Election 2017 - Party Policies - Education - Early Childhood Education
27th May 17, 9:50am
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Early Childhood Education
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- Re-establish the target of 100% qualified staff in teacher-led Early Childhood Education centres, and reinstate the funding to support this; improve child:teacher ratios, with a priority for under 2's.
- Create models to share best-practice and professional development between centres, including reinstating the Centres of Innovation program
- Set maximum overall child numbers that no centre can expand beyond.
- Encourage clustering of Early Childhood Education Centres with nearby Primary Schools to enhance the transition to school, including meetings between Early Childhood and New Entrants teachers.
- Support a diversity of models for immersion learning in Te Reo Māori and Pacific languages, and resource these appropriately.
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- Reinstate extra funding for ECE centres that employ 100 per cent qualified and registered teachers.
- Require all ECE centres to employ at least 80 per cent qualified teachers by the end of our first term
- Actively support establishing new public early childhood centres in areas of low-provision through targetd establishment grants.
- Work with parents, teachers, and stakeholders to develop a second version of Nga Huarahi Arataki – Pathways to the Future, a 10 year strategic plan for early childhood education.
- Develop a network of high quality centre-based early intervention programmes addressing the needs of vulnerable children in the most deprived areas.
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- Provide all children with free early childhood education.
- Work with kōhanga reo to increase the numbers of tamariki attending kōhanga.
- Increase funding for kōhanga reo and puna reo.
- Create parity of funding between kōhanga reo and ECE providers.
- Fund more digital learning programmes in te reo Māori.
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- Investing a record $10.8 billion a year into early childhood, primary, and secondary school education.
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- Give greater focus to the second strategic goal within Ngā Huarahi Arataki to improve the quality of all ECE services.
- Work with Te Kōhanga Reo National Trust to develop a funding model that future proofs Kōhanga Reo.
- Look to re-establish Parents as First Teachers.
- Review the adult to infant (under 2s) staffing ratio as an urgent health and safety matter.
- Restore the requirement for all ECE providers to ensure that the 100% registered teacher staffing ratio is achieved.
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