Southern Suburbs BM; Tuesday, 7th February 2012; Gymea NSW; 4:30 pm. read more

PIP Maintenance of Accreditation - Castle Hill; Monday, 13th February 2012; 4:30-6:30 pm read more

Hunter Valley BM; Monday, 13th February 2012; New Lambton NSW; 5:00 pm. read more

Northern Suburbs BM; Monday, 13th February 2012; Cammeray NSW; 4:30 pm. read more

Central Metropolitan BM; Tuesday, 14th February 2012; Burwood NSW; 4:30 pm. read more

PIP Cyber Savvy - Dee Why; Wednesday 15 February 2012; 4:30-6:30 pm read more

South Coast BM; Wednesday, 15th February 2012; Woonona NSW; 6:45 pm. read more

Penrith Blue Mountains BM; Wednesday, 15th February 2012; Penrith NSW; 4:30 pm. read more

Metropolitan East BM; Wednesday, 15th February 2012; Randwick NSW; 4:30 pm. read more

Central Coast BM; Thursday, 16th February 2012; Gosford NSW; 4:30 pm. read more

IEU Reps Training Day - Tamworth; Friday 17 February 2012; 9:15-3:15pm read more

Mid North Coast BM; Friday, 17th February 2012; Nambucca Heads NSW; 6:00 pm. read more

South East Branch Meeting; Friday, 17th February 2012; Griffith NSW; 6:00 pm. read more

Riverina BM; Friday, 17th February 2012; Wagga Wagga NSW; 7:30 pm. read more

North West Branch Meeting; Friday, 17th February 2012; Tamworth NSW; 5:30 pm. read more

Principals BM; Saturday, 18th February 2012; IEU Office Parramatta; 10:00 am. read more

Cumberland BM; Monday, 20th February 2012; IEU Office Parramatta; 4:30 pm. read more

PIP Maintenance of Accreditation - Sydney City; Monday 20 February 2012; 4.30 - 6.30pm read more

Ku-ring-gai BM; Thursday, 21st February 2012; Hornsby NSW; 4:30 pm. read more

IEU Reps Training Day - Orange, Friday 24 Feb 2012; 9.15 to 3.15 read more

North Coast BM; Wednesday, 22nd February 2012; IEU Office Lismore; 5:00 pm. read more

PIP Maintenance of Accreditation - Revesby Heights; Wednesday 22 February 2012; 4:30-6:30pm read more

Monaro BM; Thursday, 23rd February 2012; Barton ACT; 4:15 pm. read more

Lansdowne BM; Thursday, 23rd February 2012; Fairfield NSW; 4:30 pm. read more

Central Western BM; Friday, 24th February 2012; Orange NSW; 7:30 pm. read more

PIP Maintenance of Accreditation - Forbes; Monday 27 February 2012; 4.30-6.30 read more

Awards and Salaries

Productivity commission recommends payrises

If early childhood teachers and directors around Australia, and in NSW in particular, needed further proof of their plight, they received it in June with the Productivity Commission’s draft research report into The Early Childhood Development Workforce.
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Campaigns and Issues

Petition to pressure Government

The Teachers are Teachers campaign is calling on the NSW Government to fund every community-based long day care service and preschool with an additional $20,000 per annum for each teacher they are required to employ under the Education and Care Services National Regulations.
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Early Childhood

Standing room only

Participants at this year’s packed NSW/ACT IEU Early Childhood Conference were provoked, riveted and informed by an array of speakers ranging from pay equity advocates, to educational and health specialists and early childhood practitioners.
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Understanding Gen X & Y parents

There is little doubt that a large disconnect exists between the attitudes, capabilities and learning styles of older Australians raised and educated in a pre-computer environment, and those raised with technology as a routine part of their upbringing.
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Creating a positive picture

The Art Around project aims to increase visual arts knowledge and ability of early childhood educators to have a positive affect on the visual arts programs they provide for children, writes artist Jan Downes.
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Learn about yourself, teach others

As leaders in early childhood we navigate our way through unchartered waters, in our jobs and within ourselves, writes early childhood centre director and Challenge Busters Co-Director Dianne Miller.
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Education

Does childcare influence developmental outcomes?

Many in the community continue to express concern about whether the level of childcare young children receive has long-term consequences, writes Professor Jake M Najman et al.
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It will all come out in the wash Pedagogical leadership

If we ask ourselves whether our education styles are more akin to a top loading or front loading washing machine, what would come out in the wash at our workplaces, asks early childhood expert Joy Lubawy.
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IEU Information

It’s a caring world – or is it? Empathy, books and the environment

What is empathy? Most agree that empathy is the ability to share another’s feelings by drawing on your own. But what happens if our ability to empathise nosedives?
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Indigenous Issues

Breaking down the barriers

Cultural competence has become a professional imperative, writes Melinda Miller, Lecturer, School of Early Childhood at Queensland University of Technology.
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Schools

What’s the future for Queensland community kindys?

Queensland Minister for Education and Training, Cameron Dick, considered early childhood education members concerns about the future of community kindergartens in a meeting with Union representatives in September.
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Teachers

If we don’t fight children lose

Think about what you would do as a teacher if you were to receive an extra $5000, $10,000 $15,0000, or $20,000 per year, Teachers are Teachers Campaign Coordinator Lisa Bryant says.
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Following the beat makes the best music

In 2009-2010 a team of researchers from Charles Sturt and Macquarie Universities explored what contributed to six centres’ consistent high quality ratings.
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