Here's a breakdown of Exceeding Theme 3: Meaningful Engagement with Families and/or the Community across Quality Areas 1 to 7, tailored to your advocacy lens. This theme is all about co-constructing practice with families and communities—ensuring their voices shape decisions, environments, and outcomes.
Here's a comprehensive breakdown of Exceeding Theme 2:Practice is Informed by Critical Reflection across all quality areas 1 to 7 of the National Quality Standard (NQS). This theme emphasizes how services use deep, ongoing reflection to inform and improve their practices—not just occasionally, but as a core part of their culture.
By embedding high-quality practices, services demonstrate an unwavering commitment to continuous improvement, educator collaboration, and responsive engagement with children, families, and communities. This introduction sets the foundation for exploring how Exceeding Theme 1 is applied across Quality Areas 1 to 7, shaping a truly exceptional early childhood environment.
Here is the list of the EYLF Learning Outcomes that you can use as a guide or reference for your documentation and planning. The EYLF… Read More
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Reflective practice is learning from everyday situations and issues and concerns that arise which form part of our daily routine while working in an early… Read More
Within Australia, Programming and Planning is reflected and supported by the Early Years Learning Framework. Educators within early childhood settings, use the EYLF to guide… Read More
When observing children, it's important that we use a range of different observation methods from running records, learning stories to photographs and work samples. Using… Read More
This is a guide for educators on what to observe under each sub learning outcome from the EYLF Framework, when a child is engaged in… Read More
The Early Years Learning Framework describes the curriculum as “all the interactions, experiences, activities, routines and events, planned and unplanned, that occur in an environment… Read More
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