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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
The Professional Development and Support Needs of Newly Qualified ECE Teachers
Too Much, Too Soon? The Multiple Roles and Identities of Newly Qualified Early Childhood by Helen Aitken. Read the full paper below. Or to order…
SUDI or SIDS – What you need to know and actions you can take to reduce the risk
SUDI Sudden Unexplained Death of an Infant. Should an infant at your early childhood service die in their sleep how would you feel? You might…
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…
Active Supervision: Four Skills Every Adult Teaching in ECE Should Know
Active supervision is the single most effective way to prevent harm - this article explains what active supervision is and the four essential skills adults…
Service Provider Member Posts
Job Descriptions
Job description templates for various centre and home-based positions and examples. Creating an effective job description is an important part of the hiring and employment…
Financial Sustainability
Early Childhood Service Financial Sustainability. Unless as much or more money is coming in than is going out, your service could come to be at…
Active Supervision: Four Skills Every Adult Teaching in ECE Should Know
Active supervision is the single most effective way to prevent harm - this article explains what active supervision is and the four essential skills adults…
Getting Men to Apply for Your Staff Vacancy
Male job applicants. We are advertising for a teacher and have received some quality applications so far, but no applications from males. We would love…
Research Library – Today’s Featured Articles
Visible Difference: Photostory as Capacity Building, Research and Evaluation Method
This paper presents research on the use of visual documentation - photo stories - to support reflective teaching practice, disrupt traditional power relations between educators…
Men who Teach Young Children: An International Perspective by David Brody
Author Dr David Brody provides a penetrating look at the lives and personal beliefs of male early childhood and kindergarten teachers. He also reviews the…
The State of Play in Early Childhood Policy: A Note from Australia
FULL REFERENCE: Press, F. (2014). The State of Play in Early Childhood Policy: A Note from Australia. NZ Research in Early Childhood Education Journal, 17, 11 -…
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…
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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