NZQA registered unit standard
9297 version 5
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Title
Discuss maintaining own health, wellbeing, cultural competence, and
professional integrity in an ECE service
Level
6
Purpose
Credits
5
People credited with this unit standard are able to discuss: own
health and wellbeing; maintaining own professional integrity;
and maintaining own cultural competence, in an ECE service.
This unit standard is designed for people who intend to work, or
are working with, children in an ECE service. People working
in the wider education sector may also be interested in this unit
standard.
Classification
Early Childhood Education and Care > Early Childhood:
Professional Practice
Available grade
Achieved
Explanatory notes
1
An early childhood education (ECE) service may include a centre-based service,
hospital-based service, or home-based service. The home-based service may be
nominated by the child’s parent, be the child’s own home, or the home of the
educator.
Evidence of one service is required.
2
Three 'broad age groups' are defined in Te Whāriki for children. These are
overlapping age categories and are defined as:
infant – birth to 18 months;
toddler – one year to three years;
young child – two and a half years to school entry age.
Evidence in this standard is for children as a whole group. Each of the age
categories are not intended to be assessed individually.
3
Candidates for this unit standard should be familiar with the intent of Te Tiriti o
Waitangi, which informs guidelines, procedures, and practices in the ECE sector.
4
Definition
Whānau/families may be parents, guardians, or members of the extended family who
have an interest in the child.
5
Legislation includes but is not limited to:
Children, Young Persons, and Their Families Act 1989
Education Act 1989
Education (Early Childhood Services) Regulations 2008
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Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992
Human Rights Act 1993
Privacy Act 1993
Vulnerable Children Act 2014
and subsequent amendments.
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References
Ministry of Education, Te Whāriki: He Whāriki Mātauranga mō ngā Mokopuna o
Aotearoa. Early Childhood Curriculum (Wellington, Learning Media, 1996); available
at http://www.education.govt.nz/early-childhood/teaching-and-learning/ececurriculum.
Education Council New Zealand, The Education Council Code of Ethics for
Certificated Teachers; available at http://www.teacherscouncil.govt.nz/content/codeof-ethics-certificated-teachers.
Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Discuss own health and wellbeing in an ECE service.
Range
aspects of health and wellbeing include – physical, spiritual, emotional, mental
health.
Evidence requirements
1.1
The importance of maintaining own health and wellbeing when working in an
ECE service is discussed in terms of the impacts on own practice and
colleagues.
1.2
Strategies to maintain own health and wellbeing when working in an ECE
service are discussed in terms of limiting the impacts on own practice and
colleagues.
Range
1.3
evidence of two strategies for each aspect of health and wellbeing
is required.
Own health and wellbeing are reflected on and areas for personal and
professional development are discussed in terms of working in an ECE service.
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Outcome 2
Discuss maintaining own professional integrity in an ECE service.
Evidence requirements
2.1
Issues that could compromise own professional integrity in an ECE service are
discussed in terms of the impacts on your practice with children, children’s
whānau/families, and colleagues.
Range
2.2
issues may include but are not limited to – professional distance,
use of Information Technology, substance abuse, theft, child
abuse, bullying, intellectual property, conflict of interest;
evidence of three issues is required.
Strategies for maintaining own professional integrity in an ECE service are
discussed in terms of being a trusted employee and colleague, and enhancing
own career prospects.
Range
evidence of three strategies is required.
2.3
Legal requirements that impact on own professional integrity in an ECE service
are discussed in relation to the Education (Early Childhood Services)
Regulations 2008, and own professional integrity.
2.4
Own professional integrity is reflected on and areas for personal and
professional development are discussed in terms of being a trusted employee
and colleague, and enhancing own career prospects.
Outcome 3
Discuss maintaining own cultural competence in an ECE service.
Evidence requirements
3.1
The importance of cultural competence when working in an ECE service is
discussed in terms of maintaining a respectful and safe workplace.
3.2
Strategies for own cultural competence when working in an ECE service are
discussed in terms of maintaining a respectful and safe workplace.
Range
3.3
evidence of three strategies is required.
Own cultural competence in relation to the diversity of cultures in New Zealand
is reflected on and discussed.
Planned review date
31 December 2019
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Status information and last date for assessment for superseded versions
Process
Version Date
Last Date for Assessment
Registration
1
26 March 1997
31 December 2016
Review
2
25 January 2005
31 December 2016
Review
3
17 December 2010
31 December 2017
Revision
4
8 December 2011
N/A
Rollover and
Revision
5
20 August 2015
N/A
Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR) reference
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This CMR can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Please note
Providers must be granted consent to assess against standards (accredited) by NZQA,
before they can report credits from assessment against unit standards or deliver courses
of study leading to that assessment.
Industry Training Organisations must be granted consent to assess against standards by
NZQA before they can register credits from assessment against unit standards.
Providers and Industry Training Organisations, which have been granted consent and
which are assessing against unit standards must engage with the moderation system that
applies to those standards.
Requirements for consent to assess and an outline of the moderation system that applies
to this standard are outlined in the Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR). The
CMR also includes useful information about special requirements for organisations wishing
to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for tutors
and assessors, and special resource requirements.
Comments on this unit standard
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