The ECTA Journal: Educating Young Children is published at three issues per annum and is aimed at promoting the work of early childhood educators across the State. All financial members receive a copy of each journal as part of their membership.
Educating Young Children contains a balance of theoretical and practical articles. Regular features include:
- Feature Articles
- Communications
- Stories
- Partnerships
- Media Reviews
- FINANCIAL MEMBERS - if you are logged in, access the journal on line here
- All viewers can access Journal Extracts
STYLE GUIDES, PERMISSION FORMS AND OTHER INFORMATION FOR THOSE SUBMITTING TO EYC
Those wishing to contribute to EYC will find all necessary documents on the right of the Contribute to the ECTA EYC JOURNAL page.
Registered Teachers - Continuing Professional Development (CPD) requirements
Registered teachers are advised to note the Queensland College of Teachers endorsed position on professional reading, accessing online resources and viewing video-streamed materials as contributing to their CPD requirements for renewal of teacher registration.
As ECTA cannot verify your engagement with online or other print or electronic material certificates cannot be issued for viewing of online materials such as video-streamed presentations, materials in our secure area or DVDs supplied with Journals.
ECTA recommends you record these activities on your QCT record of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) along with readings from ECTA's Educating Young Children journal under the category Professional Reading/Viewing. Evidence of the outcome of your engagement with these valuable professional development opportunities will be required. Evidence can include examples of:
· how you have incorporated ideas and/or strategies in your planning for individuals and groups of children,
· planning for parent information sessions and/or support materials
· the influence on your planning and approach to teaching and learning.
Your CPD record is a list of your professional development activities completed during the year. It should include details of the area of professional development, the topic and provider of the activity, the date and duration of the activity and which professional standards it related to. This record, together with the actual evidence of each activity is what an individual teacher would show QCT if audited.
Mathilda is looking for reviewers!!
Hello fellow early childhood teachers, carers and friends! My name is Mathilda Element, and I'm a multi-age primary teacher (Prep to Year Two) and ECTA member. I'm on the journal committee, and I help to organise book and other media reviews (CDs, DVDs, websites - you name it, if it's useful to teachers in the birth to eight years, we'll review it!). At the moment we have LOTS of lovely resources that we are hoping to give away to members in exchange for a short review - only 100 to 300 words! It's really easy to do, and you get to keep the resource, which could be a new picture book, teaching book or other educational resource. If you think you might be interested, or just want to chat some more about opportunities for profiling yourself or your program in the journal, please don't hesitate to drop me a line - my email address is mathilda@ecta.org.au.
Also, any website recommendations would be very helpful - we can pass them on to others to review if you don't want to review them yourself.
This is a photo of me and my pet turtle, Mr. T. who is the cheekiest turtle on the planet! He has many attention-getting tricks, including spitting stones at the tank and burying his filter when he wants you to come and play! The kids love it when I bring him to school, and we have many, many stories and Big Books written about his antics. (Aren't pets the most wonderful, universal teaching resource?) Cheers from Mathilda, Journal committee member.
