Quality Area 6 – Collaborative Partnerships With Families and Communities enables services to build respectful relationships. This provides children with the opportunity to develop a positive sense of self and experience respectful relationships. . Collaborative partnerships are achieved when the service’s philosophy has a strong commitment to valuing diversity, inclusive practice and connecting to the community.
A fizzling science experience that creates art during a chemical reaction.
Elephant toothpaste erupts a foam that children can create in this experiment that resembles toothpaste being squeezed from a tube.
Empathy can be understood as the experience of understanding another person's condition from their perspective. The trait is considered one of the most important life skills that children can learn since it not only nurtures interpersonal relationships, thereby making for a strong support network in adulthood but has been linked to positive life outcomes too. The following article provides strategies for promoting empathy in children.
Women's Costumes Around The World Posters show the clothing of women from 27 different countries. These are great for children to see how women dress in different parts of the world. This is a great way to start open conversations on diversity. These are also great to use as part of a room display.
Quality Area 4 - Staffing Arrangements requires services to have sufficient educators and staff members available at all times when children are present. Educators are likely to be responsive, purposeful and reflective when staffing arrangements at the service enable them to direct their full attention to their work with children, and when they do not have to attend simultaneously to other tasks.
Learning about similarities and differences in people can be thought of as two sides of the same coin – that of appreciating what makes people different while respecting their fundamental humanity. The following article provides strategies on how to teach children about similarities and differences in people.
Costumes Around The World Posters show the costumes of 27 different countries. These are great for children to see how people dress in different parts of the world. Using this as a discussion point, you can talk about the similarities and differences of clothes from around the world and how it compares to how the children would normally dress. This is a great way to start open conversations on diversity. These are also great to use as part of a room display.
Quality Area 3 – Physical environment is to ensure it is safe and designed to provide a range of experiences to engage children in a variety of experiences to protect children's development and learning.
Visual Motor Integration covers efficient and effective coordination between the eyes and the hands so that children are able to copy, draw or write what they see. Since children develop their handwriting based on what they see in a model and then imitate it in their own writing, they need to have effective Visual Motor Integration. The following article provides information on What Is Visual Motor Integration, VMI and Handwriting, Improving Visual Motor Skills and more.
