Being an early childhood teacher or professional family nanny is one of the most rewarding jobs you could imagine – every day the children in your care learn and grow in response to the experiences you provide.

Early Childhood Teacher

A typical day might involve:

Taking care of the daily needs of children. Using your creativity and knowledge of child development to plan learning experiences. Observing children in your care to identify abilities, strengths and interests.

• Assessing their learning and development, and taking steps to make sure that each child is achieving his or her full potential.
• Developing learning resources with children.
• Acting as a role model to teach the children what is appropriate behaviour.
• Discuss children’s progress with parents, caregivers and other education professionals.
• Helping with the management of the centre or family home.

Professional Family Nanny

Many of the early childhood teaching skills that you learn while at college are also extremely useful in the family home. As a professional and highly respected family nanny, you will have lots of opportunities to help teach the children in your care. Our combined course of teaching and caring allows the Teacher to care for the children as well as teach them, and the Nanny to teach the children as well as care for them. Graduates with skills in both areas are in very high demand. Professional caring skills for early childhood teachers are in great demand with the huge increase in early childhood Nursery centres which cater for children from as young as 6 weeks old to 2 years of age. The New Zealand College of Early Childhood Education offers a complete package that will help you develop the right personal qualities and skills, and teach you everything you need to know about early childhood care and education.