I thought it was about absolute monarchists vs constitutional monarchists.
Yes. Because for the past year Biden has given them free reign to murder and kill.
Naw they look like little huntsman.
Craig Good
Brosnan Bad
Dalton Good
Moore Bad
Lazenby Good
Niven Bad
Connery Good
Does not compute.
Seek is your best bet.
For Government jobs
https://www.careers.vic.gov.au/jobs/early-childhood?keyword=Early+Childhood
Or
https://jobs.earlychildhood.education.vic.gov.au/
If it's a small place you can try applying directly, or if it's a group you can visit their site they often advertise vacancies directly as well. If they know a centre they want to work at, it can't hurt to ring in and ask, often lots of places are look unofficially before they start seriously looking.
My instance is blocked from them (and .ml), so I don't think they can see this post.
Scrap the subsidies entirely. They’re harmful and fucking over the industry.
Stop subsiding private businesses who rate hike each year yet pass none of it into the resources, building, children, or educators.
And finally pay educators better, you want high quality education? You’re not getting it when your educators rarely stay more than a year into the industry and lack all deep long term institutional knowledge.
Not to mention we’re deeply understaffed as is, and you want to put more children in when we cannot meet the demand already existing, and no a free fucking tafe course is not getting educators into the industry.
This is policy made by people who don’t step foot in the class and have zero idea of the industry.
I tried that. No one ever really joined. I tried posting content, and no one ever engaged with it.
Guess theres not many childcare educators on Lemmy as the reddit community is always super active.
Legend.
Behaviourism (reward/punish to influence behaviour) was revolutionary 100 years ago, it’s pretty outdated by today’s educational paedagogy.
You might get a few short term “wins”, but all you’re doing long term is teaching them to focus on the reward. They're not learning an intrinsic value to the actions, and as such will be less likely to follow through once you’re not in the picture to punish/reward (e.g. at school, as teenagers doing teenager things, etc)
Government to fund pay rise for early childhood educators – as long as childcare centres limit fee increases
The federal government has announced it will fund a 15 per cent wage increase for early childhood education workers, tied to a commitment from childcare centres to limit fee increases.
We’d been fighting for 25%, so only 10% left to go. Glad to see UWU putting some pressure on.
I live 2 streets away and have never been. What’s so good about it?
What happened to McAfee exactly?
Literacy Teaching Toolkit Map - Birth to 5 Years
This is a handy little resource for planning experiences or provocations in regards to literacy skills.
SBS advertising Tucker Carlson event in Aus
What the absolute fuck? Has anyone else seen this ad play on SBS, how can they advertise for such a piece of shit to spread his brand of hate here.
Scannáin agus Ceol / Movies and Music
Teilifís / Television
- TG4 Youtube
Irish TV station
Ceol / Music
- Kneecap
Hip Hop/Rap duo
Scannáin / Movies
- Filleann an Feall
A short film staring Cillian Murphy
Dia Duit - Come join my Irish/Gaeilge learning/speaking community!
I've started a community to help learn and practice Irish/Gaeilge. I'm learning myself and would love to meet others who are also trying, or even people who can already speak who'd love to teach or just talk.
Links to Community: Gaeilge !gaeilge@quokk.au quokk.au/c/gaeilge
Fáilte
Dia Duit,
welcome to this little Lemmy community for learning Irish/Gaeilge. I'm still learning myself, so I'll be using this as a resource to share what I learn and hopefully entice other learners or speakers to participate?
What have theories got to do with it?
This is a useful primer to start thinking about how theories exist within the work we do.
5 Fields of Early Childhood Theory
- Developmental
- Socio-cultural
- Socio-behaviourist
- Post-structural
- Critical
These are 5 ways to break down ECE theory. Here’s a brief overview on what they may look like when applied.
Developmental theory focuses on how the child develops, physically and mentally. We focus largely on stages and broad milestones.
Socio-Cultural theory looks at how society affects the growth of a child. What does their family and community impart on them as values.
Socio-behaviourist theory is a focus on stimuli and interactions with environments. We might look at structured routines and positive or negative reinforcement.
Post-Structuralist theory is about challenging our own understandings. What is really best, is eating with cutlery a goal to achieve when at home a child’s household may use their hands more for meals. How do our own cultural values impact a child’s.
Critical theory seeks to challenge our power structures. Are we dictators of children’s development or do we value their input? Should social constructs be enforced or should we challenge them?
What are your views on them? Do you value any over the other, do you incorporate all these things into your practices?
Free dinosaurs for school kids during holidays
Or at least lots of free dinosaur related content going on.
Did you know you can buy legit fossils of Spinosaurus teeth for like $9 online, could be a special memorable gift if any child really gets into them through these events.
Edit: and free zoo entry https://www.zoo.org.au/dinos-at-the-zoo
What would education in a SolarPunk society look like to you?
Curious to hear people’s ideas on how education would look in such a world.
For me, I’d like to see it moved away from testing and results based learning.
A stronger focus on physical engagement with things, e.g. learning biology by going out and cataloging wildlife and learning what’s in a local ecosystem before coming together and researching findings and looking for new questions to ask.
Less sitting around at desks being fed information and a greater focus on individual agency in exploring topics of interest.
Not to say there isn’t a time and a place for “high level” stuff where you need to deep dive into books and listen to lectures, but there needs to be a greater balance in methodology.
Quick Questions
Got any concerns or questions you'd like to discuss? Share them here and I (we? please join me I'm so lonely) will do our best to answer them.
Early Childhood Education - A community of ECE Educators or those interested in pre-school aged children's education & development (i.e. parents)
As the title says it's a community based around early years learning and development, so from birth up to pre-school.
Mainly aimed at educators, teachers, and anyone else who works with these age ranges but more than happy to field questions from parents who may be wanting more information to help them.
It's a bit of a niche community, so I'm going to struggle to grow it but Lemmy needs more industry professional spaces!
Edit: It's a .au domain, but the community is for everyone no matter where you live.
Links to Community: Early Childhood Education !earlychildhood@quokk.au quokk.au/c/earlychildhood
Child Theorists and Their Theories in Practice
As Educators working with children, it's important to understand each theoretical approach and use parts of different theorists in context. Each theor...
Do you use theory in any of your documentation or planning?
I personally find myself using Parten's model a lot, although I find a lot of the stages can occur differently depending more on a child's personality than their age. But it is useful for thinking about what sort of play the children may be engaging in.
I'm very much against the fully committing to one method, such as you see in Montessori or Steiner schools. Children need a much more holistic approach, using elements from everywhere.
How can I prove I exist?
I'm born here and a citizen, however I don't have a passport, nor a copy of a birth certificate yet I need to prove I have a right to work here for a job.
From my look on the gov site, I can use a passport to get my birth certificate or a birth certificate to get a passport. Neither of which is any bloody help.
Does anyone know what to do?
Let's enter this into LemmyVision (Donny Benét - American Dream)
- It's weird
- It's political
- It's recent
- It's Australian, but the title will confuse people
- It's the vibe
I think it'll resonate well with the Lemmy audience, see these instant upvote lyrics:
>When the Orange man Came into power The Minutes Soon Felt like hours Then the Old man Won the election But the world Didn’t change direction