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Learning Environments That Show Respect For Diversity In Early Childhood Services

Learning Environments That Show Respect For Diversity In Early Childhood Services

Learning environments are spaces that facilitate the all-round development of children through developmentally appropriate routines, program plans, tools as well as opportunities for play and exploration. The indoor environment, playground, outdoors are some common learning environments that should be welcoming…
Protecting Pregnant Educators From CMV In Early Childhood Services

Protecting Pregnant Educators From CMV In Early Childhood Services

CMV or Cytomegalovirus is a viral infection quite common in the general population. In healthy people, it usually runs its course with little more ordinary flu symptoms like mild fever, sore throat and swollen glands. In fact, people may be…
Process Art Vs Product Art In Early Childhood Services

Process Art Vs Product Art In Early Childhood Services

Art-based learning is used in most approaches to early childhood education across the world. It is widely accepted that art not just helps the child to develop creative and fine motor skills but also nurtures cognitive skills like planning and…
Benefits For Children From Being Barefoot

Benefits For Children From Being Barefoot

A child being barefoot can stimulate a variety of senses for children. The feeling of cool prickly grass in the shade, the warm soft grass in the sun, the gritty concrete path, the stones that prick their toes, expanding and…
Phrases To Use When Children Aren't Listening

Phrases To Use When Children Aren't Listening

It can be difficult for young children to listen to others. On one hand, the little brains are still struggling with impulse control while on the other, they are at a developmental stage where they have started asserting their individuality.…
How To Provide Constructive Feedback To Educators

How To Provide Constructive Feedback To Educators

Educators, like all other professionals, stand to benefit from feedback. However, the dynamic environment of their work and the well-being of children in their care make it particularly crucial that any feedback given to them is fair and constructive.
Behavioural Interventions In Early Childhood

Behavioural Interventions In Early Childhood

Early childhood is a time of testing all sorts of boundaries. As young children gain more control over their bodies, they become keener to explore physical and social environments, trying to understand what they can and cannot do. In this…
Outdoor Play With Babies

Outdoor Play With Babies

Right from the earliest years, outdoor experiences are an invaluable aspect of healthy human growth. Engaging with the outdoors and nature helps even babies to develop fully, realise their physical and intellectual potential as well as bond with the surrounding…
Learning With Nature

Learning With Nature

Over centuries, Nature has been represented by artists, poets and philosophers as the ideal setting for learning about humanity and the universe. Indeed they may have been onto something as everyday there is more evidence about how experiences with nature…
How Pretend Play Supports Children's Learning

How Pretend Play Supports Children's Learning

Pretend play is the acting out of stories by children that involves make-believe characters, emotions and situations. Developmental psychologists believe that children begin to engage in pretend play from around two years and it goes on to mark an important…
NSW Staff Ratios and Adequate Supervision

NSW Staff Ratios and Adequate Supervision

The Staff Ratios and Adequate Supervision information, for NSW early childhood services, has been revised and updated by the NSW Regulatory Authority, NSW Department Of Education.
Loose Parts Play In Early Childhood Services

Loose Parts Play In Early Childhood Services

When playing with things, children are usually attracted to those that are colourful, easily handled, made up of many components and allow enough room for their curiosity. Loose parts is a term used in early childhood learning to include such…
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