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The OECE is a national organisation for the ECE sector and public adviser, championing high-quality education and care for every child
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- Advances evidence-based best practices that prioritise children’s interests and wellbeing
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Teacher Member Posts
Different Ways to Write a Learning Story
Writing a Learning Story.
Learning stories are still the assessment type of choice for most early childhood services and teaching professionals. The way that learning stories are written vary from service to service.
While teachers and home-educators know what they are supposed to do in learning stories, they may be left questioning, what
Oppositional Defiant Disorder
Oppositional Defiant Disorder is a behavioural disorder that results in negative and hostile behaviour from a child.
This article explains:
The signs or what to look for when identifying Oppositional Defiant DisorderWays to help a child with the disorder
The disorder is becoming more common and boys are thought to be more likely to be
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 Kimberley had left her job to raise her own child but when a good friend needed someone to look after their baby, she decided home-based care could be a great way to continue her ECE career.
Giving Medicine to Children and Use of Painkillers such as Paracetamol
Giving Medicine to Children Who Attend ECE and Painkillers such as Paracetamol.
Pressure from parents and confusion over administering painkillers such as Panadol, Pamol and Ibuprofen could be putting the health of children in early childhood education services at risk.
Reports from teachers and carers show conflicting views and interpretat
Service Provider Member Posts
How Necessary is it to have Written Policies and what Shortcuts can be taken?
Early childhood service policies on everything are not always needed and are certainly not required.
Managers and early childhood service staff can easily get caught up in a sea of paper-work, that includes writing and reviewing policies in particular if they do not know the following.
Did you know that every service must have a written chi
Formal Warning Letter and Expressing Concern Letter
Here are templates for a letter ‘of concern’ and a letter giving an early childhood employee a formal first or second warning.
EXAMPLE LETTER OF CONCERN
Private and Confidential
DATE
Dear <Name>
Letter of Concern
This letter is to formally raise our concerns around <insert a general description of the concern, i.e. inapp
Staff Benefits and Wages Guide
The Staff Benefits and Wages Guide for Employers.
We provide data on usual and common benefits provided to staff, such as discounted childcare, and by which services. Data on pay rates at different services, for staff in different positions and regional variations is also shown below. Because data on pay rates can become dated as soon as it
What Records to Retain and How Long
Retention of Records: Paperwork and what’s Required to be Kept by the Ministry and Various Agencies, including IRD and the Charities Commission.
Issues of safety, privacy, and storage.
Early childhood service reports and records should always be kept in a safe place and not in someone else’s home, car, or workplace. In case of fire it
Research Library – Today’s Featured Articles
Children’s Developing Minds Revealed by Parent-led Research
A new book giving insight into children’s developing minds. What do children make of the stories we offer them? What do they think and feel as they listen to a parent read a picture-book? And what if a story confuses them. Read the full paper below. Or to order a pdf copy of the article go to the main NZIRECE Journal page.
Student Teachers’ Perceptions of Mentoring Relationships in Field-based Early Childhood Teacher Education
Abstract:
The focus of this paper is on the relationships and experiences of third-year field-based early childhood student teachers with their mentoring teachers in their usual centre of work and with their Associate Teachers whilst on practicum. It reports on data from the second phase of a larger multi-year study (which commenced in 2008),
The Relationship between Early Childhood Education and Care and English Proficiency at School Entry for Bilingual Children in Australia
The Relationship between Early Childhood Education and Care and English Proficiency at School Entry for Bilingual Children in Australia.
Meredith O’Connor1,2, Elodie J. O’Connor1, Amanda Kvalsvig1 and Sharon Goldfeld1,21. Royal Children’s Hospital, Victoria, Australia2. University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Full Reference: O’Co
From a Good Idea to a Robust Research Design: A Discussion of Challenges in Designing Early Childhood Research
Designing an ECE Research Study. By Claire McLachlan.
Abstract: Designing and carrying out research in the area of early childhood education is one that is attempted by many, including experienced and beginning researchers, postgraduate and undergraduate students as well as by people working in a range of different early childhood servi
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