Elements and Performance Criteria
- Encourage children's independence and autonomy
- Plan and provide opportunities to develop self help skills and independence
- Provide opportunities for children to make choices, in appropriate ways
- Encourage children to accept responsibility for their own actions
- Empower children to make their own decisions and to participate in broader decision-making
- Involve child in increasingly more significant decision-making
- Foster children's self-esteem and developing self concept
- Plan opportunities for children to experience individual strengths and success
- Select experiences that present a challenge within children's emerging skills and capabilities
- Monitor child's confidence while attempting more challenging activities
- Provide acknowledgment and support if the child experiences frustration and encourage children to see 'mistakes' as opportunities to learn
- Acknowledge and appreciate children's individual and group achievements
- Design experiences to explore issues of self image and identity in ways that are appropriate to the children's level of development
- Choose learning and play resources to provide positive, non stereotypical images of children
- Provide opportunities for children to build on and extend achievements
- Provide children with opportunities to initiate and assume leadership roles
- Create opportunities and provide experiences that encourage children to express their feelings, needs and ideas
- Identify and monitor children's emotional development and expression of feelings
- Listen to and respond to children's expression of feelings and ideas
- Ensure expectations about how children express their feelings are related to child's stage of development
- Encourage and demonstrate socially appropriate ways for children to express their feelings and needs
- Provide opportunities for children to release feelings and express emotion through suitable experiences
- Encourage children to appreciate one another's achievements