I’m pretty sure most early years educators would agree with me if I said the administration, planning and documentation requirements of…
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Summative Assessments for Early Learning
No time to read the whole blog post? Listen to me reading it instead by clicking or tapping play below! Early…
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Creating Paperless Child Portfolios (Includes Video!)
There are a lot of early childhood educators and early years teachers that use child portfolios as part of their…
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Early Childhood Programming Made Simple – Part 3 Analysis & Reflection
Welcome to Part 3 in my programming made simple series for educators and early childhood teachers! You can catch up by…
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Early Childhood Programming Made Simple – Part 2 Using Observations Effectively
Welcome to Part 2 in my programming series for educators and early childhood teachers! If you missed Part 1 you…
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Early Childhood Programming Made Simple but Effective – Part 1
Programming and planning is stressing a lot of early year’s educators out at the moment and that is unfortunate because…
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Sustainability – How can Early Years Educators show evidence of embedded practice?
The Australian Early Years Framework (EYLF) and indeed most early years frameworks across the international early childhood community asks educators…
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A Week of Play Based Learning – Ideas, Activities and Inspiration
Welcome to a new year of my weekly play based learning posts. It is my aim to inspire, support and…
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Analysis, Reflection and Evaluation in Early Childhood Programming.
Australian early childhood educators are expected to develop and follow a planning cycle as well as meet EYLF (Early Years…
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Working with the Framework Learning Outcomes – Part 1 LINKING
Let’s have a chat about linking the EYLF outcomes and your programming cycle. Because from what I can see the often misunderstood…
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Understanding Observations, Reflection and Linking in Early Childhood Settings.
I still remember learning about child observations when I was studying my Diploma over 25 years ago now. The best…
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Child Portfolios in Early Childhood Settings – Are they Necessary?
One of the questions I am most often asked by other educators working in the early childhood profession with the…
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