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Welcome to the Office of Early Childhood Education
National and public adviser on ECE, the OECE is a sector body representing teachers and all types of licensed services driving safer, higher‑quality education for every child
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- Provides membership support to ECE services, teachers, researchers, and community partners
- Actively contributes to sector analysis, research, and policy development
- Advances evidence-based best practices that prioritise children’s interests and wellbeing
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Teacher Member Posts
Becoming a Home-based Educator
The Joys, the Disappointments, and Why One Home-based Educator Knows She Has Made the Right Job Choice. After nine years working in early childhood centres…
Learning Languages in ECE from a Young Age
Learning languages in early childhood education is important - whether it is connecting with parts of our own kiwi culture or embracing other languages. With…
Seven Tips to Ease Back into Work After the Holidays
Going Back to Work. Here are 7 of the best tips for easing back to work after a holiday or other break away - smoothing…
Student Teachers in Your Centre: A Practical Guide
If you’re ready to start supporting student teachers as an Associate Teacher, we’ve got some helpful information to make the experience rich and rewarding for…
Service Provider Member Posts
Caring for Yourself When Managing or Leading an ECE Service/s
Caring for yourself when managing a service or in the role of a leader. And, the responsibilities that owners and governance committees must meet in…
Daylight Saving – What You Need to Know to Support Children Over This Period
Under 5s feel the daylight saving switch the most. Their lives are based around routines and times, waking, eating, going to ECE, going home, and…
Safety Checking of Staff and Others under the Children’s Act
Safety checking is required of every person who has or may have access to children as part of their work, such as cleaners and cooks…
Internal Evaluation and How to Please ERO
Internal Evaluation and the Education Review Office. Ongoing reflection and review of practice has always been a priority for ECE teachers to ensure that they…
Research Library – Today’s Featured Articles
Publication Ethics of the NZIRECE Journal
Publication ethics statement. Originality, accuracy and avoidance of harm The journal publishes only work that is original. Authors are asked to declare that their submitted…
Young Children Becoming Curriculum: Deleuze, Te Whāriki and Curricular Understandings
Marg Sellers contests the usual dichotomisation of children and curriculum, by proposing and developing the notion of re(con)ceiving children in curriculum.
The teacher’s role in visual arts learning
FULL REFERENCE: Probine, S. (2024). Colouring outside the lines: Re-exploring the teacher’s role in visual arts learning in early childhood. NZ International Research in Early…
Changing Roles and Responsibilities: The Development of Coaching in Early Intervention
This paper examines if coaching has a potential role in helping authentic collaborative partnerships between early intervention teachers and early childhood educators and families. Coaching…
What We Do
The Office of ECE drives high-quality care, learning and teaching for all infants and young children and high-quality working environments for teachers and service providers.
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