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Connecting with Nature in Aged Care
Bringing nature into aged care is more than just a nice idea — it’s a key to better health and happiness for seniors. Nature has a way of maki...
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Connecting with Nature in Early Childhood Education
Nature is one of the best places for kids to spark curiosity and connection, but it doesn’t have to mean taking them out into the wilderness. Any na...
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Neurodiverse Friendly Environment in Child Care
Neurodiversity is an umbrella term that refers to a variety of differences in the way our brains process information and our behavioural traits. When ...
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Neurodiverse Friendly Environment in Aged Care
Neurodiversity is an umbrella term that covers a range of differences in the way people’s brains function, their behavioural traits, and how they pr...
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Celebrate Harmony Day in Child Care
Fostering a culture of inclusivity and unity is paramount in early childhood education, and Harmony Day presents an exceptional opportunity to do just...
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Respecting Cultural Diversity in Aged Care
Aged care is a culturally diverse sector that brings people together from many different backgrounds. This level of diversity is one of the things tha...
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Aged Care Jobs Boom In Australia
Aged care is one of Australia’s fastest growing industries. With our increasingly ageing population, aged care jobs continue to rise too. In fact, i...
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Activities for children at home
To prevent boredom from creeping in while children are stuck inside at home, we’ve put together a number of fun activities that the whole family...
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Wellness tips for working from home
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has brought about many changes in the way we approach life. The shift to working from home has been significant, a...
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What could I earn as an aged care worker?
Aged care work is rewarding, challenging and a great career path for many. But how much is an aged care salary? And how can you go about getting a job...
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Fee Free Traineeships in NSW
Now is the time to learn, with fee free traineeships available for NSW students and employers. With Government-funded traineeship courses on offer in ...
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ECEC Relief Package: What you need to know
The Australian Government has announced the Early Childhood Education and Care Relief Package in direct response to the impact of COVID-19, to support...
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Practicing mindfulness in aged care
What is mindfulness? Mindfulness is the practice of being fully aware of your body, mind and feelings in the present moment. It involves paying attent...
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Supporting study through the COVID-19 pandemic
While we navigate through this challenging time, it is important that we stay safe, connected and offer care and compassion to one another. Our dedica...
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The TOP 6 things you need to know about starting practical placement
Practical placement is a hugely beneficial element of your early childhood course, which gives you the opportunity to apply what you have been learnin...
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Practical placement journal enhances hands-on learning
Practical placement plays a crucial role in our early childhood education programs to ensure that learners gain relevant, real-life skills for an impa...
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The power of music to help manage dementia
Music has a universal effect on humans and has been reported to evoke the full range of emotions. For those living with dementia music could be integr...
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VIDEO: Supporting learners for success
The level of support and empathy provided to a learner are two key ingredients for a successful learning journey. Selmar’s dedicated, passionate...
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The TOP 9 qualities of the best personal care workers
More than just a job, working as a personal care worker or personal care assistant in aged care means you fulfil the important role of enhancing the l...
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NQS Rating: Practical strategies to improve your centre’s performance
Achieving an NQS Rating of ‘Exceeding’ is the goal for most childcare centres when undergoing their assessment under the National Quality Framewor...
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Thrive as an early childhood educator with these 9 qualities
There are many reasons to pursue a career in early childhood education and care. Careers in early childhood education can be rewarding, diverse and fu...
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Bush kinder: The benefits of learning outdoors for children
Bush kinder, inspired by the ‘forest schools’ of Denmark and Scandinavia has been doing just that. Doug Fargher, founder of Bush Kinder in Austr...
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The benefits of plants for wellbeing in the workplace
A focus on wellbeing in the workplace is vital for individuals working in care industries like childcare and aged and disability care, to be effective...
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Eco-friendly Christmas activities for children
There’s no other time of year that has brings about the level of excitement in children that Christmas does, is there?! Coming up with fresh and fun...
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Christmas presence – Mindful Christmas activities in aged care
Reducing stress, lowering blood pressure, improving sleep, relieving pain — mindfulness can have a measurable positive impact on physical and mental...
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Advance care planning: Choice and control over health and wellbeing
Linda Nolte is an aged care professional who started her career as a personal care worker. She is now the Program Director at Advance Care Planning Au...
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Building connections and promoting positive behaviour with children on the spectrum
Jess Sugarman trained as a trained Occupational Therapist. She started her career developing early intervention programs in early childhood centr...
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6 Essential tips for marketing a childcare centre
Build it and they will come? As great as that would be, creating a successful and thriving childcare centre does require some conscientious effort, es...
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Productivity enhancing tools for child care centres
Tracking enrolments, attendance and fees, documenting children’s learning, staff development and effective hiring are vital when running a successfu...
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10 awesome reasons to work in child care
Free kinder is now available to all three and four year olds at participating services in Victoria thanks to the government’s commitment of $9 billi...
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What is Skills First Funding and how do I access it?
If you’re in Victoria and you’ve been researching your government-funded course options, or looking into what government funding is available to y...
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Are you ready to study child care?
Making the decision to study for the first time or to go back to study is not always straightforward. You may be going back and forth about the decisi...
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Case study: Working with industry to improve lives
Selmar Institute of Education teamed up with the Department of Jobs and Small Business, home care provider Calvary Community Care and Ternary a sp...
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7 strategies for easing separation anxiety in children
Separation anxiety in children is a normal part of development. While it doesn’t affect all children it can be pretty common, and if you’re workin...
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Dementia Action Week 2019 – Dementia doesn’t discriminate. Do you?
In 2019 there are over 447,000 Australians who are living with dementia. According to Dementia Australia, this figure is on the increase, with around ...
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Introducing mindfulness to children
The first five years of life are fundamental to a child’s future. The most crucial period of rapid brain development takes place during these early ...
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