All children deserve to know and feel that others care about them, know them well and are genuinely interested in what they do, think and feel. In this session you will discover how to build close, secure relationships with children of all ages, abilities, genders and backgrounds.

Come along to learn and discuss strategies and techniques to extend and build on children’s comments and conversations which form respectful and equitable relationships.

Learning Outcomes

• To discover how to build close, secure relationships with children of all ages, abilities, genders and backgrounds.
• To identify strategies and techniques to extend and build on children’s conversations.

Designed for: All educators. All service types

Quality Area: 5

EYLF Outcome: 2

Belonging, Being & Becoming

WOW! 11 years on - 2 July 2009, when COAG endorsed the Early Years Learning Framework! How much have you grown as an educator over this time? How much growth have you seen at your service? Take this opportunity to revisit the fundamentals of the EYLF through Belonging; Being and Becoming..

Learning Outcomes

• For educators to experience the sense of Belonging.
• For educators to understand the importance of Being.
• For educators to enhance the future of Becoming.

Designed for: All educators. All service types

Quality Area: 1

EYLF Outcome: 1,2,3,4 & 5

Building a strong sense of identity focuses on the importance of understanding how children construct and develop their own sense of who they are and how they develop a sense belonging within the family and community.

It will examine the importance of early experiences in relation to this. The connection between the vision, belonging, being, and becoming and the shaping of one’s identity will be discussed, and the areas of attachment, social and cultural heritage, evolving experiences and positive relationship building will be explored.

Educators will be encouraged to reflect on their own knowledge, beliefs and values, as well as critically examining documentation and the provisions within programs.

Learning Outcomes

• For educators to understand how children develop a sense of who they are.
• To assist children to develop a sense of belonging within the family and community.
• For educators to reflect on their own knowledge, beliefs and values.

Designed for: All Qualified educators. All service types

Quality Area: 5

EYLF Outcome: 1

The relationship this has to the vision of the National Early Years Learning Framework in terms of belonging, being and becoming will be examined as part of a holistic approach to children’s overall learning and development. Early childhood services who provide children with opportunities to interact together and more broadly within their communities allow children to gain important skills and feelings of validity, experience interdependency, and build on their own self identity.

The session will provide a forum where participants can reflect on their current practices in relation to connectivity and share and extend on ways to further enhance children’s contributions and connections to their world.

The session will look at diversity, social responsiveness, fairness and justice and how we can provide programs that allow children to explore and experience this.

Ideal for: Qualified Child Care Workers All Service types

Quality Area:1 & 3

EYLF Outcome: 2

Having agency means “being able to make choices and decisions to influence events and to have an impact on one’s world.” (Early Years Learning Framework, p. 45). As educators, we need to provide children with the skills, knowledge and resources, including equipment, time and space, they need to develop a sense of agency. Children will thrive when they realise that they can make their own decisions and to control their own learning and development. Join us as we explore how we can use the environment, the curriculum and the routine to support children's agency.

Learning Outcomes

• To gain an understanding of what agency is and why it is Important for children.
• To understand the Educator role in providing for children's agency.
• To explore how children's agency Influences your environment, curriculum and routines.

Designed for: All educators. All service types

Quality Area: 1

EYLF Outcome: 1 & 4

This interactive session will examine the processes children use to develop understandings of themselves and their world and how children construct their own learning strategies. In a supportive learning environment children are given the opportunity to be responsible for their own learning, choices and contributions to their world.

Through hands on active investigation children are able to develop strategies and nature of learning and are able to constantly build on and adapt what they learn to suit a variety of contexts and situations. This session will explore how early childhood educators can provide environments that instil a love of learning, support children’s learning styles and reinforce the value of hands on exploration and play in facilitating confident and involved learning.

Participants will be encouraged to consider how children learn, and how through keen observation and documentation this learning can be made visible to children and families.

Learning Outcomes

• To understand the process by which children develop their own understanding of themselves and “their” world.
• To assist children to build on and adapt what they learn to suit a variety of contexts and situations.

Designed for: All educators. All service types

Quality Area: 1 & 5

EYLF Outcome: 4

The National Early Years Learning Framework for Australia has highlighted the importance of making learning visible via a variety of methods which collectively is referred to as documentation. This focus on documentation rather than “observation” has opened up possibilities to go deeper with examining the many ways children express their understandings and learning.

Documentation includes expressing children’s own goals and describing much more than what is just seen. It brings the child to the centre of our curriculum where we look at the strengths and uniqueness of each individual as well as their learning within the social context.

The five key learning outcomes provide educators with key points of reference against which children’s progress can be documented and shared with children, families and other professionals. Respectful documentation is child centred, reflects children’s strengths and interests, and incorporates all relevant stakeholders in the reflection of learning that is occurring and has occurred within our settings.

Educators who are interested in reflecting the EYLF, and developing their skills in noticing and writing respectful and meaningful documentation will benefit by attending this interactive session as we examine the possibilities of making children’s learning visible in our programs.

Learning Outcomes

• To focus on documentation rather than observation.
• To understand the importance of incorporating children’s own goals when documenting learning.
• To examine the possibilities of making children’s learning visible in your programs.

Designed for: All educators. All service types

Quality Area: 1

EYLF Outcome: 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5

Ideal for: Qualified Child Care Workers

EYLF Outcome: 1,2,3,4,5

All children deserve to know and feel that others care about them, know them well and are genuinely interested in what they do, think and feel. In this session you will discover how to build close, secure relationships with children of all ages, abilities, genders and backgrounds.

Come along to learn and discuss strategies and techniques to extend and build on children’s comments and conversations which form respectful and equitable relationships.

Learning Outcomes

• To discover how to build close, secure relationships with children of all ages, abilities, genders and backgrounds.
• To identify strategies and techniques to extend and build on children’s conversations.

Designed for: All educators. All service types

Quality Area: 5

EYLF Outcome: 2

Learning Outcomes

• To understand how adults influence infant and toddler development
• To identify the significant relationship between educators and infants/toddlers.

Designed for: All educators. All service types

Quality Area: 5

EYLF Outcome: 1, 2, 3

This session will look at the importance of wellbeing in relation to the physical and psychological development of young children. It will examine how dispositions, confidence, resilience, and willingness to engage in learning are all affected by a strong sense of wellbeing.

The session will examine how competence in all areas of development has a direct correlation with overall learning and achievement, and the possibilities that exist within early childhood settings to provide the foundations for young children to develop skills and understandings that will impact on maintaining healthy lifestyles, making positive choices, and gaining skills that support independence and positive self esteem.

The vision of the National Early Years Framework will be examined within the context and the interrelationship between wellbeing and belonging. Being and becoming will be explored within the day to day programming and interactions that services offer to children and families.

Learning Outcomes

• To recognise the importance of fostering all children’s wellbeing
• To understand that all children are individuals who deserve to have their happiness and welfare met
• To explore the interrelationship between wellbeing and belonging

Ideal for: Qualified Child Care Workers

Quality Area: 2

EYLF Outcome: 3

Share your thoughts, or come along and listen to some ideas on implementing the values and current practice.

Learning Outcomes

• To understand how the five principles of the EYLF reflect current theories to support children’s learning and development.
• To determine how the five principles of the EYLF underpin practice that is focused on learning outcomes.
• To be able to draw on pedagogical practice to promote children’s learning.

Ideal for: All educators All service types

Quality Area: 1 & 3

EYLF Principles and Practice

Let us help you put the pieces together of the National Quality Framework (NQF)

If you are new to the sector or haven’t had many conversations regarding the NQF then this is the session for you. This session will help you understand the acronyms and terminology that will assist your understanding of the NQF. It will help unpack the documents that are shaping a positive future for the Early Childhood Sector.

If these words are not yet part of your professional vocabulary: ACECQA; National Regulations; Quality Standards; QIP; EYLF; Practices; Principles; Learning Outcomes plus more - this is a session for you.

Learning Outcomes

• To identify how the NQF has shaped the Early Childhood sector
• To gain an understanding of your role within the NQF

Designed for: All educators. All service types

Quality Area: 7

This session will examine the importance of valuing the variety of interaction styles, languages, and expressions that children make and explore how responsive early childhood environments provide opportunities for all children to express themselves and be heard and understood. It will also examine the skills and requirements of effective communication and the importance of language, literacy and numeracy in providing children with ways of engaging with ideas and communicating these ideas effectively and in a variety of ways.

Competency within language, literacy and numeracy form the foundation for successful learning and the importance of the influence of families and cultural experience will also considered in relation to working with families in partnership to support effective communication.

Learning Outcomes

• To understand the importance of extending children’s ability to communicate through thoughts, feelings and ideas.
• To examine the varied interaction styles that children learn and express.
• To form an ability as an educator to provide children with the tools to enhance language, literacy and numeracy.

Ideal for: All educators All service types

Quality Area: 1

EYLF Outcome: 5