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Call for Proposals

We invite submissions on the following sub-themes:

Sub-theme 1: Inclusive practices and children’s wellness：

Children feels valued through being validated, affirmed, understood and enabled. This sub-theme aims to facilitate the discussion and sharing of good inclusive practices that promotes child engagement, executive function and social emotional development. The sub-theme hopes to go deeper to enhance support for children’s mental wellness, self-regulation and cognitive growth to empower all children to thrive.

Sub-theme 2: Teacher well-being:

Happy teachers are essential for fostering happy and thriving children in schools. This sub-theme examines how to better support the physical, emotional, and mental health of educators in early childhood education and development and how this impact on teaching effectiveness and children outcomes. We invite participants to share various efforts that has been effective in enhancing teachers’ sense of wellness.

Sub-theme 3: Positive parent-teacher-child relationships:

While we all know that it takes a village to raise a child, it is not easy to always build trusting relationships between teachers and parents. While successful efforts exists, it is not sufficiently pervasively shared. This sub-theme invites both educators and parent participants to share successes and ideas with respectful discussions on how to build productive and collaborative relationships between two significant groups of adults in every child’s life.

Sub-theme 4: Ecosystem redesign:

Systems drive behaviour. This sub-theme examines the design of better systems to support teacher agency and leadership in adapting and adjusting the curriculum to meet the needs of the children under their care. Sharing of good policy-making at the systems or schools level can be very helpful for administrators to consider how to design more schools for success.

Sub-theme 5: Effective use of AI for EC teacher efficacy development

As early childhood education continues to evolve, integrating technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) into teacher training and professional development demonstrated great potential at enhancing teacher efficacy. This sub-theme explores how AI-driven solutions can support early childhood educators in refining their skills, improving their instruction, and creating enriched learning experiences for young children.

Presentation Options

Brief Paper: A live presentation on an area of interest/research with a duration of 20min including Q&A

Workshop: An interactive small-group session on a key concept with a duration of 1 hour including Q&A

Proposal Submission Requirements

Proposals are to be written in English and submitted online via the proposal submission page.

Proposals submission and proceedings length should be between 3-5 pages (1000-3000 words)

These papers are brief, more condensed presentations or work-in-progress projects.

The submission should clearly indicate:

• What is going to be show or demonstrated or offered;
• The major aspects;
• The context or motivation
• Relevant URL or literature references

Please note that reviewers may reject submissions if the written product shows exceedingly poor grammar or structure. It is recommended that all papers and presentations be proofread or copyedited prior to submission.