Saturday concurrent session presentations
Morning sessions
- Environmental education meets intersecting dispositions: spaces in student knowledge - Maddy Peters-Algie and Sue Smorti, Te Tari Puna Ora o Aotearoa/NZ Childcare Association
- Puppets, props, stories and song: a practical skills workshop - Erin Devlin, Kiwi Puppet Company - presentation unavailable
- Celebrating Matariki in your early childhood centre - Stella Johnson and Pania Himiona-Hyland, Te Tari Puna Ora o Aotearoa/NZ Childcare Association
- Keynote workshop - Teu Le Va: the possibilities of collaborative relationships in Pasifika early childhood education - Dr Diane Mara, University of Auckland
- Key teachers' in a mixed age setting - exploring the concept of continuity of care - Natasha Kibble and Sarah Sears, Daisies Early Education and Care Centre
- R.E.S.P.E.C.T - find out what it means to the babies - Toni Christie, Childspace
- Blogging bliss - Amanda Higgins and Neta Samani, City Kids Childcare
- Negotiations of personal professional identities by newly qualified early childhood teachers through facilitated self-study - Alison Warren, Te Tari Puna Ora o Aotearoa/NZ Childcare Association
- Ki te whatu i te pokeka mo a tatou mokopuna - Lesley Rameka, Te Tari Puna Ora o Aotearoa/NZ Childcare Association
- Digital safety: yes it's everyone's business - Sharon Carlson, CORE Education - presentation unavailable
- 'Where's my family?' Accepting difference and expanding our notion of family - Kath Cooper, Te Tari Puna Ora o Aotearoa/NZ Childcare Association
- Māori students' completion rates in NZCA's diploma programme - Roimata Kirikiri and Drina Paratene, Te Tari Puna Ora o Aotearoa/NZ Childcare Association
Afternoon sessions
- 'We are all in this together.' Bridging the gap - leaders leading engaged team members - Phyllis Briggs, NZ Preschool Personnel
- He whainga maramatanga - journey towards shared understandings - Pania Himiona-Hyland, Stella Johnson, Maddy Peters-Algie, Debbie Rickard and Sue Smorti, Te Tari Puna Ora o Aotearoa/NZ Childcare Association
- Keynote workshop - Sustained shared thinking (SST): the adult role - Professor Iram Siraj-Blatchford
- Not just in our heads: interweaving practice and theory. A study of a continuous practicum in field-based teacher education - Cheryl McConnell, Eastern Institute of Technology
- E-portfolios in the early years: documenting for life-long learning - Sheree Teau and Angela Hogan, Kids' Domain Early Learning Centre
- Improving learning outcomes for children and building teacher capacity - Gaylyn Campbell, Sheree Adams and Anne Nation, Ruahine Kindergarten Association
- Learning together: social interactions in a mixed age setting - Tara Fagan, CORE Education - presentation unavailable
- Museum as teacher, early childhood centre as learner: the space between - Jeanette Clarkin-Phillips, University of Waikato, and Margaret Carr, Tai Tamariki Kindergarten - presentation unavailable
- Challenges in navigating multi-Pasifika perspectives within a bicultural paradigm - Jill Burgess, Pauline Luafutu-Simpson, Maria Huni, Rosemilly Riasi-Teahenui and Susana Smith, Te Tari Puna Ora o Aotearoa/NZ Childcare Association
- E au I le tau ola, e au I le fagota. If you follow and learn from the navigator, then one day you will also become a navigator - Jan Taouma and Ene Tapusoa, A'oga Fa'a Samoa
- What does Jim Heckman have to do with pathways to the future? - Margaret Stuart, Te Tari Puna Ora o Aotearoa/NZ Childcare Association
- Does availability equate to access - Rebekah Farmer, Saraswathi Griffiths-Chandran and Dr Lyn Fasoli, Charles Darwin University
