Professional learning packages for early childhood teachers

Explore key elements of literacy and the practical ways it can be woven into everyday moments, rich environments and fostered with children from the earliest years.

Learn how language develops between birth and six years, with a particular focus on children who speak two or more languages.

Explore the connections between speaking and listening, reading and writing and find practical advice and reflections on how to incorporate literacy learning into everyday practice.

Learn about nurturing children’s love of books and reading, and success in learning to read.

This module explore music as an integral and vibrant part of a child’s family, community and culture, and how it can be utilised as a powerful tool for learning and development. looks at the foundations of music, ‘musicking’ and musical skills, for both educators and children.

Learn how language develops between birth and six years, with a particular focus on children who speak two or more languages.

Explore creativity as an essential part of early childhood, with a focus on building early childhood educators’ understanding of the features and values of creative processes and their outcomes.

In this book, you will find strategies to build strong relationships with parents and carers, and ways to contribute to their wellbeing.

Find information about the value of music in early childhood and examples of how you can integrate music making into children’s daily lives at home and in education and care settings.

Focuses on how educators can help very young children to learn how to understand, name and manage their emotions, and to begin regulating their own behaviour.

This webinar explores the five steps of emotion coaching: emotional awareness, connecting, listening, naming emotions and finding good solutions.

This book addresses challenging behaviours and the ways educators support children’s learning within the broader context of learning about how to get along well with others.

Find the ‘guidance approach’ to children’s behaviour, which is based on the belief that children don’t need incentives to behave thoughtfully, they need skills.

This module includes video interviews, self-reflection questions and activities designed to support a comprehensive knowledge of the Australian Early Years Learning Framework in practice.

Explores the value of play for children’s learning in the early years, why play matters and the educator’s role in supporting and extending play and learning.

Shares how critical reflection forms a crucial part of professional practice in early childhood education and care, and provides a model and suggestions for how to make critical reflection a positive part of everyday practice.

This book will help educators to understand the philosophies of the Australian Early Years Learning Framework and how they link to the requirements of the Australian National Quality Standard.

This resource is for educators who are grappling with the ‘what’, ‘why’ and ‘how’ of documenting children’s learning.

Explore some of the ways that you can incorporate and strengthen STEM in your education practice with young children. Featuring video footage from Australian early childhood settings and interviews with early childhood professionals.

This module discusses common notions of STEM and unfolds what STEM in the early years looks like. It will help educators become aware of everyday learning opportunities relevant to children’s lives and develop a basic understanding of co-constructed environments, the principles of inquiry-based learning and the concept of metacognition.

Learn how to integrate the key components of STEM thinking – investigating, revisiting, computational thinking and design thinking processes.

This book will help educators in the early childhood sector to understand the ‘what’ and ‘why’ of STEM and to learn how to implement hands-on, inquiry-based pedagogies within the STEM disciplines for young children.

Explores the importance of outdoor environments for children’s learning, and shows how educators can plan and use outdoor spaces with children.

Highlights the role of the physical environment in children’s learning to help you create creative and effective indoor learning spaces for young children.

Examine what makes a successful learning environment, how this can capture the image of childhood and how educators can create spaces that shape the behaviour of children and adults.

This book outlines the health and learning benefits of active outdoor play. It will provide educators with knowledge and ideas about outdoor environments and experiences to encourage children to step outside and be active.