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Internal Evaluation, Self-Review and Staff Meetings

Staff Meetings – Agenda and How to Conduct a Meeting

Staff meetings can work really well with the right Agenda and planning. Here’s how to achieve and cover what is important and make sure no meeting is a waste of valuable time.

Scroll to near the end of this page for a sample Agenda and sample planning docs.

There is no specific regulatory requirement to hold staff meetings. But services fi

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Employer Guides and Staff Management

The ECE Employer Guide to Employing and Managing Staff

The ECE Employer Guide is for all managers and persons who employ or are involved in the recruitment and employment of staff. It is a comprehensive resource with detailed information on employment matters as well as on managing your team.  

The ECE Employer Guide has been prepared for teacher-led services but there is much in this gui

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Creating a Team Contract and the Behaviours of a Well-functioning Team

Creating and signing a team contract is a great idea – it fosters teamwork by acting to cement agreed behaviours and establishing a platform for effective professional conversations. 

Having effective professional conversations supports continuous improvement of practices by allowing teachers to examine beliefs and assumptions and understand how these impact on children, the service, and each other.   

Spending time discussing service philosophy, behaviour and kaupapa are important aspects of teaching.  This can be linked to the Te Ao Māori concepts of tapu and noa.

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Employment References

Have you been asked by a colleague, student, or employee for an employment reference?

Here we explain your obligations, what to write, and ways to provide a job reference.

If you are asked by an employer to provide a reference for a person who has not asked you to be a referee, do not provide a reference without first checking and obtaining

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Policies and Procedures

Fees Policy

Use and adapt this fees policy and procedures to suit your ECE service. Procedures may cover late payment of fees and debt collection, charging for public holidays, 20 Hours ECE, the WINZ subsidy, late pick-up fee and other charges.

Early childhood services have three main sources of revenue:  parent fees, government subsidies and grants,

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Policies and Procedures

Child Protection Policy

The Ministry of Education has identified non-compliance in services that don’t have a child protection policy with procedures that detail:

provisions for the identification and reporting of child abuse and neglect, and

information about how the service will keep children safe from abuseand neglect, and

how it will respond to suspected

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