Kobe Study Trip – 18 to 25 March 2023

A total of 15 AECES members and Early Childhood Professionals participated in this expedition to Kobe, Japan to find out more about the Japanese early childhood education. The expedition brought them to preschools, children museum and institutions of learning whereby talks and dialogues were being planned with school leaders.

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There are 145 attendees who have joined the Indoor Gardening for Preschools Community of Practice (CoP) held on 25 May 2022, which provides a platform where all preschool educators can come together to learn and share their indoor gardening knowledge and resources.

The resouce speaker for this CoP is Ms Crissen Lee, who is also our AECES Honorary Secretary.

Crissen has over 28 years of experience in the Early Childhood sector, having held positions of consultancy and leadership in both private and government centres. As an active advocate of Early Childhood education, she has conducted numerous parenting and staff training workshops. Crissen’s expertise has led her centre to be one of the preschools in Singapore to be awarded membership into the NParks Community in Bloom Programme in 2019.

Asia Pacific Regional Network for Early Childhood Limited (ARNEC) will be organizing a webinar on “Strengthening the Early Childhood Workforce: Challenges and Opportunities for the Asia-Pacific Region“.

This webinar aims to focus on understanding the current opportunities and challenges that we may need to address at the regional level, as we work towards this issue, while also sharing the key strategies/initiatives that may support the strengthening of early childhood workforce in the region.

The objectives of this session are to:

present the status of early childhood workforce in the region and identify the priority issues;
get familiar with a range of initiatives and tools for supporting ECD workforce development in the region; and
brainstorm on the way forward for supporting early childhood workforce in the region.

Please click here for more details & to register online.

On this Vesak Day, we wish our AECES Buddhist Members and your families - peace, unity and joy on your holy day. As Buddha said, “Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.” May you be blessed by Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha. We sincerely wish you a fruitful and spiritually refreshing Vesak Day.