OMEP is currently represented in 72 countries and co-operates with other international organisations with similar aims.
OMEP Aotearoa New Zealand is a member of the Organisation Mondiale pour l’Éducation Préscolaire (the World Organisation for Early Childhood Education, or OMEP). OMEP is an international, United Nations affiliated, interdisciplinary, voluntary, non-governmental organisation founded in 1948 in Prague, to benefit children under the age of 8 years throughout the world. The organisation provides a mee
12/11/2024
Come and join us on Monday 18th Nov at 6pm to learn more about The Phoenix Cups.
This Framework will help you understand how to meet your most important life needs, and the needs of those around you, by discovering what Cups you need to keep full, how they influence behaviours, and how you can use them to build relationships in all aspects of life.
Go to https://phoenixcups.com.au/ for more information
05/10/2022
17th October
HANDS ON WORKSHOP! Visual Arts and ECE
6pm-7.30pm at Te Rito Maioha, 191a Thorndon Quay,Wellignton
Come and join Rachel Denee, and explore some art materials, then discuss the importance of getting to know what you are offering children in advance to be a more confident and effective teacher. Please wear clothes that you are not too worried about and/or are washable. (Workshop based on the findings from Rachel’s 2022 doctoral study)
HANDS ON WORKSHOP! Visual Arts and ECE
17th October 6pm-7.30pm
Te Rito Maioha, 191a Thorndon Quay, Wellington
Come and join Rachel Denee and explore art materials together, and discuss the importance of getting to know what you are offering children in advance to be a more confident and effective teacher. Please wear clothes that you are not too worried about and/or are washable (this workshop is based on the findings from Rachel’s 2022 doctoral study)
Theory to Practice Journal now available for download. The link may work.
05/06/2022
Come and join the OMEP Whanganui-a-Tara team to unpack the Te Tiriti of Waitangi and how it applies to every aspect of our teaching practice. We will explore real life situations that happen in ECE that can be tricky or challenging for teachers or whānau Māori and explore ways to respond that support and respect the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
08/05/2022
Talking about difference Empowering children’s mana in our communities of diversity. Our next hui on 16 May. Bronwen Olds and Kerrie Duncan will present.
Tamariki learn through observation. Our tamariki are learning all the time about social, emotional, and cultural literacy; and difference and diversity, from whānau, media, and the community around them. How do we as kaiako respond to this? Join us at the May OMEP session and explore how to use storytelling and Persona Dolls to talk to our tamariki about friendship, conflicts, exclusion, difference, and diversity.
24/04/2022
Anne Meade and Amanda Higgins presented in April Children’s Environmental Kinship Guide. This has been designed by an international team to support teachers in their teaching and learning about, with, in and for nature. The resource is available currently at www.environmentalkinship.org. The guide is easy to use and beautifully presented.
The developers are looking for and welcoming feedback from around the world. The resource is really useful and inviting, looking at outcomes through the child's lens. If you are looking for more information contact us and we will forward your request.
EKI Kinship is based on the understanding that everything in the natural world is interrelated and that humans are a part of this as cohabiters.
17/04/2022
The connections between strengths and dispositions are key to one's motivation. They are unique to each of us. Elise Anderson's presentation got us to look at things differently, knowing the clues to identifying strengths. The professional discussion during the workshop was extremely stimulating. We are hoping to get her back later in the year.
APRIL 11 is our next hui.
Children’s Environmental Kinship Framework
Fostering children’s learning about, in, with and for nature
Anne Meade and Amanda Higgins have been part of an international group who have
created the Children’s Environmental Kinship Framework. This free guide can support
educators around the world to implement a nature-based curriculum and deepen children’s
understanding of environmental kinship. They will share features of the guide and how it
can help grow educators’ practice. The learning-set version on Storypark is a great way for
kaiako and families to exchange how children become guardians/kaitiaki of natural
environments. Participants will workshop ways it can be used to foster children’s on-going
learning about, in, with, and for nature.
Presentation by Anne Meade and Amanda Higgins