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Child Health, Attachment, and Wellbeing

Nappies – The Options and What’s Best in ECE

As professionals, teachers are often presented with situations that require them to consider what is important to the families of the children they are teaching, while ensuring that they are working in an environment where they are comfortable and where their training and experience is valued and appreciated.

In deciding how to approach the reus

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Gifted and Talented Children

Parenting a Gifted Child – What Parents Learn

Parenting a Gifted Child. By Melanie Wong.

Someone asked me ‘how can you manage your life with children who don’t like to sleep?’

I replied that ‘it is alright when you are used to it’.

I wish I had thought quickly enough at the time to also tell her how much I enjoy being with my children, as they did not only come into m

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Gender in Play and Learning

Supporting Boys’ Interests and Play in ECE

Ideas for activities and learning extensions are provided for teachers who are working with boys aged 3- 5 years.

There is a good chance you will see some gendered play and behaviour in any early childhood setting you enter. Our profession is female dominated and early childhood settings can be feminised environments.

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Advertising and Marketing / Promotion

How to do a Press Release Right

Education Press Release.

If you are planning to invite a local reporter along to your event or send an education press release out to manage what the media reports about something that has happened at your service, it pays to do a bit of planning beforehand to increase your chances of success.

Here are some tips to get you started on the ri

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Child Protection

Responding to a Child’s Disclosure of Abuse

Getting Help for an Abused Child. By Eric Hollis.

When a child discloses sexual abuse, it will always be distressing. It is natural for adults to feel at a loss to know how best to respond.

The information provided here covers how to listen and respond to a child who tells you, or hints in even a vague way, that she/he or someone they know

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Employer Guides and Staff Management

Staff Discipline and Competence Policy

DISCIPLINE AND COMPETENCE POLICY.  

A template to use for your discipline and competence policy.

Date Effective: __/__/20__

Review Date: __/__/202_

Rationale

<Service Name> is committed to providing children, staff and whānau with an environment which is safe and welcoming and promotes positive outcomes for all childr

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Financial Management and Records

The ECE Fundraising Guide

Fundraising Guide.

Hi, can you please help me and my kohanga. I don’t know how or where to get funding for an outside playground!!!! This is my first time trying to get a grant…….I’m really on the fundraising committee but I just found out there is no funding committee so I’m giving it a go         

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Research Library – Today’s Featured Articles

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2012 NZRECE Journal Articles

Solo Fathers with Young Children and their Social Needs

Solo fathers are an ‘invisible’ group in society, although Census data suggests they make up almost 5% of families in New Zealand. No research other than a review of Census data in 1999 has been done on this family type in New Zealand, and there is also very little published research overseas, especially where it includes young children. This i

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2013 NZRECE Journal Articles

Omissions and Presuppositions in Kei Tua o te Pae: A Critical Discourse Analysis

This research note describes some of the findings from an analysis of three introductory booklets of “Kei Tua o te Pae”, an early childhood assessment practice resource produced by the New Zealand Ministry of Education.

Analysis involved taking a critical discourse perspective to identify ways in which text was likely to persuade readers to

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2019 NZIRECE Journal No. 2

Nurturing the Learning and Development of Children who are Refugees

Phillipa Harris.

Full reference:Harris, P. (2019). Nurturing the learning and development of children who are refugees. NZ International Research in Early Childhood Education Journal. Special issue presenting position papers, 22(2), pp. 26 – 34.

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Original Position Paper

Abstract

This position paper provides a plea for

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