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Infant And Toddler Pedagogy

Infant And Toddler Pedagogy

As babies engage with their caregivers and interact with their environment, their physical, cognitive, communication and social abilities develop exponentially. At the same time, they need adults to engage with them with attuned interactions and secure relationships. The following article…
Sensory Play for Children And Its Importance

Sensory Play for Children And Its Importance

Sensory Play is an early childhood educational approach that allows children to use all their senses when exploring their learning environment. The following article provides the benefits of sensory play and how you can incorporate it into the learning environment.
Strategies To Build Relationships With Children

Strategies To Build Relationships With Children

In early childhood, positive relationships with teachers are extremely important for intellectual, social and emotional development. Indeed research shows that secure attachments formed in early years do not just prepare the foundations for positive relationships in adulthood but predict positive…
Tactile Learning

Tactile Learning

Children like adults are usually predisposed to a particular way of processing information. Those who best do this by experiencing it or acting it out are known as tactile learners. A learning style that helps kids physically touch or try…
Supporting Children's Self-regulation

Supporting Children's Self-Regulation

Self-regulation can be understood as a suite of skills needed to control and manage one’s own emotions and behaviours in a wide range of setting. Learning self-regulation in the early years has been consistently linked to not just better adjusted…
Visual Learning Style In Children

Visual Learning Style In Children

Visual learners best process information when it is presented to them in a visual forms like printed words, diagrams, pictures and charts. Such children have a preference for learning by seeing things or observing other people do it. The following…
How to Use Non-Verbal Communication In The Workplace

How to Use Non-Verbal Communication In The Workplace

Effective communication is at the heart of every productive workplace but more so in sectors like ECE where so much depends on positive interactions between key stakeholders, like children, educators, families, management and providers. Non-verbal cues are an integral part…
Using Non-Verbal Communication With Children

Using Non-Verbal Communication With Children

Effective communication is key to building positive relationships with children and facilitating their learning. However, if our words are to have the desired impact, they need to be adequately complemented with non-verbal cues. This is even more pertinent in the…
Importance Of Men Working In Early Childhood Services

Importance Of Men Working In Early Childhood Services

The first few years in a child’s life are when values, ideas and attitudes take shape as the result of their experiences, adult responses and wider cultural influences. This is the time when positive role models can convey powerful lessons…
How Children Achieve MTOP Outcomes V2.0

How Children Achieve MTOP Outcomes V2.0

This is a guide for educators on what to observe under each sub-learning outcome from the MTOP Framework when a child is engaged in play and learning. Educators can plan experiences for the curriculum and gain an understanding of how…
Building Confidence In Children

Building Confidence In Children

When children are confident, it means they can recognise the things they are good at and are happy to try out new things. Confidence is so important that it forms part of two learning outcomes in the EYLF Outcome 1.3:…
Child Theorists and Their Theories in Practice

Child Theorists and Their Theories in Practice

As Educators working with children, it's important to understand each theoretical approach and use parts of different theorists in context. Each theorist’s ideas are independent of the other, but when put together, they give us a good overall understanding of…
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