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Early Childhood Education and Care News
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June 22, 2021
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Kia ora, this week everything you need to know about the Provider Assessment Group and new reports from ERO provide guidance on teaching STEM skills to children in the early years.
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Specialist team to target high-risk services
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A specialist team of investigators targeting suspect early childhood services for breaches that include health and safety rules and financial fraud, is back-on-the-beat following an April announcement by the Education Ministry.
The Provider Assessment Group (PAG) had been in operation for three years and made surprise visits to early learning services that had repeated and serious non-compliance issues until it was disbanded in October last year.
"While historically the PAG has focussed on home-based services, the knowledge and risk identifiers that the PAG developed have, and will continue to be used across the ECE sector.
We have found that services identified by the PAG as having high-risk financial indicators often also have poor health and safety processes in place," said a ministry spokesperson.
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New reports unpack practices to boost science education
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New reports published by the Education Research Office (ERO) highlight key practices where young children are effectively engaged in science but find that there's 'more work to do' to boost educational outcomes.
"The release of these new science reports is timely as recent national and international research shows that New Zealand students are not achieving as well in science we would like," says Ruth Shinoda, Head of ERO's Education Evaluation Centre.
"Across all age groups we found that being deliberate about how we teach science is incredibly important. Educators need to plan to teach science in a way that ensures children grow their science skills, understand science fundamentals and have a strong knowledge base that creates a passion for science."
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