Early Years Learning Framework

Practices

Practices relates to how we put our Principles into action by working together with children, their families and within our community. The Early Years Learning Framework promotes children’s learning by drawing upon a repertoire of pedagogical practices (using our skills and knowledge to enable us to help children to learn). These include the following:

Teaching and learning through recognition of the mind, body and spirit. Paying attention to a child’s physical, personal, social and emotional, cognitive and spiritual wellbeing aspects of learning. Foster and enhance children’s understanding of the natural environment and the connections between people, plants, animals and the land.

Building on each child’s past and present experiences enables them to feel secure, confident and connected to people, events and situations that they are familiar with. Transitions between settings offer opportunities and challenges. Assist children in understanding the traditions, routines and practices of the settings to ease the transition process and to help deal with any changes that may occur.

Let them be little

1.1 Children feel safe, secure, and supported

1.2 Children develop their emerging autonomy, inter-dependence, resilience and sense of agency

1.3 Children develop knowledgeable and confident self identities

1.4 Children learn to interact in relation to others with care, empathy and respect

4.1 Children develop dispositions for learning such as curiosity, cooperation, confidence, creativity, commitment, enthusiasm, persistence, imagination and reflexivity

4.2 Children develop a range of skills and processes such as problem solving, inquiry, experimentation, hypothesising, researching and investigating

4.3 Children transfer and adapt what they have learned from one context to another

4.4 Children resource their own learning through connecting with people, place, technologies and natural and processed materials

5.1 Children interact verbally and non-verbally with others for a range of purposes

5.2 Children engage with a range of texts and gain meaning from these texts

5.3 Children express ideas and make meaning using a range of media

5.4 Children begin to understand how symbols and pattern systems work

5.5 Children use information and communication technologies to access information, investigate ideas and represent their thinking

Early Years Learning Framework

Early Years Learning Framework

Practices

Let them be little

Early Years Learning Framework

"Play is the highest form of research" - Albert Einstein