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New VEYLDF Outcome resource: Children are confident and involved learners
Assessment of Children as Confident and Involved Learners in Early Childhood Education and Care: Literature Review is now available on the VCAA website. The literature review is designed to support early childhood professionals to monitor children's progress in relation to the Victorian Early Years Learning and Development Framework (VEYLDF) Outcome:
Children are confident and involved learners. Early identification of learning capabilities and challenges is essential to support children's long-term social and educational outcomes.
If children are learning all the time, then understanding and describing this learning can seem like an overwhelming task. Especially in the earliest years, children's learning is deeply integrated with other aspects of their development.
Early childhood professionals need to make sense of what is occurring in these moments, to understand how they can help children take the next steps in their learning. By describing the learning that is occurring in each moment clearly and precisely, professionals can identify what is most important for children's development, and for planning their programs. These precise insights help add structure and purpose to the exciting, unpredictable experiences that occur within a play-based learning program. They are not intended to replace or restrict learning through play, but to provide a frame to ensure that professionals are pursuing meaningful goals within the play-based program, through their intentional teaching.
This literature review is part of a series of reviews designed to assist Victorian early childhood professionals to implement the VEYLDF, which aims to guide all Victorian early childhood professionals. It will be the topic of the next Early Years Twilight Seminar on Wednesday 15 May 2019 (see below).
Download a copy of the literature review from the
VCAA website.
Early Years Twilight Seminar: Wednesday 15 May 2019
The second Early Years Twilight Seminar for 2019 will launch the new VCAA resource,
Assessment of Children as Confident and Involved Learners in Early Childhood Education and Care: Literature Review.
Two of the authors, Dr Jen Jackson and Dr Dan Cloney, will participate in a conversation with Suzy Chandler, Executive Director, Curriculum, VCAA.
This seminar will be broadcast from the Bastow Institute of Educational Leadership in North Melbourne to regional and metropolitan network sites from 5.30pm to 7pm. A recording will also be available through Bastow's YouTube channel after the seminar.
Participants at Bastow and network sites will receive a printed copy of the resource at the end of the seminar. Visit the
VCAA website for full details and to register.