The essentials professional learning package

The National Quality Framework sets a benchmark for the quality of education and care services. This course will assist educators who are new to the education and care sector to orientate themselves and understand the regulatory framework in which they operate.

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Refresh your understanding of Belonging, Becoming and Being: Early Years Learning Framework (V2.0). Following updates to the Early Years Learning Framework in 2023, this professional learning course steps educators through the national document, including the recent changes. This course also offers professional practice and curriculum decision-making strategies that support teaching and learning to consistent with high-quality practices for the Australian context.

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Routines and transitions: Embracing opportunities for learning course is designed for early childhood education and care professionals at all stages of their careers. It encourages them to reflect on the routines and transitions they currently have in their settings and explains how they can be enhanced and attuned to build better relationships with children and families. 

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Play offers children opportunities to engage with the world around them. Being intrinsically motivated and freely chosen, it allows children control over their actions and their learning. Play also helps children develop their self-regulation and problem-solving capacity, and it enriches their vocabulary and language skills.

Today, nearly 200 years after Froebel first argued for its importance in children’s lives, play remains an essential part of effective early childhood learning. This is reflected in the Early Years Learning Framework when it describes play as a ‘context for learning through which children organise and make sense of their social worlds, as they actively engage with people, objects and representations’.

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Coming from the Greek word ethos meaning ‘character’, the word ethics describes ways of being, thinking and acting based on one’s values and virtues. A code of ethics, by extension, is a set of clearly defined and distinctive values and virtues collectively regarded as important by members of a profession. It includes key statements and commitments that guide professionals on how to act in relation to their work and those they work with.

This course, presented by Catharine Hydon, delves into the ECA Code of Ethics and examines what it means to be ethical. It also explores how early childhood educators can use the code to strengthen relationships with children, families, colleagues, communities and the profession. The course includes interviews with various early childhood educators, showing how they apply the ECA Code of Ethics in everyday situations.

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