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When exploring career options, it’s common to consider what skills are required to do well. For just about any job in any sector, you will be better off if you have well-developed adaptive skills. These are interpersonal skills, transferable skills — and they are particularly valuable in early childhood education. Change is constant in all […]

Making a meaningful contribution to the early childhood education sector is important for us, and for our learners. As we enter the New Year, you might notice a few changes to our early childhood education and care courses. This new early childhood education training package has been carefully designed to shape a thriving early childhood […]

*Original source: Early Childhood Australia’s Every Child magazine, article titled “Understanding imitation and educator wellbeing”, author Alana Evans (Vol. 26, #3). As an early childhood educator, being a role model to children is an essential part of the job. To be a positive role model, it’s important that educators ensure they are capable of showing […]

Intelligence is a quality that is highly sought after in people, and in today’s society it is now known to extend beyond a person’s ability to solve complex mathematics problems, use a large vocabulary or achieve high marks in school. In fact, it is generally agreed that there are many types of intelligence, covering a […]

Soft skills are often regarded as integral for workplace success, with many early childhood education employers considering them just as important as hard skills. The combination of emotional intelligence, personal attributes like patience and responsibility, as well as communication and social skills, are examples of soft skills which can equip you to thrive in the […]