For early childhood students...
Early Childhood
Australia has negotiated a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)
with Thomson Education Direct, a world leader in the provision of
distance education courses.
As a result of this MOU, Thomson
students who are studying for certificate and diploma courses in
children's services will receive a subscription to the ECA Everyday Learning Series, and ECA WebWatch fortnightly. Negotiations
are underway for Thomson Education Direct children's services
students to become student members of Early
Childhood Australia.
The following links will provide
Thomson and other students studying Care for Babies at a
Certificate III level with quality-assured information to complete
that unit.
Good luck!
This issue's links
Learning
about babies and toddlers: Babies (Supporting Best
Practice)
This section of ECA's
Supporting Best Practice web directory will support Cert III
students in their studies regarding the care and education of
infants – specifically, the first 12 months of their lives.
Policy brief on literacy (PDF)
This is an excellent
article: 'Children construct their learning and develop their
initiative, their curiosity, their inventiveness, and confidence in
themselves. They create a community in which they can give and
receive ideas, suggestions, and rules—dispositions that will be
useful throughout their lives.'
The birds and their
nests project
This article discusses a project about birds
and their nests undertaken by 3- to 5-year-olds. After a description
of the center and the goal of the project, the three phases of the
project are presented. Reflections of the teachers and photographs
taken for documenting the project are also included.
How
to grow leadership competencies
'To learn a new skill, you
need the opportunity to practice. For leaders, however, the
connection between needed skills and how to learn them is often
unclear.' This Model of Leader Competencies is designed to 'help
leaders see the broad repertoire of knowledge, skills and abilities
needed to be effective'.
A
charter for the teaching profession – responses invited
From
Teaching Australia: information about why a charter might be good
for the profession, a sample of what a charter might look like, and
ways of providing your views. If you would like hard copies of this
material, please call 1800 337 872 or email charter@teachingaustralia.edu.au.
Physical
punishment and children (Supporting Best Practice)
As part of
ECA's partnership with NAPCAN and
National Child Protection Week 2006, we have added this page from
ECA's Supporting Best Practice web
directory. These links cover a range of issues relating to the
physical punishment of children.
Early Childhood
Australia advocacy
In this section of ECA WebWatch we'd like to highlight some
of the advocacy work Early Childhood
Australia has been involved in recently.
A big thank you to our members; your
support enables us to advocate in the best interests of young
children, parents and carers, and the early childhood field.
Find
out more about membership of Early Childhood Australia.
A sample of Early Childhood
Australia's advocacy work in the past few months:
Conference presentations
ECA spoke at the
following conferences:
Committee participation
ECA is represented on:
- Chair of National Childcare Accreditation Council
- Meeting of Board of Childcare and Child Health
- Meeting of Board of Australian College of Education
Early childhood alliances
ECA met with:
ECA is also developing:
- A jointly funded project with SNAICC about bringing
dreamtime stories into the mainstream
Early Childhood Australia
books
Babies: Good beginnings last forever highlights the importance of sensitive, responsive relationships to the ongoing development of the child.
Innovations: Infant and toddler development provides an in-depth guide to the underlying ages and stages, theories and best practices of the early childhood field.
All books are quality assured by Early Childhood Australia.
Let
us know what you think! We welcome any suggestions or comments
you have: webwatch@earlychildhood.org.au
Past issues of ECA WebWatch are available on the Early
Childhood Australia website.
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ECA
WebWatch - Issue 15, September 2006. Early Childhood
Australia.
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