The QKLG and EYLF V2.0 are complementary documents. The EYLF V2.0 is the nationally approved framework for early childhood education and care services in Australia. It informs educational program and practice for children from birth to five years.
The QKLG provides the specific learning for kindergarten that is aligned to the EYLF V2.0. The QKLG is designed to support quality teaching, learning and assessment in Queensland kindergartens.
As shown in Table 1, the QKLG identifies eight principles, seven practices and five learning and development areas that inform kindergarten programs. Table 2 shows how the five EYLF V2.0 broad learning outcomes align to the QKLG learning and development areas.
Table 1: QKLG principles, practices and learning and development areas| Principles | Practices | Learning and development areas |
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Respectful relationships
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Adopting holistic approaches
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Identity
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Collaborative partnerships
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Interacting with and responding to children
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Connectedness
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High expectations, equity and respect for diversity
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Engaging in responsive planning and decision-making
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Wellbeing
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Effective pedagogies
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Creating inclusive learning environments
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Active learning
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives
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Facilitating play-based learning
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Communicating
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Sustainability
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Using intentional teaching strategies
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Collaborative leadership and teamwork
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Assessing children’s learning
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Critical reflection
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Table 2: Alignment of learning between EYLF V2.0 and QKLG| EYLF V2.0 Learning outcomes and key components | QKLG Learning and development areas and key focuses |
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Children have a strong sense of identity |
Identity
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- Children feel safe, secure and supported
- Children develop their emerging autonomy, inter-dependence, resilience and agency
- Children develop knowledgeable, confident self-identities and a positive sense of self-worth
- Children learning to interact in relation to others with care, empathy and respect
| - Building a sense of security and trust
- Acting with independence and perseverance
- Building a confident self-identity
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Children are connected with and contribute to their world
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Connectedness
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- Children develop a sense of connectedness to groups and communities and an understanding of their reciprocal rights and responsibilities as active and informed citizens
- Children respond to diversity with respect
- Children become aware of fairness
- Children become socially responsible and show respect for the environment
| - Building positive relationships
- Showing respect for diversity
- Showing respect for environments
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Children have a strong sense of wellbeing
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Wellbeing
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- Children become strong in their social, emotional and mental wellbeing
- Children become strong in their physical learning and wellbeing
- Children are aware of and develop strategies to support their own mental and physical health and personal safety
| - Building increasing autonomy and resilience
- Engaging with ways to be healthy and safe
- Building physical wellbeing
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Children are confident and involved learners
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Active learning
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- Children develop a growth mindset and learning dispositions such as curiosity, cooperation, confidence, creativity, commitment, enthusiasm, persistence, imagination and reflexivity
- Children develop a range of learning and thinking skills and processes such as problem solving, inquiry, experimentation, hypothesising, researching and investigating
- Children transfer and adapt what they have learned from one context to another
- Children resource their own learning through connecting with people, place, technologies and natural and processed materials
| - Building positive dispositions toward learning
- Showing confidence and involvement in learning
- Engaging with technologies for learning and communication
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Children are effective communicators
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Communicating
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- Children interact verbally and non-verbally with others for a range of purposes
- Children engage with a range of texts and gain meaning from these texts
- Children express ideas and make meaning using a range of media
- Children begin to understand how symbols and pattern systems work
- Children use digital technologies and media to access information, investigate ideas and represent their thinking
| - Engaging with and expanding language
- Building literacy in personally meaningful ways
- Building numeracy in personally meaningful ways
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