesley Abbott and Ann Langston (eds)
- Beyond Quality in Early Childhood Education & Care Postmodern Perspectives by Gunilla Dahlberg, Peter Moss & Alan Pence
- Turning Trash into Treasure by Adam Buckingham
- Young Children's Behaviour, Practical Approaches by Louise Porter
- Understanding Early Childhood Issues and Controversies by Helen Penn
- The NZ Early Childhood Literacy Handbook by Judy Hamer & Paul Adams
- "A City Possessed": The Christchurch Civic Creche Case by Lynley Hood
- Celebrations, Special Events & Holidays
- Birthday cakes – Should we allow these and what are the options?
- World Teachers' Day, 5th October
- World Down Syndrome Day 21st March
- Commonwealth and Olympic Games Activities for Children in ECE
- Birthday party ideas and tips for under-5s in early childhood education and home settings
- Baby Girl Names: Top 10 Names, Unique Names, and Maori Names
- Baby Boy Names: Top 10 Popular Names, Traditional Names and Maori Names
- Gifts appropriate to give and loved by toddlers and preschoolers
- Guy Fawkes on 5th November - The History and Age-Appropriate Ways for Celebrating
- St Patrick's Day in March - Mischievous Leprechauns & More
- ANZAC Day activity ideas, discussions and biscuit recipe for young children
- Waitangi Day and including this in your planning and curriculum
- Shrove Tuesday - 25th Feb in 2020
- Halloween and Some Different Ways of Celebrating
- Father's Day and Mother's Day Activity Ideas
- Rugby World Cup - Capturing the Interest and teaching tips
- Chinese New Year 2020 - 新年快乐 HAPPY NEW YEAR!
- Children's Day in New Zealand for Children Under 5 years
- Diversity in Cultural, Religious, and Family Beliefs Concerning Celebrations
- Matariki: Celebrating the Māori New Year
- Christmas activities, present making, games and discussing the meaning of Christmas with children
- Diwali or Deepavali - the 'Festival of Lights'
- Easter celebrations and appropriate activities for children
- Culture and Working with Parents & Whanau
- Tikanga in Practice - Teaching Aspirations
- Parent newsletters can be used to support children's maths learning by crossing the home-school boundry
- Parents as First Teachers (PAFT) research reports
- Engaging with fathers supports the needs of mothers - innovative ways of looking at an old problem
- Developing Breastfeeding Friendly Childcare - A research study and recommendations arising from the research
- "Breastfeeding Support: Practice, Policy & Research" research article
- Changes and Issues in Parenting
- Becoming More Father Friendly
- Immigrant children and families
- Engaging with Families - How an Early Childhood Centre Did This
- Creating Family Support and Building Local Partnerships
- Ko Tau Rourou Ko Taku Rourou ā Kua Mārama Shared Understandings and Reflection on Wairua
- An Authentic Version of the Concept of Tuakana-Teina dictated by Whakapapa
- Men in ECE - Policies and Research Papers
- German Research and Papers on Men in Early Childhood Education and Care (English translation)
- Statistics on Men in NZ Early Childhood Education
- How to Achieve 8% Male Teachers in Early Childhood Teaching - The example of Norway
- An internationally large research study, interviewing men in in early childcare and its findings
- Teachers' Gender and their Interactions and Behaviours with Children
- Including Men in Early Childhood Education: Insights from the European Experience
- Men at Work: Sexism in Early Childhood Education. A report
- Accentuating the Otherness of Men in Early Childhood Education - An Analysis of Men's Stories Posted on the TeachNZ Website. An NZRECE journal article by Alex M Williams
- Proceedings of the very First Summit on Men in Early Childhood Teaching & Care in NZ in 2007
- Spotlight on Male Teachers - A Short History of Men's Involvement and the Characteristics of Men Who Enter Early Childcare and Teaching Work
- SET Early Childhood Research Folio Paper
- Teaching: A Women-Only Profession? A 1997 NZ Annual Review of Education journal article
- "A Few Good Men or a Few Too Many?" The Original Massey University Research Study on Male ECE Teachers (1997)
- 'Of Puppy Dog Tails, Sugar and Spice': Gender Inequality and Discrimination in ECE. A Delta journal article
- Literature Review on Men in ECE by Julia Button
- National Survey Results Report on the Issue of Men (Not) Being Involved in Early Childhood Teaching
- Men who Teach Young Children: A Policy and Research Symposium
- Men in ECE - Campaign Blog
- What the Education Minister Says About the Importance of Bringing Men into Early Childhood Education Work
- T-Shirt and Poster Ideas from Around the World for Campaigns to Increase the Ratio of Male Educators
- Radio Interview on Gender and Exploring Issues Around Men's Involvement in ECE
- More Men Wanted in Child Care Centres
- Calling All Male Early Childhood Teachers in Canterbury
- One of Two Men Working in a Pool of About 200 Kindergarten Teachers (and not in a secure/permanent position)
- Arguments and Tips for Getting More Men into Early Years Work
- ONE News TVNZ interview: Push to Get More Males into Early Education
- What Makes For a Successful Campaign to Get More Men in Early Childhood Education - Learning From Germany
- NZ Representation at International 'Men in Early Childhood Education and Care' Conference in Berlin
- Guys find their Niche at Early Childhood Centre
- Reasons for Including Men in Childcare & Early Childhood Teaching
- Changing Nappies is a Job for Men Too
- Men are Wanted in Early Childhood Teaching in NZ But Are Yet to Be Invited
- Desperately Seeking Male Childcare Teachers in Germany
- Men in ECE Not Helped by Early Childhood Council
- Symposium on Men Who Teach Young Children - Dr Alexander speech
- Men in ECE - Your Questions & Answers
- Survival Tips for Beginning Male Teachers
- How Employers May Achieve Getting Job Applications from Male Teachers (as well as women teachers)
- A Family Protests the Appointment of a Teacher who is a Man - What Advice Would You Give to the Early Childhood Centre?
- Scholarships and Funding Available for Men Training for Early Childhood Teaching
- How to Open Teenage Boys’ Eyes to Early Childhood Work as a Career Option
- Why Would Any Man Want to Work in Childcare?
- Why Advocate for Men to Work as Teachers in the Early Years When the Quality of Teaching is More Important than Teacher Gender?
- Female Teachers Feeling Envious of How Popular the Male Teacher is at their Centre
- Can Women Understand How Boys Tick? Is it Best For Boys to Have a Male Teacher?
- Centre Owner Doesn't Want to Put Centre at Risk By Employing Men
- Teacher Education Training Programme Staff Uncertain About Supporting Students Who are Male
- Can a Male Teacher Be Fired For Not Being 'Man' Enough?
- How May Female Educators Find Common Ground with Dads?
- Men in ECE - Their Stories & Experiences
- Josh Allen: Twenty-one year old says early childhood teaching is a perfect and logical career choice
- Matthew Lambert: Finding work that feels right and makes one happy
- Atsushi Ukito: My reflections on being a male teacher of infants and toddlers
- Joshua McKay: Taking up training to be an early childhood teacher to give children the best experiences
- Ben Goris: Working with children is inspiring and preferred to being in IT work
- Patrick Lockley: A Decision to Put His Family First Led Patrick to Early Childhood Teacher Education
- Robert Barlow: From Company Director to Being a Father and Discovering ECE Teaching as a Rewarding Career
- Jade Bollond: Turning a Passion for Working with Children into Reality
- Action-based and Practitioner Research
- Reflective Practice Based Enquiry: Supporting Early Childhood Practitioners to Publish their Research and Develop an Academic Voice
- A short guide to doing Action Research to bring about change or improvements in your centre or ECE programme / environment
- ICT - Starting an Assignment or Research on ICT
- Is Everything We Call 'Research' Research?
- Discovering Meanings in Research with Children
- Researching with Men
- Researching to Inform Teaching Practice
- Collaborating with Practitioners to do Research
- Methods, Techniques & Sample Decisions
- Readings/ References on Topics & Thesis Directory
- Ethics Procedures and Code
- Getting Started, Publishing & Presenting
- Research as a Journey: The New Researcher as a First-Time Traveller
- Finding and Choosing a Good Supervisor for Your Research
- Abstracts - How to Write a Good Abstract and Guidelines for Reviewing Abstracts
- Preparing your talk or presentation - tips for introduction, content and structure
- Essay writing tips for first and second year students
- Publishing your research in the NZRECE Journal
- Personal techniques for giving a good presentation to a group of people at a meeting or conference
- History Archives on ECE
- ECE services paid funding twice and get to keep the money
- Kindergarten Committees dismissed - Auckland Kindergarten Chief Executive takes power and money from kindergartens
- Auckland Kindergarten Association Should be Treated by Government Differently says AKA Vice President
- Promoting Participation and Boosting the Number of Children in ECE - Government Schemes
- Parent Employment & Childcare Use Articles
- The UK's Millennium Cohort Longitudinal Study
- Germany Introduces Payment for Parents to Have a Financial Choice Not to Be in Paid Employment and Use Childcare/ECE
- Making Choices: Contradictions and Commonalities in the Valuing of Caring and Working by Government Policy and First Time Mothers
- The Impact of Maternal Employment on Child Wellbeing - What We Can Learn from UK and USA Research
- Who Cares for Baby? Women's Preferences: First Time Mothers and their Decisions About Infant/baby Care
- Inquiry into the Use and Quality of ECE for Children Under Two Years
- Engaging with Families and Communities: OECD Recommendations
- The 'Family Partnership Model' in NZ - Implications for Policy and Funding
- All Together Now – Family Learning Sessions in Early Years Education
- What is in the Best Interests and Rights of Children: A Mother's View
- A Stay-at-home Mum's Experience
- A Social Commentator's Look at Child Poverty and ECE
- A Stay-at-home Dad, Using Centre and Home-based Care
- What the Research Says about ECE Effects and the Influence of Parents/Families on Development and Educational Outcomes
- Parents as the Amateurs (or not) in their Child's Early Learning
- Funding Policies, Practices & Effects
- Proposal 5: Fund ECE Services on the Basis of Standards (e.g. Qualified Teachers, Ratios, Group/Class Size & Social Diversity)
- Proposal 1: Targeting Funding to What Parents Earn and Funding the User (not the service)
- Proposal 7: GST exemption as a possible golden bullet
- Proposal 6: Ways to Improve the Efficiency of the ECE Funding System
- Establishing Early Childhood Education as a 'Social Obligation' for Parents
- Proposal 4: Bulk Funding Support for Small and Community Centres
- Proposal 2: Give Parents Choice Not to Use Childcare and Choice in the Hours of ECE Enrolment
- Proposal 3: Changing the Frequent Absence Rule to Support ECE Centres to Provide Places for Vulnerable Children
- Proposal 8: Equity Funding and Access to Transport to ECE etc for Disadvantaged and Vulnerable Children
- Profit Driven Early Childhood Education in NZ
- The Place of the Business Sector in Early Childcare and Education
- Empirical Research on the Impacts of a New Policy Giving Parents the Childcare Money or Early Childhood Education Funding for their Child
- Learning from the Netherlands and its approach to ECE Policy
- Research into What Happens When More Childcare/ECE is Made Available (Even With a Price Attached)
- Funding Cutbacks in Teacher-Led Services with 80% or more Qualified Staff: Perspectives and Consequences
- Political Party Policies / Election Views
- Political Party Early Childhood Education Election Promises 2017
- Budget 2015 Expectations for Early Childhood Education
- Overseas example of policy to support children AND families recognising that families have the strongest influence on children's early learning and development
- Political party 2014 Election promises for ECE and families
- Compare Party Policies by Topic/Subject (2011)
- Party Policies for Early Childhood Education Going into the 2011 Election
- Budget 2011 and Early Childhood Education
- Commentary on the ECE Taskforce 2011 Report "Amazing Children"
- Government ECE Taskforce - The Meaning of this for Early Childhood Education (2010/11)
- Politicians Views on Parenting and ECE
- 2008 Regulations: Closed Door Sleep-Room Requirement
- Early Childhood Policy Going into the 2008 Election
- Likely Consequences of the 20 Hour Free Early Childhood Education Policy (2007)
- Labour Party & National Party Early Childhood Policies 2005
- Motivations behind Increasing Government Investment in ECE
- Sector Issues & Concerns
- Personal stories of bullying in early childhood education
- Targeted Funding privacy concerns and risks
- Questions Hanging Over the Update of Te Whāriki
- The Ministry of Education complaints system for early childhood education
- How Much Should We Value ERO Reviews of ECE Services?
- Poverty and Unravelling the Costs of Poverty for Children Under 5 Years
- “People Still Think of Us as Babysitters” - Sexism and What's in a Name?
- Today's Policy and Funding Challenges in Providing a Great Early Education For Kids
- Kindergartens Change from Sessional Preschool to All-day Licences
- More than 50 children permitted - why and what this means for group sizes
- Commissioner for Children's Inquiry into the Non-Parental Care and Education of Children Under Two Years
- Public-Professional Barriers to Breastfeeding
- Just Do It! Motivating You to Speak Up
- What age is best to start school in NZ? The evidence and practical pros and cons of lowering the age or increasing it
- Using Research to Sell Policy and Mislead Parents and Educators
- Space in ECE Services and Avoiding Overcrowding, Stress, and an Environment in Which Learning is Difficult for Children
- Curriculum matters & Theories
- Integrating New Zealand sign language into our ECE settings – how teachers can help
- Scientific learning in early childhood education – what can we teachers do to support this?
- Do You Allow (Or Even Encourage) Gun Play?
- Te Whariki Early Childhood Curriculum Review and How it Compares to the Early Years Framework for Australia
- Using ICT as Part of Children's Learning: What One Kindergarten Did
- Appropriate Ways to Introduce and Use ICT with Children and Questions to Consider
- Sign Language and Signing for Babies and Toddlers
- Co-construction, Problem-Solving, Scaffolding and Hypothesising: Super Teaching for Super Success
- "Putting the Cog into Cognitive": Theories to Put into Practice When Teaching Young Children
- An Example of Child Directed Learning
- Pikler and Gerber Theories: Putting Ideas into Practice and Questions / Issues
- The iPad and other Tablets: Handy Technology for Learning and What to Consider
- The Importance of Fun in the Learning Process
- Helping a Preschool Child Learn Pre-Reading Skills
- It all Comes Out in the Wash! Teaching Style and Thinking About The Kind of Teacher You Are
- The importance of a play-based approach - Helping young learners to flourish
- Self Review: How You Can Work Smarter, Not Harder for Best Practice
- Literacy Learning and Teaching Essentials to Know
- Men Who Change Nappies, Change the World
- Concept Mapping with 3- to 6-year olds to Support Meaningful Learning
- Activities and play ideas
- Caring for a pet/ orphan lamb
- Aircraft, geography and ICT – Interest children in all 3 of these things
- Rhythm Ribbons : A Teacher's Learning Story on Using Ribbons to Promote Children's Physical Activity
- Teaching Culture and Cultural Learning in Early Childhood Education
- Make Pet Rocks - A Great Craft and Gift Making Idea With Children
- Teaching Pre-schoolers Sports
- Baking with Children and Going For ‘Slow Cooking’
- Make a Volcano
- Fresh Play Ideas for Winter and Rainy Day Activities - Including Outings and Science Experiments
- Take a Trip to the Farm Park
- Take a Trip to the Zoo
- Edible Gardens - A Valuable Resource for Early Childhood Teaching and Learning
- Take a Trip to the Library
- Heuristic Play and Treasure Baskets
- Plant and Growing Activities - For Science, Art, and Making Presents
- Take a Trip to an Art Gallery
- Sandpit ideas for extending play and turning it into an amazing social hub for learning
- Take a Trip to the Beach
- Take a Trip to the Museum
- Laughter & Humour in Our Relationships with Children and in the Workplace
- Sun Protection and Learning Activities for Teaching About Being Safe in the Sun (songs, art & craft, science, drama etc)
- Help Children Develop a Love for Learning Languages from a Young Age
- Easter Ideas and Fun Activities
- Playdough Best Recipes and Making the Fun Last
- Exposing Children to [Real] Art
- Books Children Prefer
- Colouring-in Books and Drawing Templates
- Assessment inspiration and debates
- Online Portfolios: Our centre's journey from paper to screen
- How is it Possible to Know From Your Observations What Children Learn?
- Documenting your teaching and learning, and an example of a teaching story
- The Learning Story Narrative Approach to Child Assessment and Links to Further Critiques and Research on this Topic
- Are Learning Stories Working? Read and add to the discussion here on this topic
- Reading Readiness: 7 signs that a child is ready to go from listening to reading
- Is 'Child Development' a term we should be using today?
- School Entry Assessments on Children
- Gifted and Talented Children
- Research report: Views, teaching practices, resourcing and administration issues relating to gifted children in NZ early childhood education
- Gifted Children: Feedback on a Survey of the Education of Gifted Children Under 8 Years of Age
- How to identify a child gifted in reading and provide a responsive ECE learning environment
- Workshop Presentations on the topic of Education for Gifted Children in ECE
- The Joy of Having a Young Gifted Child - A Parent's Experience
- Observation and Assessment Methods and Templates
- Gender issues and teaching boys/ girls
- Attachment, Primary Caregiving, Grief and Disasters
- Death of a child or other adult at the service - supporting children
- Death of a pet at the service or at home
- Grief - responding to a grieving child and questions about death and dying
- Implementing primary caregiving at your service - How to do this effectively
- Effects of Natural Disasters, Evacuation and Separation from Parents on Children and How ECE Teachers and Services Can Help
- Supporting Parent-Child Attachment: How to identify when there are attachment problems and strategies to help
- What a Primary Caregiving System is in ECE and Q&A on Issues
- Health, Safety, Sleep, Nutrition, Illness, Nappies, etc
- Picky Eaters and managing children's eating habits
- Nappies – The Options and what's best to use in early childhood services
- Supervision skills all teachers should have for child safety
- Administering medicine including painkillers such as paracetamol
- Infant sleep practices and policies: Steps to reduce the risk of a baby dying at an ECE Service
- Sleep, Nap and Rest Times for Children (and staff rest breaks)
- Can a child with HIV or AIDS be excluded from attending an early childhood service?
- Understanding how Daylight Saving Affects Children and What Teachers and Parents Can Do
- “Earthquake… Quick, Turtle drop” - Reflections and Discussion about what is Best Practice
- Guide to reducing the Risk of children Choking on Food
- When a Child Has a Nose Bleed for No Apparent Reason
- Tips for Enjoying Fireworks Safely and also for Helping Children Keep their Pets Safe
- Best Ways to Protect Children's Skin, Eyes, and Health from the Harmful Effects of the Sun
- Vaccination requirements and the basics of what you need to know and be aware of
- Training Children to Settle Themselves to Sleep - Should We Support Controlled Crying?
- Cough and Cold Medicines for Young Children - Problems & Recommendations
- Technology Warnings - 3D Movies/TVs, Eco-bulbs & Fluorescent Lighting, Mobile Phones
- Head Lice and Nits - Prevention and Best Treatment
- Supporting mums in expressing breastmilk and managing reactions of other parents
- When Parents Insist on Unwell Children Attending
- Helping children to eat healthily and get active - the Healthy Heart Award scheme
- Training, Qualification Issues, and Professional Development
- Teacher Certification Folder how to and sorting out mentoring
- Best Evidence Synthesis report on The Characteristics of Quality Teaching in NZ (Early Foundations)
- Increasing Student Teacher Success by Socioculturally Appropriate Support
- The Place of Travel in Teachers' Professional Development
- Does Training Make a Difference for Understanding Pedagogy? The Perspectives of Semi-trained and Degree Qualified Teachers
- The Experiences of Newly Qualified Early Childhood Teachers and their Professional Development and Support Needs
- Is it a Disaster or a Blessing to Have Non Qualified Teachers Working with Children?
- Using Te Reo Maori in Teaching Practice and Learning Te Reo During Your Teacher Education Programme
- Recognition of Overseas Qualifications and the Value that Overseas Trained Teachers Can Add
- Getting More Out of Practicums and Field Based Training: Recommendations from Research for Student Teachers, Centres, and Lecturers
- Do Qualified Teachers Equal Quality for Kids?
- Why would a Qualified Teacher want to do more study?
- Employment & Working Conditions
- Unpaid work and getting paid for what you do
- Pay reviews and negotiating pay
- Domestic violence leave - Information for Early Childhood Teachers and Staff
- Non-contact time – your entitlements, how much teachers can need and why
- Lunch and rest breaks - what early childhood staff are entitled to and what if you don't get these
- Relieving Work – What you need to know if you are a reliever or thinking of doing this
- Volunteers – ECE Workplaces risk breaking the law when relying on free labour
- Back from Holidays? Here are 7 Tips to Ease Back into the Swing of Things
- When Adults Do Not Count Toward the Regulated Minimum Adult:Child Ratios and How to Respond If You Think Minimum Regulations are Breached
- Scholarships, Grants and Help with Meeting Course Costs, etc.
- Job Interview Preparation and Questions
- Getting a Job in an ECE Service
- What to Wear and How to Dress as a Man or Woman Teacher of Young Children
- On Being a Home-based Educator: The Joys, the Disappointments, and Why One Educator Knows She Has Made the Right Job Choice
- Making a Good Job Application - CV or Resume
- Hearing loss or ringing or buzzing in your ears? How to tell and what to do
- What's the English Proficiency Requirement for Teacher Registration?
- Graduates may be Refused Provisional Registration if their Initial Teacher Education is Not Up to Scratch
- Teaching Overseas or Coming to NZ to Work? Some information that may help you not to be disadvantaged
- Inspiring People and Diverse Careers
- Advocate of Bilingual and Bicultural Education (Elizabeth Pakai's story)
- Christian Early Childhood Education Leader (Alison Ford's Story)
- Early Intervention Trust Coordinator (Victoria Crone's story)
- Playcentre Campaigner and Association Manager (Laine Barker's story)
- Centre Manager and Advocate for Community-Based ECE (Wendy Ure's story)
- Researcher, Academic and Children's Advocate (Prof Anne B Smith's story)
- Manager of an ECE Centre for Teenage Parents and Former President of a Childcare Lobby & Teacher Education Group (Heather Te Huia's story)
- Preschool Owner and Director (Heather Anderson's story)
- Plunket Community Development Manager (Claire Rumble's story)
- Teacher Education Director (Sue Cherrington's story)
- Director Of One of Britain's Largest Studies of Children and their Families (Professor Heather Joshi's story)
- Centre Environmental Designer and Centre Owner (Robin Christie's Story
- Quality of ECE - Research & Theory
- Quality in Time and Space: Defining ‘Quality’ in a Canadian Context (10 Years After the Original European Document on Quality)
- Quality Assurance: Whose Quality and Whose Assurance?
- The Production of 'Worthwhile' Knowledge about 'Quality' in Early Years Education
- What Use are Policy Requirements for Quality When the Ministry or Government Waters Down or Changes These?
- The Descriptive Quality of Different Types of Centres: Kindergarten, Kohanga Reo, Childcare, and Playcentre
- Constructions of Quality in Early Childhood Services (PhD thesis)
- Application of 'Quality' Criteria to Different Early Childhood Services
- Government Introduction of Quality Standards through Charters: Reactions and Impact
- Conference Research Presentations
- Effects of ECE on Children - Research
- How ECE influences student performance in literacy, maths and science at school
- Staff must be ECE Diploma or Degree Qualified for Children to Benefit from Attending ECE
- The children that benefit and those that don't from participation in early childcare education
- Can ECE help to close the gaps between children from advantaged and disadvantaged homes - reducing educational inequalities
- Australian research showing family contribution is more influential than participation in ECE on a child's outcomes
- Being in childcare / early childhood education increases the odds of children being overweight
- The Abecedarian Intervention Project discussion of results and limitiations for generalising the findings to NZ and other population groups
- The NZ Competent Children Research Study. A Flagship for Public Policy and Spending in ECE
- "Assessing the Evidence on Early Childhood Education": A Systematic Review of the Best Research Evidence
- Survey Reports and NZ ECE Data
- ECE Sector Survey May 2014
- Optimism in the Early Childhood Education Sector (end of 2013 findings)
- ECE Sector Satisfaction with Government Policy and Practices - October 2013 Survey
- Teacher Turnover Rates and Adult-Child Ratios in NZ Early Childhood Education Care Centres and Kindergartens
- Early Childhood Education Sentiment Survey for June 2013
- ECE Sector Survey May 2013
- The State of the Early Childcare and Education Sector in 2012 and Outlook for 2013
- 2012 Education Statistics on Children, Adults, Services and Government Expenditure on ECE and Noteworthy Changes
- Time for Men to Be Invited into Early Childhood Teaching: The Findings of a National Survey
- 2011 ECE Statistics on Children, Staffing, Services, Quality, Spending & Cost
- A Report on Reactions to a Change in Licensing to Increase Child Numbers in Centres
- The State of Early Childhood Education, 2011 Report
- The State of Early Childhood Education, 2010 Report
- What Government Should do for Children and ECE, 2011 Report
- Transitions: Home-ECE-school
- Telling Parents Only What They Want to Hear About Their Child - Should We Be Covering Up the Truth?
- Transition to School Programmes in ECE Centres and What Teachers Can Do to Support Children Starting School
- Starting School - Parents' Views on What Helps to Make the Transition Go Well
- Children Attending More than One Early Childhood Service
- Returning to Work Can be a Hard Decision But Should Parents Worry About How Childcare May Harm their Child's Development?
- Transition to ECE and Strategies to Help Settle a Child and Ease the Stress
- Social Skills & Behaviour Management
- When a Child's Behaviour Interferes with Your Ability to Provide a Safe and Educational Environment for All Children - Terminating Enrolment and Exclusion
- Apologising - Asking a Child to Say Sorry and Consequences
- Giving Children Choices: How to do this in ECE and strategies for getting the best outcomes
- Behavioural Disorders, Child Medication and Issues for Parents, Teachers and Early Childhood Services
- Mindfulness and Awareness Techniques We Can Use With Children to Help Keep Healthy and Emotionally Strong
- Learning from Disabled Children, Families and the Role Early Childhood Professionals Can Play
- Disabilities and Special Health & Learning Needs
- Supporting children with additional needs - help for teachers
- Disability From a Child's Perspective and What We Can Learn From Children/People with Disabilities
- Oppositional Defiant Disorder
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Helping Very Young Children with ADHD
- Asperger's Syndrome - Early Signs and Suggestions for Supporting a Young Child with Asperger's
- Asthma Signs, Treatment and the ECE Environment for Asthmatic Children
- Diabetes and Helping Children Manage Diabetes
- Eczema - Itchy, Dry, Red, Scaly Skin: How to Help A Young Child (and what teachers need to know too)
- Children with Disabilities in ECE and How an Education Support Worker Can Help
- Autism (ASD): Caring for and Teaching a Child with Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Children with Sensory Integration Disorder Experience of ECE
- Communication and Advertising
- Preparing a press release to get free publicity for your service
- Marketing your childcare service with very little cost
- Marketing outside products and services to your families
- Bruce Springsteen Look-a-Like Contest Helps to Publicise Early Childhood Service
- Code for Comparative Advertising & Truthful Presentation: The Story of Kindercare's Battle for Market Share from Another Large Private Childcare Chain
- Building Your Networks
- Advertising for Staff Successfully Without Spending Money
- Employer Guides and Help - click here to view more articles
- Staff Wages and Employee Benefits Guide 2020 - 2021
- The Disciplinary Process, Policy template, Giving Warnings and Templates for Letters
- The ECE Employer's Guide to Employing and Managing Staff
- Fostering Teamwork Within Your Team
- Job Description Templates for various ECE positions
- TLC for Managers and Leaders and Looking After Yourself
- Paying staff for work outside of normal work hours
- Effective Leadership and Learning to Share the Load
- Pay reviews - why, when, how and links to performance reviews
- Using the Internet in Ways to Benefit Your Staff and Service
- Meal and rest breaks - legal requirements and issues
- Probationary period or 90-day trial period for new staff - Which should you use?
- Union rights, staff rights and duties of the ECE service provider
- Domestic violence leave early childhood service provider employer advice
- Relievers - Finding, paying and managing relief staff
- Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender staff – how to be an inclusive early childhood education employer
- Salary and Wage Earners and Maximum Hours of Work
- Redundancy - the Process and How to Avoid Problems
- Annual holiday leave entitlements, carrying over, cashing up and pay-as-you-go
- Performance Appraisal of Teachers - Worksheets & Guidance
- Staffing at the Beginning and End of the Day and 'Person Responsible' Requirements
- Performance Appraisal of Managers and Coordinators - Worksheets and Guidance
- Employment of Men in Early Childhood Teaching
- Free Childcare and Fringe Benefit Tax Implications
- A Case For Why Men are Needed in Childcare and Teaching
- Faking sickness or staff who need to take unscheduled time off work
- Staff Late for Work? How to Manage Problem Behaviour
- Interview Questions for Applicants for a Teaching Position
- Allegations made against a staff member - how to manage this
- Mandatory reporting of teachers to the Teaching Council and confidential exit agreements
- Review and Evaluation
- Internal evaluation and how to get a good ERO review
- Audits - Internal and external audits and guidance for doing these
- Two Case Studies of Centres that Successfully Completed Self-Review
- Record Keeping and Retention of Electronic and Paper Reports - Requirements of the Ministry of Education, Auditors, ERO, IRD and Charities Commission
- Self-Review - Working Smarter, Not Harder for Best Practice
- Beyond Regulatory Standards and Expectations to Building Quality
- Financial Management
- Funding breakdown for pay increases - test what impact pay rises would have
- Improving the financial outlook of your service after the Covid shock
- Exploiting 20 Hours ECE funding during holidays
- 20 Funding Questions You Asked and Answers by the Ministry of Education
- Ministry of Education financial audit of your service - tips on how to prepare for it
- Cashflow management tips
- Targeted Funding amount per child and ways to capitalise on the funding
- 20 Hours ECE Casual Change of Permanent Booking Administration
- Preparing your Special Purpose Annual Financial Reports for the Ministry of Education
- Differences between a Statement of Financial Performance and a Receipts and Payments Report
- Frequently Asked Questions on Financial Accounting and Audits
- Arranging finance - short term lending to bring forward your service's next bulk funding payment
- Glossary of Financial and Accounting Terms & Jargon for Early Childhood Education Centres and Services
- Reducing the risk of fraud by staff and parents
- Does Your ACC Bill Seem Much Too High? What You Can Do To Try To Bring the Amount Down
- Responding to Parents’ Wishes to Bargain Over Fees and Other Charges
- Inland Revenue clarifies for parents and services Rules around when an ECE payment is a donation or not
- About the Various Accounting Reports - About Profitability, Cash Flow, Budgets, Performance, Receipts & Payments, etc.
- How to Increase revenue and reduce spare capacity
- Charging Parents for Late Pick-ups and Early Drop-offs
- Birth Certificates and Accurate Child Enrolment Records
- Tips for Aligning Your Early Childhood Service to Government Goals and Being Politically Strategic
- Free Checklist Looking at Money Management and Accounting
- Charging Fees on Statutory Holidays and Days when the Service is Closed
- WINZ Subsidy Payment - Managing Arrears in Fees and Improving Cashflow
- Saving Some of Your Income & Building Up Reserves for Special Projects or Financial Security
- Change in What Can Be Included in 20Hour ECE Optional Charges
- Fundraising: A Guide for all Early Childhood Services
- Funding Rates, Subsidies and Grants Available
- Health and Safety Management
- Manual Handling Training to Reduce Staff Injuries & Promote Worker Safety
- What did you say? I can’t hear you. I’m cuddling a circular saw!
- Risk assessment of playgrounds and children's activities: Or, “why tree climbing is not banned by the Health and Safety at Work Act”
- Food Act - What you need to know and do
- Electrical testing
- Flooding: What to do during floods
- HIV and AIDS - Guidelines for Early Childhood Education Services
- First Aid Qualifications for ECE and Providers of Training
- Power Cut: What to do when there is no electricity
- The Sandpit - Health and Safety Considerations
- Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 as it applies to Centres and Homebased
- Sun Protection for Children and Staff: Management responsibilities and problems
- Food Allergy Management and Meeting Children's Needs
- Emergency - Your Centre Can't Remain Open but You Want/Need to Continue Providing for Children
- Noise control and hearing protection - your service's legal responsibilities
- Noise control methods and practical things you can do to reduce harmful noise levels
- Indoor & Outdoor Improvement
- Artificial Turf vs. Natural Grass – A growing concern as to what to go for and problems
- Organising Space and Ideas for Room Arrangement and Layout
- Bathroom Space Planning and Toilets
- Sandpits - What Makes for a Good Sandpit
- Shade in Centres and Planning Considerations for Sun Protection & Child Learning
- Optimal Outdoor Environments for Children in ECE Centres and Homes
- Policy guide, templates and checklists
- Centre Operating Procedures for Covid-19 Alert Level 3 HS7 Appendix 9
- Preventing 'escapes' and keeping children safe and secure policy
- Lockdown Policy and Procedures
- What policies a service legally must have
- Hazard Identification and Safety Management Daily Checklist
- Child Protection Policy [Template]
- How to write a policy and a template
- Social Media Policy
- Collection of Children in Cases of Parental Separation and Disclosure of Information about a Child
- ECE Service Blogs - tools and policy
- Sun Protection Policy Information and Template
- Immunisation Certificates and Register
- Parent and whanau forms & docs
- Community ECE Governance Guide
- Business Structures for ECE Services and Broad Legal Requirements
- No more time-wasting committee meetings
- Nurturing New Blood and Mentoring New Board or Committee Members
- Building Enthusiasm and Commitment Among Committee Members
- 'Conflicts of Interest'
- Governance Training and Building Governance Capacity
- 'Management' and 'Governance' - What's the difference?
- Managing relationships from the top-down and vice versa
- Child Protection
- When a Child Tells: Responding to a Child’s Disclosure of Abuse
- Female teacher sexual abusive of children: The factors which supported this in a Childcare Centre
- Safety checking of centre owners, teachers, homebased educators, relievers, students, researchers, etc.
- What Can Parents Do to Protect and Support their Child to Disclose Sexual Abuse?
- Body Safety Skills to Teach Children
- What can ECE services, visiting officials, and teacher education providers do to safeguard children from abuse in an ECE service?
- Confidentiality agreements and ability of staff suspected of child abuse to have this covered up
- Should Men Change Children's Nappies?
- A Parent writes: My son's daycare is covering up abuse
- Touching, lifting and handling, and physical contact with children
- Trusted and Liked Preschool Teacher Takes Indecent Pictures of Children to Share Online
- Values-based interviewing as part of safety checking staff and others at your early childhood service
- Setting Up a New Service - Perspectives
- Research Journals
- NZ Research in ECE Journal, Volume 17 (2014)
- NZ Research in ECE Journal Volume 16 (2013)
- NZ Research in ECE Journal Volume 15 (2012)
- NZ Research in ECE Journal Volume 8 (2005)
- NZ Research in ECE Journal Volume 7 (2004)
- NZ Research in ECE Journal Volume 6 (2003)
- NZ Research in ECE Journal Volume 5 (2002)
- NZ Research in ECE Journal Volume 4 (2001)
- NZ Research in ECE Journal Volume 3 (2000)
- NZ Research in ECE Journal Volume 1 (1997/8)
- NZ Research in ECE Journal Volume 2 (1999)
- NZ Research in ECE Journal Volume 13 (2010)
- NZ Research in ECE Journal Volume 12 (2009)
- NZ Research in ECE Journal Volume 11 (2008)
- NZ Research in ECE Journal Volume 10 (2007)
- NZ Research in ECE Journal Volume 9 (2006)
- NZ Research in ECE Journal Volume 14 (2011)
- 2012 NZRECE Journal Articles
- Solo Fathers with Young Children and their Social Needs
- “It Pushes You ..”: .Field-based EC Teacher Education
- Cultural-Historical Borderlands: ...Early Childhood Community
- Effective Support for Student Teachers
- Early Childhood Practitioners ..Making Sense of the Research Process
- Brooke’s Day: One Child’s Experience in ECE
- Being Agreeable?... IP Groups in Early Intervention
- Children as Teachers: ...Opportunities for Children to Share Expertise
- Shared Language of Coping: ...Parents and Preschool Children
- Characteristics of Optimal Outdoor Environments ...
- Airplane Grows in the Tummy of Clouds..
- Embedding Literacy in an Early Childhood Education Programme: A Look into Montessori
- It is Difficult to Review ...
- 2013 NZRECE Journal Articles
- Undertaking Action Research Informed by Kaupapa Māori in Early Childhood Education
- Talking with Children in Prams and Supermarket Trolleys While Shopping
- The Experiences of Overseas-born, Ethnic Minority Early Childhood Pre-service Teachers in New Zealand
- Field-Based Students Experiences of Mentoring When on Teaching Practicum
- Observation - An Effective Research Tool or a Rude Intrusion?
- Kei Tua o te Pae Analysis
- 2015 NZRECE Journal Articles
- “It made me argue more confidently and I can stand by my words”: Beginning teachers’ perspectives about mentoring, goal setting, and leadership during teacher registration
- Supported playgroup located on school grounds: Developing family relationships within a school environment to support children’s transition to school
- Index for the NZ Research in ECE Journal, 2015, Volume 18
- Children’s visual art experiences
- “It is a risk, but it is a risk worth taking”: Early childhood teachers’ reflections on review of practice using an approach of practical philosophy
- Advocating for a comprehensive approach to assessment in New Zealand early childhood education
- Early childhood education: Fracture lines of social context and neural development (Te Whariki curriculum)
- 2014 Special Policy Issue
- Mapping Policies and Pathways in Early Childhood Education: A Note from Aotearoa New Zealand
- The State of Play in Early Childhood Policy: A Note from Australia
- Early Childhood Care and Education Policy: Ireland Country Note
- Children's Participation in Disaster Risk Reduction as Curriculum
- Parents’ Choices of Child Care in Australia
- Breach of Trust - Getting it Right for Children in Early Childhood Care and Education in Ireland
- Play and the professional early childhood teacher: A personal reflection
- Negotiating Policy-Driven and State-Mandated Expectations of Leadership: Discourses Accessed by Early Childhood Educators in Australia
- Early Intervention in Aotearoa New Zealand: Services and Challenges
- Supporting Participation of Indigenous Families in Early Childhood Education
- The Relationship between Early Childhood Education and Care and English Proficiency at School Entry for Bilingual Children in Australia
- NZ-International Research in ECE Journal - Details for Authors
- Peer Review Policy Statement
- Publication Ethics
- Journal Editorial Teams and Reviewers
- Articles and List of Contents of All Early Childhood Journal Issues
- Call for Papers for the Forthcoming Issue of the NZ International Research in ECE Journal
- Author Instructions for Submitting a Manuscript to the Journal
- 2016 NZRECE Journal Articles
- Visible difference: Photostory as capacity building, research and evaluation method
- Whose decision is it? Unpacking shared decision-making as a component of partnership in New Zealand early childhood education centres
- Whiteness scholarship in early childhood education
- Index for the NZ Research in ECE Journal, 2016, Volume 19
- Early childhood science exploration: A vehicle for inclusive practices
- A whole school approach to language development in the early years: Professional development in action
- Changing roles and responsibilities: The development of coaching in early intervention education settings
- Removing socio-economic barriers to participation in early childhood education: Is current policy in Aotearoa New Zealand effective?
- 2017, NZIRECE Journal, No. 1
- Making inclusion happen in early childhood setting: Excepts from success stories
- Index for the NZ-International Research in ECE Journal, 2017, Volume 20(1)
- A multi-dimensional approach to pedagogical development in long day care centres
- Developing curriculum for the early years: A perspective from Bangladesh
- Creating an early childhood curriculum pathway for sustaining indigenous Fijian cultural knowledges
- Te Whāriki: Curriculum or philosophy
- Children as photographers: Joyful exploration
- 2017, NZIRECE Journal, No. 2, Special Issue
- Field-based early childhood student teachers – who are they and what challenges do they face?
- Advancing early childhood educators’ access to professional learning in gifted and talented education
- Early childhood teachers’ emotional labour
- Index for the NZ-International Research in ECE Journal, Vol 20(2)
- Retaining early childhood teachers: What factors contribute to high job satisfaction in early childhood settings in Australia?
- 2018, NZIRECE Journal, No. 1.
- Increasing early childhood education enrolment and attendance rates
- Index for the NZ-International Research in ECE Journal, Volume 21, No. 1
- Preschool teachers’ and parents’ perspectives on primary school preparation in Singapore
- Reconciling perspectives on quality in New Zealand early childhood services
- Effective transition to school: Integrating philosophy, pedagogy and curriculum
- Primary school entry assessment in New Zealand
- Where are the men in Jamaica’s early childhood classrooms? The experiences of those who choose to teach young children
- Can early years’ practitioners facilitate social development during conflicts between young children?
- Early childhood educator perceptions of children’s physical activity and the outdoors
- 2018, NZIRECE Journal, No. 2
- STEM in Early Childhood Education: Using the inquiry approach to scaffold learning
- Generic or specific? Deciphering the New Zealand approach to professional standards for early childhood
- Early childhood educators’ and parents’ perspectives of literacy for children under three: An exploratory study
- Index for the NZ Research in ECE Journal, 2018, Volume 21, No. 2
- Is there an optimum age for starting school in New Zealand?
- Building early childhood educators’ capacity to apply a strengths approach to working with vulnerable families and children
- Exploring early childhood teachers’ beliefs and practices in emergent literacy: Does practice vary by the socioeconomic status of the children?
- 2019, NZIRECE Journal, No. 1
- Should we consider rhizomatic thinking when educating young minds?
- Supporting parents to use schema theory to understand and manage challenging behaviour in the home
- Embedding parents’ perspectives in the discourse for quality education and care in the early years
- Advanced empathy in the early years - a risky strength?
- Factors influencing the use of digital technology in early childhood education
- Neoliberalism and post-colonialism in conflict: Hybridisation in early childhood in the South Pacific
- Researching pedagogies for sustainability in Australian bush kinder: A reflective analysis on a framework and methodologies
- Index for the NZ Research in ECE Journal, 2019, Volume 22, No. 1
- 2019, NZIRECE Journal No. 2
- Nurturing the learning and development of children who are refugees
- Prioritising the development of spirituality in early childhood education and care
- Screens or no screens: Understanding young children’s use of digital technologies
- Index for NZ International Research in ECE Journal, Vol 22, No. 2
- Early childhood educators’ workplace well-being: A case for using self-determination theory to understand and support workplace well-being in early childhood services
- Affordability of quality early childhood education and care
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