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Susanne Garvis
Professor of Early Childhood Education, Griffith University
The Queensland kindergarten learning guideline that's based on the Early Learning Framework provides teachers with practices, principles and the continua of learning to support them in their work.
This includes strategies around intentional teaching and also really supports that notion of age appropriateness for all young learners.
There are five learning and development areas that really help shape the focus of learning and development for each child. So, it's important that we are thinking about planning in these areas, but also the assessing of these areas as well as part of the learning cycle.
Teachers are experts in child development and they're able to, from the evidence, make critical reflections around what the child knows, but also how to plan and support it further within the continua of learning.
Early childhood teachers really understand the importance of different learning situations and the role and support that is needed, whether it be in group work or individual activities within those learning situations and it's also then thinking about the intentionality of what the learning goal is, or the learning aim, but also how much teacher prompting or teacher strategy is actually needed within that space as well.
- Last updated:
- 10 November 2025
