Teacher Member Posts
Winter and Rainy Day Activities
Winter and Rainy Day Children’s Activities. When the children are getting restless and the noise levels are going up and up and you are thinking about how to get through the day, it’s time to bring in some new ideas […]
Diseases Requiring Children and Adults Not to Be at ECE
Diseases and Conditions Requiring Exclusion of Children and Adults from Coming In Contact with Any Other Person at the ECE Service. Below is a list of the diseases and conditions likely to be passed on to children and to have […]
The Importance of a Play Based Approach
The Play Based Approach – Helping young learners to flourish. The one thing every parent, caregiver and educator wishes most for a young child is to have a happy and fulfilled childhood. What is a Play Based Approach? A play-based approach is […]
Training Children to Settle Themselves to Sleep and Controlled Crying
This article gives clarity to conflicting opinions on Controlled Crying, when and how the Controlled Crying / Controlled Comforting technique should be used, problems with it, and age appropriateness. We also discuss its use in childcare and early childhood services. Suggestions for […]
Service Provider Member Posts
15 Funding and Funding Rule Questions
15 Funding Questions put to the Ministry of Education. Has the MoE considered using the school payroll model to pay teachers? If the government paid the teachers to ratio and gave each centre an ops grant, in a similar fashion […]
First Aid Qualifications and Staffing Requirements – All ECE Services
Number of first aid qualified staff and which staff must be first aid qualified in which services From 26 February 2024, all persons designated the ‘person responsible’ in teacher-led education and care centres, including kindergartens must hold a first aid […]
Governance Training and Capacity
Governance Training. Most board members have little, if any, training on how to govern an early childhood service effectively. They are often volunteers. They may come onto the board thinking their role is merely to support the supervisor or manager and […]
Complying with the Food Act
Complying with the Food Act. All ECE services to whom the Food Act applies must apply for registration (under national programme 2) and be registered before they can provide food to children. Exempt early childhood services An early childhood service […]
Research Library – Today’s Featured Articles
Screens or No Screens: Understanding Young Children’s Use of Digital Technologies
Maya Robinson-Kennedy. Full reference: Robinson-Kennedy, M. (2019). Screens or no screens: Understanding young children’s use of digital technologies. NZ International Research in Early Childhood Education Journal. Special issue presenting early childhood position papers, 22(2), pp. 18 – 25. Page 18 Original […]
Index for the NZ Research in ECE Journal, 2000, Vol 3
The titles, authors and abstracts for papers published in the NZ Research in Early Childhood Education Journal, Volume 3, 2000 are shown below. To view any paper, scroll to the end of this page for copies. The Early Years: Conceptual […]
Characteristics of Optimal Early Childhood Centre Outdoor Environments: Spaces and Places in which Children and Adults Want to Be
The purpose of this project was to investigate what teachers deemed optimal in their provision of an outdoor environment. This research involved 46 teachers from 15 early childhood centres in the North Island of New Zealand. The findings reported in […]
Increasing Early Childhood Education Enrolment and Attendance Rates
Report on a project to increase child enrolment and attendance rates at early childhood centres in socio-economically deprived areas of NZ. Read the full paper below. Or to order a pdf copy of the article go to the main NZIRECE Journal page.