Engineering creativity: Celebrating loose parts play for all ages
Engineering creativity in loose parts play’ involves open-ended and easily manipulated materials that children can use to construct, deconstruct and transport, both to support them... Read More
NAIDOC Week: Stories of practice
NAIDOC Week is a nationally significant annual event that celebrates the achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. This course will provide early learning... Read More
Putting art in place (2-part series)
Educators often think they’re not ‘arty’ or ‘creative’, but if they focus less on expertise and more on relationships, they can create truly meaningful and... Read More
STEM inquiry: Co-constructed environments for curious minds
This course is designed to encourage early childhood educators and teachers to engage in inquiry-based, child-led STEM practices. It discusses common notions of STEM and... Read More
Participatory Planning – The Floorbooks® Approach
This professional learning package has been developed by Dr Claire Warden and ECA in partnership. It includes four modules: Introduction to the Floorbooks® Approach Introduction... Read More
Playing with gratitude
This course examines the science of gratitude and how combining it with the powerful influence of co-play enables positive change in the wellbeing of children... Read More
Music in early childhood (2-part series)
Music has long been regarded as an important part of early childhood education. For young children, music can be a way of connecting with others... Read More
Encountering and interpreting the principles of Reggio Emilia Encounters (4-part series)
Discover and explore the principles of Reggio Emilia in this one-of-a-kind online professional learning series, developed by Early Childhood Australia (ECA) and the Reggio Emilia... Read More
Emotion Coaching: A transformational tool
This course discusses effective ways of guiding children with big feelings and behaviours. It explores the five steps of emotion coaching—emotional awareness, connecting, listening, naming... Read More
Delving deeper into documenting and assessing children’s learning
This course expands on the ideas and concepts outlined in the introductory course, ‘Documenting and assessing children’s learning with Dr Anne Kennedy’. It is highly... Read More