CONTENTSC
Coordinator
The person who has primary responsibility for overseeing the education and care, comfort, and health and safety of the children, and providing professional leadership and support to educators within the service.
Curriculum
In early childhood means the “sum total of experiences, activities and events, whether direct or indirect, which occur within an environment designed to foster children’s learning and development”.
E
Educator
The person with the designated role of providing education and care directly to children in his or her care and attends to the health and safety of those children.
K
Kaiako
Teacher.
Kōhanga reo
Māori language early childhood centres which come under the umbrella of Te Kōhanga Reo National Trust.
M
Matua
Parent or father.
Mātua
Parents.
P
Papa kāinga
Residential area located around or in close proximity to the marae.
Parent
The person (or people) responsible for having the role of providing day-to-day care for the child and may include a biological or adoptive parent, stepparent, partner of a parent, legal guardian or member of the child’s whānau.
T
Tamaiti/tamariki
Child/children.
Tangata whenua
Indigenous people of the land.
Te reo Māori
The Māori language.
Tikanga
Customary practices.
W
Whānau
- Family.
- The person (or people) responsible for having a role in the care and education of the child and may include grandparents, aunties and uncles, nieces and nephews, and other relatives.
