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Practical Steps For Including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures and People Within An Early Childhood Service

Practical Steps For Including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures and People Within An Early Childhood Service

Among the key principles of the NQF is the valuing of Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures. Recognising and including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and cultures forms the bedrock of not only reconciliation but of the broader…
How To Discuss Practices During An Assessment and Rating Visit

How To Discuss Practices During An Assessment and Rating Visit

A service assessment and rating visit is an opportunity to demonstrate the strengths of your service and seek user feedback. It is important to be able to articulate your achievements and practices effectively. The following article provides information on Supporting…
Strategies For New Educators Starting In Early Childhood Services

Strategies For New Educators Starting In Early Childhood Services

Even for the most accomplished of new graduates, the transition from educational to professional context can be challenging. Not only is the new educator thrust into the hurly-burly of everyday teaching, but is expected to adjust to an entirely unfamiliar…
Managing Stressful Moments In Early Childhood Services

Managing Stressful Moments In Early Childhood Services

Early childhood services are among the most demanding professional situations. Being responsible for the care and learning of toddlers and young children often leaves caregivers and educators vulnerable to highly physically and emotionally stressful moments over the day. If you…
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…
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.
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