The following eight principles are central to early childhood teaching and learning and underpin the professional practice of kindergarten teachers and educators. These principles promote ways of working that support continuity of learning and positive transitions, including transitions to school.
QKLG 2024
- Familiarisation and planning resources
- Purpose
- Principles
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Practices
- Adopting holistic approaches
- Interacting with and responding to children
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Engaging in responsive planning and decision-making
- Planning with small groups of children
- Documenting Liam’s learning
- Observing Nhi’s learning
- Designing quality kindergarten programs with the QKLG
- Making planning decisions in kindergarten
- Planning intentional learning and teaching in kindergarten
- Planning for and monitoring learning and development
- Responsive decision-making in kindergarten
- Reviewing learning priorities in kindergarten
- Creating inclusive learning environments
- Facilitating play-based learning
- Using intentional teaching strategies
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Assessing children’s learning
- Assessing play-based learning
- Intentionality: The role of the teacher in assessment
- Monitoring: a planned approach to transition
- Gathering evidence for assessing children's learning
- Using evidence to inform planning in kindergarten
- Reviewing evidence to make judgments at the time of transition
- Using assessment to guide kindergarten planning
- Continua of learning and development
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Learning and development areas
- Identity
- Connectedness
- Wellbeing
- Active learning
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Communicating
- Stories for language and literacy
- Reading stories to build literacy
- Extending on stories to build literacy
- Playing with stories to build literacy
- Building awareness of sounds in words through play
- Building literacy for all learners
- Numeracy learning in kindergarten — Number and counting
- Engaging in numeracy games in kindergarten
- Exploring writing behaviours in kindergarten
- Inclusive practice in Communicating
- Expanding vocabulary in kindergarten
- Phonological and phonemic awareness in kindergarten
- Supporting transitions and continuity of learning
