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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…
Teaching Children To Identify Their Anger Signs

Teaching Children To Identify Their Anger Signs

Learning emotional regulation in the early years is not only important to become better-adjusted adults but has been found directly related to higher levels of academic achievement in later life. An integral step in emotional regulation is the identification of…
Celebrating Holi With Children In Early Childhood Services

Celebrating Holi With Children In Early Childhood Services

Holi is celebrated on 18 March. It is an Indian Hindu festival of colours. As it celebrates in spring, it is called the “Festival of Spring.” In India, it is a holiday, celebrated wide across the country. Children also celebrate…
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.
Benefits Of Loose Parts

Benefits Of Loose Parts

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…
The Value of Play Based Learning In Early Childhood Services

The Value of Play Based Learning In Early Childhood Services

Play-based learning uses playful experiences in which children have some degree of agency and control as opportunities for teaching a range of skills and competencies.
Developing and Enhancing Literacy in Children

Developing and Enhancing Literacy in Children

Literacy skills cover the ability to read and write words, sentences and language. Since such skills are not just the basis of effective communication but also determine future academic progress, it is important to support literacy skills from early childhood.
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