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Writing Prompts For Evaluations, Reflections and Children Documentation

Writing Prompts For Evaluations, Reflections and Children Documentation

As an Educator, it's important to assess and document children's learning. This refers to gathering and analysing information about what children know, can do and understand. It is part of a cycle that includes planning, documenting and evaluating children’s learning.
Guide To The Reggio Emilia Approach

Guide To The Reggio Emilia Approach

Developed in northern Italy after the Second World War, the Reggio Emilia is a child-centred approach to early childhood education. It puts a child’s sense of self-worth and agency at the heart of its pedagogical ideas and its practices are…
Portfolios Making Learning Visible and Accessible

Portfolios Making Learning Visible and Accessible

Child portfolios are a form of pedagogical documentation that includes learning samples like artwork, writings, educator observations, individual and group learning stories and photographs - a visual aid of children's learning and development. The following article provides information on the…
Pedagogical Documentation

Pedagogical Documentation

In an early childhood setting pedagogical documentation refers to the practice of collecting and displaying evidence of the different ways children think and learn over a specific period of time. The following article provides strategies for collecting pedagogical documentation for…
Formative Assessment Practices In Early Childhood Settings

Formative Assessment Practices In Early Childhood Settings

In the early education context, assessment for learning is best practised as a “process of gathering and analysing information as evidence about what children know, can do and understand”, according to the EYLF. The approved learning framework is categorical that…
Learning Dispositions

Learning Dispositions

Experts on early childhood education have for some time believed that much more than the content of learning – like numeracy, literacy and science concepts – it is the acquiring of learning dispositions that ensure the best academic outcomes in…
Learning Stories For Assessment

Learning Stories For Assessment

The EYLF explains assessment for children’s learning as the process of gathering and analysing information as evidence about what children know, can do and understand. It is a key part of an ongoing cycle that includes planning, documenting and evaluating…
Reflection Questions For Quality Area 6

Reflection Questions For Quality Area 6

While reflecting it forces us to analyse different aspects of experiences we offer to make judgements in what should be repeated, extended or changed. This enables us to develop and extend on children’s learning and build upon their knowledge and…
Reflection Questions For Quality Area 2

Reflection Questions For Quality Area 2

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 childhood setting.
Reflection Questions For Quality Area 1

Reflection Questions For Quality Area 1

A reflection allows us to analyze our experiences, make changes based on our mistakes, keep doing what is successful, and build upon our knowledge.
Incorporating Practical Life Activities Into The Curriculum

Incorporating Practical Life Activities Into The Curriculum

Based on the Montessori approach, Practical Life activities are everyday life experiences that a child may observe adults complete in their daily routine. These activities give the child a sense of belonging as they gain knowledge to accomplish life skills…
Documentation Services Require To Support Quality Area 2

Documentation Services Require To Support Quality Area 2

Quality Area 2 – Children's Health and Safety requires all stakeholders to have responsibility for supporting the health, protection, safety and wellbeing of all children. In exercising their responsibilities, they must take reasonable care to protect children from foreseeable risk…
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