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Early Childhood Education and Care News
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April 20, 2021
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Kia ora, this week meet Bayfield Kindergarten's ECE Environmental Hero Rae Shurbutt and learn how she has brought a sting-free bee experience to the children in her early learning service. Also, how to conduct staff evaluations in early education.
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The bees of Bayfield Kindergarten
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There's a buzz in the air at Bayfield Kindergarten!
This early childhood education (ECE) service is a nature lovers' playground, with bees, worms, flowers and vegetables at every turn, and the kindy has gotten that little bit buzzier, since one of its educators won an ECE Hero Award!
Rae Shurbutt has taken out the gong for Environmental Hero, and she's responsible for a hive of activity at her ECE service.
With help from the Dunedin community, Rae has converted a wasteland area into a wonderful bee garden at her kindy, and she's teaching tamariki hands-on lessons about keeping bees and caring for the natural world.
Today, Rae explains how beekeeping works in the early learning environment.
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Staff evaluations - Why to and how to
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The day-to-day professional life of an early childhood director is undeniably rewarding, but also long and tiring.
Amidst the hurly burly of caring for children, the on-going paperwork and managing relationships with parents and caregivers there isn't much time to stop and have a cup of tea, let alone pause for professional reflection.
Many of the directors we have interviewed over the years pride themselves on offering staff professional development opportunities intended to improve staff retention rates and ensure staff are constantly learning and improving their practice.
What is less clear to us is how many early childhood directors conduct regular staff evaluations and/or performance management meetings.
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