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Asthma is quite common among children but many of them will grow out of it as they get older. Around one in four New Zealand children show signs of asthma at some time.
This article tells you about the known causes of asthma, treatments, when a child may or may not have asthma, and practical ways of improving the home and early childhood centre
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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
What are the Benefits of Membership of NZEI Te Riu Roa for Early Childhood Teachers? We are the union for early childhood teachers and support
Fewer than half of ECE centres that are eligible for the Government’s free lunch programme have been getting the kai in the early months of the programme, official reports indicate.
The titles, authors and abstracts for papers published in the NZ Research in Early Childhood Education Journal, Volume 11, 2008 are shown below.
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Making Choices: Contradictions and Commonalities in the Valuing of Caring and Working by Government Policy and First Time M
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
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.
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