Preschool children have a chance to begin learning a foreign language before they start school under an expanded Early Learning Languages Australia (ELLA) program.
The Australian Government has announced that $5.9 million will be provided to make the ELLA program nationally available to all preschools from 2017.
ELLA is a series of interactive applications used on a digital device, aimed at making learning a language engaging and interesting for children in preschool. The languages that are currently available are: Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), French, Indonesian, Japanese and Spanish. In 2018, Modern Greek and Hindi will be added to the list of languages available.
Preschools interested in participating in the ELLA program will need to meet eligibility criteria before applying which includes:
- services must offer a preschool program to children in the year before schooling
- the preschool educator must be a degree qualified ECT
- have internet/WI FI connection
For more information on the ELLA Program and Applying: Early Learning Languages Australia
Due to a new enterprise agreement with Goodstart Early Learning, Goodstart workers voted to approve the new agreement which will deliver a 10 per cent
‘Navigating Autism: The Early Years’ is a free online training program designed to empower early childhood educators supporting autistic children with practical tools and strategies
More than 6400 former students' qualifications and/or statements of attainment have been revoked by the Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA) of Registered Training Organisation (RTO)
The Commonwealth Teaching Scholarships Program (the Program) provides up to $40,000 to new undergraduate and up to $20,000 to new postgraduate teacher education students.
The Health and Development Participation (HDP) Grant Program aims to increase the number of free health and development checks provided to 4-year-old children within early