Resource list

• Achieving successful transitions to school (PDF, 386.4 KB)
• Successful transition to school (PDF, 36.6 KB)
• Transition to school: Further readings

Voices in transitions
Parents

• Thinking about transition (1min 17sec)
• Advice to parents (1min 29sec)

Children

• Sophie (2min 10sec)
• Mary (2min 0sec)

Principals

• Our Lady of the Rosary (2min 48sec)
• West End State School (2min 52sec)

• Kindergarten teachers’ perspectives (1min 57sec)
• A Director’s perspective (2min 54sec)
• Parents’ perspectives (3min 09sec)
• Prep teachers’ perspectives (3min 05sec)
• Parents and Prep teacher perspectives (3min 19sec)

• Teacher decision-making in the early years (DOCX, 88.9 KB)

• Characteristics of learners in the early years (DOCX, 89.3 KB)
• Reflective questions (PDF, 1.7 MB)
• Classroom posters (PDF, 3.6 MB)

• Curriculum connections: English (DOCX, 89.5 KB)
• Curriculum connections: Mathematics (DOCX, 88.2 KB)

• High-quality verbal interactions
• Sustained shared thinking
• Scaffolding
• Feedback
• Higher-order thinking

• Learning through play: Information for teachers (PDF, 43.8 KB)
• Further readings and resources

• Inquiry learning: information for teachers (PDF, 42.7 KB)
• Further readings and resources

• Event-based learning: information for teachers (PDF, 29.0 KB)
• Further readings and resources

• One school's actions for continuity of curriculum and pedagogies (1min 57sec)
• Professional and collaborative decision-making (2min 40sec)

• A told story (3min 55sec)
• Preparing for a retell (3min 53sec)

Mathematics

• Numeracy learning in kindergarten: Counting (3min 43sec)
• Mathematics: Teaching and learning (4min 15sec)

• Transition from kindergarten to school: Professional conversations (4min 23sec)

• One school's networking actions  (2min 1sec)

A community's actions

• Collaborative networking (2min 1sec)