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Promoting Empathy In Children

Promoting Empathy In Children

Empathy can be understood as the experience of understanding another person's condition from their perspective. The trait is considered one of the most important life skills that children can learn since it not only nurtures interpersonal relationships, thereby making for…
Documentation Services Require To Support Quality Area 4

Documentation Services Require To Support Quality Area 4

Quality Area 4 - Staffing Arrangements requires services to have sufficient educators and staff members available at all times when children are present. Educators are likely to be responsive, purposeful and reflective when staffing arrangements at the service enable them…
Teaching Children About Similarities And Differences In People

Teaching Children About Similarities And Differences In People

Learning about similarities and differences in people can be thought of as two sides of the same coin – that of appreciating what makes people different while respecting their fundamental humanity. The following article provides strategies on how to teach…
Documentation Services Require To Support Quality Area 3

Documentation Services Require To Support Quality Area 3

Quality Area 3 – Physical environment is to ensure it is safe and designed to provide a range of experiences to engage children in a variety of experiences to protect children's development and learning.
Visual Motor Integration For Children

Visual Motor Integration For Children

Visual Motor Integration covers efficient and effective coordination between the eyes and the hands so that children are able to copy, draw or write what they see. Since children develop their handwriting based on what they see in a model…
Little Yarns Podcast Series For Pre-schoolers

Little Yarns Podcast Series For Pre-schoolers

A co-listening podcast for preschoolers is called Little Yarns. Little Yarns is all about the various languages, tales, and countries of Indigenous Australia and is a great listening resource in early learning services.
Yarning Circles In Early Childhood Services

Yarning Circles In Early Childhood Services

A yarning circle is the practice of speaking and listening from the heart, for sitting together to talk and listen and share ideas and stories.
Writing Prompts For Evaluations, Reflections and Children Documentation

Writing Prompts For Evaluations, Reflections and Children Documentation

As an Educator, it's important to assess and document children's learning. This refers to gathering and analysing information about what children know, can do and understand. It is part of a cycle that includes planning, documenting and evaluating children’s learning.
Edible Sensory Experiences For Children

Edible Sensory Experiences For Children

Edible Sensory Experiences is an interactive experience with food that enables children to engage, express themselves artistically, or play with food without any thought of eating it. These sensory experiences are great for young children. The following article provides edible…
Cooking Skills For Children 2 to 5 Years Old

Cooking Skills For Children 2 to 5 Years Old

The early childcare setting can be hugely valuable in instilling healthy eating and lifestyle habits in children. What better way to do that than by engaging them in fun cooking activities. The following article provides a list of cooking skills…
Supporting Children Deal With Stress

Supporting Children Deal With Stress

Children, even young ones, regularly experience stress as they negotiate unfamiliar settings and people besides the turbulence of their own inner lives. The following article provides information on Using Calming Strategies for children, Teaching Self Regulation and more.
Guide To The Reggio Emilia Approach

Guide To The Reggio Emilia Approach

Developed in northern Italy after the Second World War, the Reggio Emilia is a child-centred approach to early childhood education. It puts a child’s sense of self-worth and agency at the heart of its pedagogical ideas and its practices are…
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