Early learning in a home daycare environment allows educators to provide families with a professional service that offers both flexibility and opportunities to nurture and support children within a home environment.I regularly spotlight some of the wonderful work that professional family day care educators do here in Australia and also overseas. We take a peek into their home based early years…
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Family Daycare Educator Environments – Spotlight On Sai
Get ideas and inspiration from real family daycare educator environments with this new blog series. I’m passionate about home based childcare options, having run my own numerous times over the years, in Australia we call this sector Family Day Care and in this series I will be highlighting some of the wonderful work that professional family day care educators do all…
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Early Learning Ideas from REAL Educators – Inspiration From 2021
Looking for realistic early learning ideas and environment inspiration from educators and leaders like you that could easily be used in your own early years service? Yes? Then you will want to bookmark this post!Over the last year I have been compiling some of the BEST ideas and setup inspiration from the wonderful educators in my Empowered Educator Facebook Community. As we…
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Christmas Activities for Early Learning – Inspiration from Educators
It’s the time of year when early childhood educators begin setting up Christmas activities for early learning.This year, why not ditch the usual stress and mainly teacher-led Christmas activities and instead try a few of these simple but fun ideas from our wonderful Empowered Educator Facebook community. If you’re looking for less ‘adult required’ activities and more child led Christmas experiences …
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Outdoor Activities, Invitations & Play Ideas From Early Years Educators
Are you bored with your outdoor play, learning environment or program? The collection of outdoor activities, invitations and play ideas shared by educators throughout this post will reignite your motivation and perhaps inspire you to try something a little different. If you’re not already in my Empowered Educator Facebook Group you can join here – it’s a clever and creative community…
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Organise, Visualise & Document Children’s Early Learning With Airtable
If you feel frustrated or disorganised when trying to document children’s early learning then let me introduce you to my Airtable Digital Planning Cycle Tracker For Educators.I’ve been using Airtable for a few years now to help create content for my Empowered Educator blog but it also makes a fantastic (and easy to use, which I need!) digital tool for…
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