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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
Child Vaccination Requirements
Children's Immunisation and ECE. One of the key international measures of a healthy population is a country's percentage of children fully immunised against diseases.…
Sleep – How Much and Meeting Parents’ Wishes
Sleeping During the Day at ECE. Nap, sleep and rest times have led to tensions and stand-offs between teachers, parents and children in some centres…
Job Interview Preparation and Questions
ECE Job Interview Questions. If you have been asked to attend an interview then you have been short-listed out of the applications received. The information…
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…
Service Provider Member Posts
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…
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…
Children’s Toilets and Bathroom
Toilets are a basic thing to most of us, a place where we go to undertake an everyday task, a place that should be pleasant…
Indoor-Outdoor Spaces and Room Layout
Early Childhood Centre Design Ideas. We show, with photographs, a different design and approach to using space for supporting small group and project work. The design…
Research Library – Today’s Featured Articles
Advanced Empathy in the Early Years – A Risky Strength?
FULL REFERENCE: Hodgkins, A. (2019). Advanced empathy in the early years – a risky strength? NZ International Research in Early Childhood Education Journal, 22(1), pp.…
Communities of Learning: Promoting Equity in ECE Policy and Practice
FULL REFERENCE: Hohaia-Rollinson, F., Jena-Crottet, A., Illston, K., Malcolm, J., Purdue, K. and Tate, A. (2021). Communities of learning: Promoting equity in ECE policy and…
Creating an Early Childhood Curriculum Pathway for Sustaining Indigenous Knowledges
Practices of equality and diversity in terms of early childhood education curriculum are examined. ECE is a transmitter of Western knowledges to Indigenous Fijian people…
Factors Influencing the Use of Digital Technology in Early Childhood Education
FULL REFERENCE: Anderson, R. and Toh-Heng, H.L. (2019). Factors influencing the use of digital technology in early childhood education. NZ International Research in Early Childhood Education…
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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