Bulletin Board

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http://www.education.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/education/about/centres/ecps/ecps_home.cfm

Welcome Gail

A belated Welcome to our newest team member, Gail Donald.

Gail has worked for the Ministry of Education as a PD facilitator and previously worked for ECD. We are very excited to have her on board as our Northland facilitator.

Schema

I have just been notified that a new book is being released this weekend by Playcentre Publications. It is from one of the parents working on the Wilton Playcentre Centre of Innovation programme.

Once I get a chance I will write a short review here.

To order it go to www.playcentre.org.nz and click on the publications page.

regards

Maureen

Welcome to our readers from the Montessori Cluster

It has been very exciting to begin a cluster programme that has an ICT component where centres are blogging as a part of developing a community of learners.

Some initial teething problems have been frustrating but we are all learning from these. I have found that as I learn more about this WEB 2.0 stuff I find more I want to be able to do so I have to research more and make more mistakes and hit more block walls.

But Oh! the satisfaction when I can make something work!!!

I have even been known to do a little dance in the privacy of my office



Maureen

Some new reading...

The next and final installment of the Kei Tua o te Pae series of booklets should be out by the end of this month or early March. Keep an eye out for them.

ERO has reviewed the sector implementation of the Self Review Guidelines and this report will soon be available on their Publications page

Māori Children in Early Childhood: Pilot Study is available from the ERO site as well.