Elements and Performance Criteria
- Elements define the essential outcomes.
- Develop appropriate settings and environments
- Evaluate and modify the learning environment and materials to support all aspects of children’s learning, and promote opportunities for sustained shared thinking and collaborative learning
- Assess and modify the learning environment and materials to ensure that families and the community are respected
- Implement learning environment modifications
- Promote an appreciation of the natural environment
- Design and implement curriculum in consultation with others
- Design learning experiences to foster children’s learning and development
- Collect data on each child
- Analyse data collected to identify each child’s interests, strengths and goals in conjunction with the approved learning framework
- Clarify specific objectives, learning environment, role of the educator and assessment/evaluation methods and evidence using the approved framework’s learning outcomes, principles and practices
- Design learning experiences to foster holistic learning and to provide continuity of learning and transitions
- Plan for ways to monitor and assess children’s learning, consistent with the principles and practices of the approved framework, ensuring that both planned and unplanned experiences are considered for assessment
- Implement learning experiences to foster children’s learning and development
- Ensure that required materials are identified and available at time of implementation
- Set up the physical learning environment
- Co-construct meaning with children and ensure there are sustained interactions
- Model and promote enabling learning dispositions
- Monitor and reflect on children’s learning and own pedagogical practices and continuously refine
- Assess and evaluate planned and unplanned teaching and learning
- Use or establish opportunities to gather feedback from families and children
- Collect data using a range of methods in order to assess and evaluate teaching and learning, both planned and unplanned, using approved frameworks
- Ensure assessment and evaluation of the curriculum and learning experiences are regular and in accordance with service guidelines
- Use assessment and evaluation to influence the design of future curriculum and learning experiences
- Design learning experiences to foster children’s learning and development
- Collect data on each child
- Analyse data collected to identify each child’s interests, strengths and goals in conjunction with the approved learning framework
- Clarify specific objectives, learning environment, role of the educator and assessment/evaluation methods and evidence using the approved framework’s learning outcomes, principles and practices
- Design learning experiences to foster holistic learning and to provide continuity of learning and transitions
- Plan for ways to monitor and assess children’s learning, consistent with the principles and practices of the approved framework, ensuring that both planned and unplanned experiences are considered for assessment
- Implement learning experiences to foster children’s learning and development
- Ensure that required materials are identified and available at time of implementation
- Set up the physical learning environment
- Co-construct meaning with children and ensure there are sustained interactions
- Model and promote enabling learning dispositions
- Monitor and reflect on children’s learning and own pedagogical practices and continuously refine