Ngaire teaches undergraduate and postgraduate students in all years of the Early Childhood Education program. She has also taught the course Education, Change and Society to students in various degree programs throughout the Division of Education Arts and Social Sciences.

At UniSA Ngaire provides individual tuition for international students. She has worked as a tutor in the Indigenous Tutorial Assistance Scheme through AusAid. She has been a marker for Open Universities. Prior to working at UniSA Ngaire worked with children experiencing specific learning difficulties and disabilities from Reception up to 14 years in Department of Education and Children's Services schools and preschools and in the Independent sector. She previously taught children with additional needs in the DECS Preschool Support Scheme. Ngaire's ongoing interests are to support, and promote awareness about, the identification, characteristics and experiences of Gifted children and adults.