Free State MEC for Education, Tate Makgoe will reward best teaching practices and giverecognition to deserving Early Childhood Development practitioners on Friday, 1 October 2020 bypresenting the South African Early Childhood Development Awards.
The core aims of the awards are to create awareness of the vital role that Early Childhood Development and education play in nation building and promoting excellence in the ECD sector.
The SAECD promote and recognise excellence, hard work, dedication and investment in the future of children by individual practitioners, community centres, and organizations involved in the Early Childhood Development sector.
The awards highlight the need for a proper integrated system of ECD considering children's health, nutrition, education and psychosocial and additional environmental factors within the context of their family and community.
The awards were initiated in 2003 by the Amalgamated Banks of South Africa (ASA) and SACECD and are geared towards encouraging ECD centres to be registered and to apply best practice in the physical, cognitive, emotional and spiritual development of children.
The South African Early Childhood Development Awards has four categories, which are as follows:
1. Home based centre of the year: community based centre of the year
2. Resource and training organisation of the year: ECD practitioner of the year
3. Book for young children for the year
4. Innovative ECD programme of the year
Details of the ABSA Sowetan Early Childhood Development Awards are as follows:
Date: 1 October 2010
Time: 09h30
Venue: Protea Hotel (Bloem Plaza)
Inquiries:
Howard Ndaba
Cell: 079 503 5485
Source: Department of Education, Free State Provincial Government
South African Early Childhood Development Awards (SAECDA)
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