There is an Early Childhood Year 3 (TECE300) assignment that is ramping up. You might get questions about it on AskLive. Students need to choose a New Zealand Early Childhood Centre of Innovation (COI). Check out the Educate web page on COI’s if you are interested in some background.

COI’s that have completed the three year project have a report that is available online from the Educate or the Education Counts websites. The links to these websites are in this information. Students need to read the relevant report.

Students are then required to find at least two articles written by any of the staff from their COI that relate to the innovation project. Not all COI’s have enough academic articles. There is a list of the COI’s that we know have enough articles on the TECE300 LEARN site and the Education subject guide. Students are encouraged to choose from the list. Articles can come from the ‘Waves’ series of books (edited by Anne Meade) on the catalogue. Searching MultiSearch for Waves Meade and limiting to books/eBooks will bring the books up, thankfully. They might also find links to articles on either Educate or the COI page on the Education Counts website. They can also use Index New Zealand to locate articles. Distance students can contact us to scan the articles from Waves and from INNZ.

The second part of the assignment requires student to locate at least 4 research articles on the curriculum area their COi is investigating. This requires using MultiSearch. We suggest to students that they start their search by putting “early childhood education” in MultiSearch and then putting their subject area in.

There is a blow by blow list of instructions on their TECE300 LEARN page and on the Education subject guide. We have also run 2 hour classes for this assignment this week. The class covered “what is an acacdemic article?” as well as INNZ, Multisearch and time for hands-on searching. Students are encouraged to post questions to their LEARN site forum.

Have a crack at answering the AskLive questions. Get in touch with Kim, Kathryn, Aurelia or Margaret if you strike any problems. We have all taught the classes for this assignment.

Kathryn and Kim