Child Care Industry News February 10, 2015 - CareforKids.com.au®
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Child Care Industry News
February 10, 2015
Welcome this week learn about a free program by Harvard University designed to promote executive function and self-regulation in children and meet our Child Care Person in the Spotlight Aisling White from the Goodstart Early learning Centre in Darwin. Aisling represented NT/SA in the Educator of the Year category at the 2014 Australian Family Early Education and Care Awards.
Building EF/SR skills in kids
Harvard University's Centre on the Developing Child has released a guide on how to promote and enhance executive function and self-regulation (EF/SR) skills in children.

According to the Centre on the Developing Child, EF/SR skills are the mental processes that enable us to plan, focus attention, remember instructions, and juggle multiple tasks successfully. The centre says that while children are not born with these skills, they have the opportunity to develop them through engaging in a range of age-appropriate activities at home and in early childhood settings.

The Centre website says that EF/SR skills depend on three types of brain function: working memory, mental flexibility, and self-control. These functions are highly interrelated. Each type of skill draws on elements of the others, and the successful application of executive function skills requires them to operate in coordination with each other.
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Child care person in the spotlight:
Aisling White
Aisling White from the Goodstart Early learning Centre in Darwin. Aisling represented NT/SA in the Educator of the Year category at the 2014 Australian Family Early Education and Care Awards.

What is your name?
My name is Aisling White, the children call me Miss Ash, Miss Ashely White or Miss Ashy and I am 26 years old.

Which centre do you work in? How many staff and children are in the centre?
I work at Goodstart Early Learning in Darwin. We have 21 staff and full occupancy on a daily basis is 75 so we average over 100 children depending on full time and part time.

What is your professional background and career experience?
I studied B.A in Accounting and didn't like it, then did a course in Special needs in Ireland. In Ireland I worked for a few months here and there as a classroom assistant, voluntary work and I babysat children since I was 13 years old. I minded a girl with autism for many years this is what inspired me to do the course on Special needs.
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