Elements and Performance Criteria
- Elements define the essential outcomes.
- Establish a learning environment that reflects children’s interests
- Provide opportunities for children to plan and/or modify their indoor and outdoor environments
- Design indoor and outdoor environments that are vibrant, flexible and support children’s learning
- Ensure design of indoor and outdoor environments is responsive to the interests and abilities of each child
- Provide materials and resources that are natural and familiar
- Give children access to materials and resources that provoke interest
- Provide opportunities that stimulate learning and development
- Allow children to direct their own play and leisure experiences with peers
- Create possibilities for peer scaffolding
- Encourage children to gain skill and competence by persevering with a developmentally significant activity
- Create opportunities for learning through play and intentional teaching
- Support play experiences initiated by children
- Organise routines in ways that maximise opportunities for each child’s learning
- Design, implement and evaluate learning experiences for children
- Use children’s observations and their views to guide the program
- Develop the curriculum in consultation with educators and stakeholders
- Design and implement learning experiences to foster learning and development, and to reflect children’s interests
- Ensure the program is sufficiently flexible to respond to unplanned children’s interests
- Assess and evaluate planned and unplanned teaching and learning
- Ensure the program provides opportunities to follow-up activities of high interest
- Support children to participate
- Consult with children about the experiences and materials to be made available
- Acknowledge each child’s uniqueness in positive ways
- Support children’s efforts, assisting and encouraging as appropriate
- Develop awareness and respond to children who may require additional support or attention
- Encourage each child to participate in a variety of experiences
- Demonstrate respect for a child’s choice not to participate
- Establish a learning environment that reflects children’s interests
- Provide opportunities for children to plan and/or modify their indoor and outdoor environments
- Design indoor and outdoor environments that are vibrant, flexible and support children’s learning
- Ensure design of indoor and outdoor environments is responsive to the interests and abilities of each child
- Provide materials and resources that are natural and familiar
- Give children access to materials and resources that provoke interest