Live Webinar - Poverty and ECE: Supporting tamariki and whānau who face economic hardship

Live Webinar - Wednesday 27 May 2026, 7-8pm

This webinar focuses on teaching children from whānau who face economic disadvantage and, in some cases, live in poverty. This is an opportunity for ECE kaiako to share and discuss their own teaching experiences, including the challenges. We will also share what current research tells us about teaching in this area of diversity so teachers can become part of the solution and not part of the problem.

This PLD event will suit Student ECE teachers and qualified ECE teachers.

The learning goals you will achieve from this live webinar will be:

• You will be able to share and discuss challenges that you face in your teaching.
• You will learn what the latest research tells us about poverty and ECE.
• You will reflect on your own values and beliefs in relation to poverty.
• You will learn what you can do to support tamariki and whānau who face economic hardship.

Presenter Lesley Robinson, Senior Lecturer | Pūkenga matua, Te Rito Maioha

Lesley has had teaching and course development experience in a range of initial teacher, graduate and post-graduate programmes with Te Rito Maioha and has also been involved in a number of research projects. Lesley’s broad and enduring interests are ECE curriculum and critical pedagogy. Prior to her current mahi, she taught in a community-based care and education centre both with infants and toddlers and with young children.