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Child Care News for Parents & Carers
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February 17, 2021
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Kia ora, this week meet Dom Bell an educator at Learning Adventures Mangorei, who is one of the three men who make up the full-time teaching staff at their New Plymouth service. Also, resources to boost your child's early literacy.
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Insights from a male early childhood educator
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Dom Bell is an early childhood educator at Learning Adventures Mangorei and although he and his colleagues, Brian Rawlins and Aaron Mayhew, make up half the full-time teaching staff at their New Plymouth service, these male educators are in the minority nation-wide.
According to 2019 data, approximately 2.4 per cent of early childhood teachers in New Zealand were men (or 750 out of around 31,400 teachers), and Stuff reports that this is one of the lowest rates of male early childhood teachers in the developed world.
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Resources to support your child's early literacy success
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Literacy is the ability to read and write, and this skill development is a magical and monumental part of childhood.
The simple act of recognising a sight word or scrawling one's name leads to big and beautiful things in a youngster's life, and to support children's early reading, writing and oral language success, a team of University of Canterbury researchers has developed the Better Start Literacy Approach.
This programme of evidence-based literacy instruction aims to foster literacy success for all young learners, with a focus on phonological awareness (understanding the sound structure of the spoken word) and early vocabulary.
School teachers can use the Better Start Literacy Approach for ages five and six, and at home, a collection of free resources is available for families with children aged three to six. So, let's see how you can give your young reader a great start.
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