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Professional Learning, Mentoring & Development

Noho Marae – What’s involved and making the most out of your overnight stay at a marae

If you’ve attended noho marae before, you will likely have some knowledge of the pōwhiri or mihi whakatau process, and of the specific tikanga of the marae.

If it’s your first time, you may feel nervous and keen to ensure you know what to do, to show respect to the haukainga. 

Noho marae are a unique and powerful experience of learning and connectedness. 

Many ECE teams attend noho marae. This may be for professional development, team building, wānanga, connecting with tangata whenua or all of these reasons! Noho marae are also usually included in initial Teacher Education programmes. 

Pōwhiri Process

Pōwhiri are important welcoming ceremony which welcome manuhihi onto a marae.

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Job Guidance

Domestic Violence Leave

Early Childhood Teacher Domestic Violence Leave.

If you have any problem getting your right to domestic violence leave you can go to Employment New Zealand for support (there is no charge) or complain to the Human Rights Commission.

Contents:

Providing proof of domestic violence requirements. Your obligations, rights, entitlements, an

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Book Reviews

Men who Teach Young Children: An International Perspective by David Brody

In “Men who teach young children: An International Perspective” 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 cultural values and conditions that have shaped and influenced the path they travel.

Gender equality is viewed internationa

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Teaching and Putting Theory into Practice

Using Sign Language in Our Early Childhood Teaching

NZ Sign Language in Early Childhood Education and in our Teaching.

By Rachel Pratt.

NZ Sign Language (NZSL) is one of the three official languages of NZ and all ECE services and teachers need a basic understanding of it. Hearing children can become more understanding of differences and Deaf children can experience an environment where they feel welcome and supported.

Why should I teach it when there are no children with hearing impairments?

Deaf children who require visual communication represent about 0.1 percent of the population of children who are involved in early childhood education. For this reason, early childhood teachers and educators may not encounter many Deaf children and question the importance of using NZSL in their service.

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Policies and Procedures

Right of Entry Policy

Regulations require that certain groups of people, including parents, union staff, and public officials, have a right of entry to the early childhood service under certain conditions, and set out the responsibilities of the early childhood service.

Below is a Right of Entry Policy and a set of procedures for different situations. Adapt and re-w

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Financial Management and Record Keeping

Charging Parents for Late Pick-ups and Early Drop-offs

Late Fee.

Should you charge a late fee for late collection of children?  Or charge the parents of children who arrive early?

Some early childhood services ‘fine’ parents to try to deter them from leaving their child outside of hours that are booked. Other services charge late and early drop-off fees to generate  extra reven

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Advertising and Marketing / Promotion

No-Cost Advertising and Service Promotion

Marketing and Promotion.

Competition from other service providers in your area should not result in your service closing its doors. If you provide a quality service, do your home-work and develop a plan to keep children and attract new families.

The standard marketing and advertising advice is: 

1. Develop a plan.

2. Consider c

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Employer Guides and Staff Management

Leadership and Delegating

Delegating as a leader.

A key reason why the workload of a manager or leader can become unreasonable is that they can take on too much!

When a teacher takes on a management role a common mistake is to assume that the job consists of ensuring that they comply with regulatory and licensing requirements, health and safety and financial systems

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2012 NZRECE Journal Articles

Airplane Grows in the Tummy of Clouds: Living Through Relations in the Early Years of Life

Using a child’s expression that illustrates his mental image of constituted relations of living things, the author conceptualizes relationality, an interrelated view of being, and its importance for early childhood education. The difference between relation and interaction, and the significance of inter-human relationship are discussed as signifi

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2007 NZRECE Journal Articles

Index for the NZ Research in ECE Journal, 2007, Vol 10

The titles, authors and abstracts for papers published in the NZ Research in Early Childhood Education Journal, Volume 10, 2007 are shown below.

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Children’s Views of their World

Freda BriggsUniversity of South AustraliaNZRECE Journal, Vol. 10, 2007, pp. 3 – 1

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