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- 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
- Parent Survey tool for ECE Services and report
- The NZ Parent Guide to Childcare and Education Services (Birth to 6 Years) - Free booklet to print
- 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
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- Costs to Parents of Using a Licensed Centre or Home-based Service
- Costs of making your own personal childcare arrangements
- The funding each service gets per child per hour (20 Hour and 30 Hour subsidy rates)
- News - Latest NZ News
- Opening up about teacher bullying in the early childhood sector
- Labour’s election policy for early childhood education
- 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
- Five percent of teachers in ECE to be men within 5 years - Minister Nikki Kaye and the Ministry will find it difficult to not be accountable
- 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
- What is actually behind some services having staffing problems
- Winners of the Children's Book Christmas Giveaway
- 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
- New Consumer Affairs Guide on Safe Products for Babies and Children and Home Safety
- 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
- Report on Canterbury EC Services Experiences Post Earthquakes
- 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 Christchurch 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
- Better Guidance on How to Decrease the Risk of Food-Related Choking in Young Children
- 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
- Christchurch To Lose Early Childhood Teacher Training Provider
- 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
- Weekly Update - Early Childhood Education Alert
- Early Childhood Alert No. 19, 2017
- Early Childhood Alert No. 18, 2017
- Early Childhood Alert No. 17, 2017
- Early Childhood Alert No. 16, 2017
- Early Childhood Alert No. 15, 2017
- Early Childhood Alert No. 14, 2017
- Early Childhood Alert No. 13, 2017
- Early Childhood Alert No. 12, 2017
- Early Childhood Alert No. 11, 2017
- Early Childhood Alert No. 10, 2017
- Early Childhood Alert No. 9, 2017
- Flooding Emergency and other advice and info for ECE people and services
- Early Childhood Alert No. 7, 2017
- Early Childhood Alert No. 6, 2017
- Early Childhood Alert No. 4, 2017
- Early Childhood Alert No. 3, 2017
- Early Childhood Alert No. 2, 2017
- 2017 New Year Early Childhood Education Checklist
- Early Childhood Alert, No 26, 2016
- Early Childhood Alert, No 25, 2016
- Early Childhood Alert, No 24, 2016
- Early Childhood Alert, No 23, 2016
- Early Childhood Alert, No 22, 2016
- Early Childhood Alert, No 21, 2016
- Early Childhood Alert, No 15, 2016
- Early Childhood Alert, No 14, 2016
- Early Childhood Alert, No 13, 2016
- Early Childhood Alert, No 12, 2016
- Early Childhood Alert, No 11, 2016
- Early Childhood Alert, No 10, 2016
- Early Childhood Alert, No 9, 2016
- Early Childhood Alert, No 8, 2016
- Early Childhood Alert, No. 7, 2016
- Early Childhood Alert, No. 6, 2016
- Early Childhood Alert, No. 5, 2016
- 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!)
- Early Childhood Alert, No 16, 2016
- Early Childhood Alert, No 17, 2016
- Early Childhood Alert, No 18, 2016
- Early Childhood Alert, No 19, 2016
- Early Childhood Alert, No 20, 2016
- Events coming up and reports
- Education Leaders Forum 2017 Early Childhood Education Speaker Presentation
- Symposium on Men who Teach Young Children
- National Early Childhood Management Forum, May 2015
- The ECE Management National Forum 2016
- 8th National Summit on Men in Early Childhood Teaching and Care
- National Early Childhood Management Forum (May 2013)
- Calendar of Conferences and Events in 2017
- 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
- Where I can say who I want to change my nappy
- Smacking is it helpful or harmful to children? Major new study findings released
- Why put a ban on unvaccinated children at childcare centres and early childhood education?
- 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
- Books and Book Reviews
- 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 they be allowed in early childhood education and other options
- World Teachers' Day, 6th October
- World Down Syndrome Day 21st March
- The Olympics – Celebrating the Games and Learning for Children
- 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: Activities, Information about the history, and a children's Anzac Biscuit Recipe
- Waitangi Day and ways of including this in planning and the NZ early childhood curriculum
- Shrove Tuesday - Feb 9th in 2016 and Feb 28th 2017
- Halloween and Some Different Ways of Celebrating
- Mother's Day and Father's Day Traditions and Ideas for Marking these Special Days
- Rugby World Cup - Capturing the Interest and teaching tips
- Chinese New Year - Year of the Rooster (Fire Rooster) 2017
- Children's Day: Ways to Mark this Special Day at Home and In Your Early Childhood Service
- Dealing with Diversity in Religion, Family Beliefs and Culture
- 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
- Working with Parents and Families
- Parent newsletters can be used to support children's maths learning by crossing the home-school boundry
- Parents as First Teachers Programme: Family Exit Survey
- Parents as First Teachers: A Descriptive Study of the NZ PAFT Programme
- 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
- Changes and Issues in Parenting
- Becoming More Father Friendly
- Immigrant children and families
- Creating Father Friendly Early Childhood Education Services and Involving Dads
- Engaging with Families - How an Early Childhood Centre Did This
- 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 by Sarah Farquhar
- "A Few Good Men or a Few Too Many?" The Original Massey University Research Study on Male ECE Teachers (1997) by Sarah Farquhar
- 'Of Puppy Dog Tails, Sugar and Spice': Gender Inequality and Discrimination in ECE. A Delta journal article by Sarah Farquhar, 1997
- 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 Male Teacher - 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
- 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
- Children's Gender Development & Learning
- Action-based and Practitioner Research
- Reflective Practice Based Enquiry: Supporting Early Childhood Practitioners to Publish their Research and Develop an Academic Voice
- A simple 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
- 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
- Parents' Choices of Childcare/Early Childhood Education Following the Christchurch Earthquakes
- 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 the Issues
- 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
- How Teachers View Parents and How Parents are Made to Feel
- 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
- 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?
- “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
- Teaching - How, What and Why
- 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
- Ko Tau Rourou Ko Taku Rourou ā Kua Mārama Shared Understandings and Reflection on Wairua
- The iPad and other Tablets: Handy Technology for Learning and What to Consider
- Edible Gardens - A Valuable Resource for Early Childhood Teaching and Learning
- Heuristic Play and Treasure Baskets
- 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
- An Authentic Version of the Concept of Tuakana-Teina dictated by Whakapapa
- 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
- Exposing Children to [Real] Art
- Books Children Prefer
- Colouring-in Books and Drawing Templates
- Activities & Play Ideas - How to articles
- 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
- Rap or Hip Hop to the Beat with Rhyme & Rhythm
- Take a Trip to the Library
- Plant and Growing Activities - For Science, Art, and Making Presents
- Take a Trip to an Art Gallery
- Sandpit Play - Ideas for Extending Play and Making the Sandpit a 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
- Assessment Inspiration, Ideas and Debates
- Changing practice through technology: 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 in the Early Years: Feedback on a Survey of the Education of Gifted Children Under 8 Years of Age
- Gifted in Reading? How to Identify the Gifted Young Reader and Provide a Responsive Learning Environment
- Responding to Gifted Children: Information from Workshop Presentations
- The Joy of Having a Young Gifted Child - A Parent's Experience
- Observation and Assessment Methods and Templates
- Attachment, Transitions & Coping with Major Changes and Natural Disasters
- Death of a child, teacher or other adult at the service - what you can do to help children through a difficult time
- 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 Earthquakes, 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
- Telling Parents Only What They Want to Hear About Their Child - Should We Be Covering Up the Truth?
- Understanding how Daylight Saving Affects Children and What Teachers and Parents Can Do
- Transition to School Programmes in ECE Centres and What Teachers Can Do to Support Children Starting School
- What a Primary Caregiving System is in ECE and Q&A on Issues
- The Impact of the First Major Christchurch Earthquake on a Family and Young Child
- 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
- 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
- Paracetamol, Panadol and Pamol etc - risks, views and administering medicine in ECE services
- 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)
- HIV and AIDS - Exclusion policies and regulations
- Earthquake Safety for Children
- Preventing Serious Food-Related Choking Incidents and How to Reduce the Risk of a Child Choking when Eating
- 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
- Recommended Ways for Protecting Children's Skin, Eyes, and Health from the Harmful Effects of the Sun
- Vaccination Changes and Immunisation Information, Issues, and Help
- 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
- How Breastfeeding Friendly is Your Early Childhood Service?
- When Parents Insist on Unwell Children Attending
- Helping children to eat healthily and get active - the Healthy Heart Award scheme
- Behaviour Management, Friendships & Social Skills
- 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, why choices are important and ideas 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
- Child Abuse, Poverty & Protecting Children
- When a Child Tells: Responding to a Child’s Disclosure of Abuse
- Factors which Came Together in a Childcare Centre to Support a Culture where Sexually Abusive Behaviour Toward Children by a Female Teacher Was Possible
- What Can Parents and Carers Do About Childhood Sexual Abuse?
- Body Safety Skills to Teach Children
- Unravelling the Costs of Poverty for Children Under 5 Years: An interview with John Pearce
- ‘Keeping Ourselves Safe’ Programme in NZ Primary Schools
- Teachers Suspected of Child Abuse and their Ability to Have this Kept Confidential
- Safe from the Start Project for Children Who Have Been Exposed to Violence
- Covering up Child Abuse in Childcare and Early Childhood Education Services
- Touching, lifting and handling, and physical contact with children
- Trusted and Liked Preschool Teacher Takes Indecent Pictures of Children to Share Online
- Disability, Health, and Special Leaning Needs
- 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
- Training, Qualification Issues, and Professional Development
- Induction and Mentoring for the Teacher Certification process – what to do and which way is the right way?
- 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 Do More Study?
- Employment, Working Conditions and Advice
- 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
- Top Advice for Finding and Getting a Job in a Childcare Centre, Kindergarten or other Early Childhood 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
- Union membership, why join NZEI Te Riu Roa, problems staff face and challenges facing the union
- How Safe are Early Childhood Education Workplaces? Survey Results
- The Quality of Early Childhood Centres for Children: Teachers’ Views
- 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
- Winds of change may slam the employment of certificated teachers in early childhood education
- Governance, Leadership & Self Review
- Five Ways to Get the Most out of the Internet for your Teachers and Service
- The Quality Journey: Is There a Leader at the Helm?
- Working Smarter, Not Harder for Best Practice - Self Review
- Early Childhood Organisation/Business Types
- Building in Quality Assurance and Going Above Expectations and Beyond with Quality
- Fostering a ‘Culture of Inquiry’ in your Committee or Board
- Nurturing New Blood and Having Future Board/Committee Members Ready
- Getting the Most Out of Your Board & Committee Members and Building Commitment and Enthusiasm
- Conflicts of Interest
- Governance Training and Building the Board's/Committee’s Governance Capacity
- The Differences between Management and Governance
- Hallmarks of a Good Relationship between the Board/Committee/Owner and the Senior Person Responsible for Management
- Member-only Discounts & Suppliers
- Wooden Play Equipment and Toys - hand crafted
- Māori Resources: Costumes, Piupiu, Rakau, Dolls, Flax Baskets, etc
- Storypark Online Portfolios
- "Early Reading Together" handbook and kit materials for parent workshops
- Finance - short term lending to bring forward your service's next bulk funding payment
- Children's Books - buy at 15% discount and have delivered to your doorstep
- Advertising, Handling the Media and Communication
- Preparing a press release about an event, story or achievement for your service - things to think about and work out first
- Brilliant ideas for marketing and growing your childcare business with very little cost
- Marketing outside products and services to children and families - The issues many ECE services are not aware of
- 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
- Successful Networking and Tips for Building Your Personal and Professional Networks
- Staffing and Employment Relations
- Using relievers in your service
- Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender staff – how to be an inclusive early childhood education employer
- Payment for Students Working at a Centre
- Values-based interviewing as part of safety checking staff and others at your early childhood service
- Salary and Working Hours
- Redundancy - the Process for Making Positions Redundant and How to Avoid Problems
- Annual and Holiday Leave - Minimum Entitlements, Carrying Leave Over, Holiday Pay and Cashing Up
- Staffing at the Beginning and End of the Day and 'Person Responsible' Requirements
- Recruitment and Employment of Men in Early Childhood Teaching, Childcare, Kindergarten and Home-Based Early Childhood Education
- Giving an Employee Free Childcare and Fringe Benefit Tax Implications
- A Case For Why Men are Needed in Childcare and Teaching
- Taking Time off Work: Sickness, Leave, Employment Arrangements & Performance Management
- Staff Late for Work? Read this before you respond or take any action
- Union Entry to the Early Childhood Service Workplace
- Interview Questions that Work Well When Interviewing Applicants for a Teaching Position
- Proficiency in the English Language: What Employers need to Know
- Sick Leave Policy Change and Doctor's Certificate
- Dealing with allegations against a staff member - and ensuring children's safety without falling foul of employment law
- Mandatory reporting of teachers to the Education Council - when and why and what happens if there is a confidential exit agreement
- ERO, Ministry of Edn, Bureaucracy & Record Keeping
- Financial, Accounting, Auditing and Business Operation
- 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
- Glossary of Financial and Accounting Terms & Jargon for Early Childhood Education Centres and Services
- Reducing the risk of fraud by staff, parents or others and creating good internal financial control systems
- 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
- How to Find and Recruit the Best Staff Easily Without Spending Money
- 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, Safety & Technology Management
- Risk assessment of playgrounds and children's activities: Or, “why tree climbing is not banned by the Health and Safety at Work Act”
- Flooding: What to do during floods
- Whistle-blowing policy, employment and staffing practices to better protect children from abuse
- HIV and AIDS - Guidelines for Early Childhood Education Services
- Power Cut: What to Do at Your ECE Service When There is No Electricity
- The Sandpit - Health and Safety Considerations
- Men Should Change Nappies: Don't Restrict this to Female Educators/Staff
- Sun Protection for Children and Staff: What You Need to Know and Frequently Mentioned Issues
- 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 Levels and Legal Responsibility to Protect Child and Adult Hearing in Services
- Noise Level Control and Reduction Measures
- Indoor/ Outdoor Planning & Improvement
- Artificial Turf vs. Natural Grass – A growing concern as to what to go for and problems
- Setting Up, Managing and Working In a Private Preschool
- Home-based Sector Needs and Challenges
- The Essentials You Need to Know About the Requirements for Setting Up a Licensed Home-Based Education Service
- Organising Space and Ideas for Room Arrangement and Layout
- Running a Home-based Service: A Director's View and Practices that Work Well
- Bathroom Space Planning and Toilets
- Sandpits - What Makes For a Good Sandpit
- Shade in Centres and Planning Considerations for Sun Protection, Safety, & Child Learning
- Optimal Outdoor Environments for Children in ECE Centres and Homes
- Building Local Partnerships and Creating Family Support
- Policies, checklists, templates & employment docs
- Hazard Identification and Safety Management Early Childhood Education Service Daily Checklist
- Job Description for a Manager, Director, Supervisor, Senior or Head Teacher
- Waivers and liability for theft, managing child medical conditions, accidents, injury, death and loss
- Parent / Family Exit or Withdrawal Form and Leaving Process
- Child Protection Policy [Template]
- Complaint and Feedback Form for Parents, Caregivers, and Children
- Writing and Developing 'Good' Service Policies
- Staff/Teacher Performance Appraisal Worksheets & Guidance
- Visiting Teacher or Co-ordinator Forms for Recording Home Visits
- Appraisal Worksheets & Guidance for Centre Managers/Directors and Home-based Co-ordinators
- Social Media Policy for your ECE service and issues such as how to handle staff posting on Facebook etc
- Disclosure of Information about a Child and Collection of Children in Cases of Parental Separation
- ECE Service Blogs - tools and policy for safe and educationally appropriate use
- Sun Protection Policy Information and Template for ECE Services
- National Management Forum materials
- Regulations & Rules Updates
- Food Act - What you need to know, do, and why this is one of the great things since sliced bread for ECE
- Health and Safety licensing criteria changes for Home-Based ECE Services Coming into Effect on 24 November 2016
- Safety checking of centre owners, teachers, homebased educators, relievers, students, researchers, etc.
- First Aid Qualification Latest Changes and Providers of ECE Recognised First Aid Qualifications
- Licensing Criteria 2016 Changes for Home-based ECE and Hospital-based services
- Licensing Criteria 2016 Changes for Early Childhood Centres
- Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 as it applies to Early Childhood Education centres and Homebased services
- Child Protection and Worker Safety Checks - New and changed requirements for centres and home-based ECE
- Licensing Criteria 2015 Changes for Home-based, Hospital-based, and Playgroups
- Licensing Criteria 2015 Changes for Education and Care Centres
- Keeping Copies of Children's Immunisation Certificates
- Minimum Age for Adults Employed or Working in ECE
- Moving to a New Building and Licensing
- Resource Management Act Compliance
- Complaints about ECE under the Consumer Guarantees Act
- Parent Obligation to Provide a Completed Immunisation Certificate
- Right of Entry by the Medical Officer for Health
- Responsibility for Child Immunisations
- Research Journals
- 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 ... A Look into Montessori
- It is Difficult to Review the Quality of Education ...
- 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
- Index for the NZ Research in ECE Journal, 2014, Volume 17
- 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
- Author Information
- About 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 settings
- 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
- Te Whāriki: Curriculum or philosophy
- Children as photographers: Joyful exploration
- 2017, NZIRECE Journal, No. 2, Special Issue
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