Play-based learning in schools

Jacqui Ward and Nicci McDowell discuss the updates to the Early Years Learning Framework. This includes providing an overview of the key changes and what educators need to do to be ready for 2024 implementation.

Nicole Burgess and Sarah Wenham join Jacqui Ward to discuss the importance of play-based learning in early years.

Sibylle Seidler, Heike Hendershot and Haley Bates from Little Scientist join Jacqui Ward to discuss the importance of STEM in the early years.

What is the AEDC and what type of information is in the AEDC?

How to engage with the AEDC data

Lisa Wicks talks to a Kindergarten and Preschool teacher from Woy Woy public school about using the transition to school statement effectively

This is the third podcast in a series about numeracy in the early years. In this podcast, Jacqui Ward, Linda De Marcellis and Juliana Lagana discuss the numeracy concepts. They provide links to research that highlight the importance of developing strong understandings of these concept in early childhood and examples and resources to support educators broaden their understanding of how these concepts fit together to develop children’s numeracy skills.

This is the second podcast in a series about numeracy in the early years. In this podcast, Jacqui Ward, Linda De Marcellis and Juliana Lagana discuss the intentional and explicit teaching of numeracy in the early years. They unpack the importance of planning for intentional mathematics and numeracy learning and highlight pedagogical practices that support that planning. They provide links to research and resources around mathematical talk and touch on some practical strategies and tools that teachers can use to enhance their intentional teaching.

This is the first podcast in a series about numeracy in the early years. In this podcast, Jacqui Ward, Juliana Lagana and Linda De Marcellis discuss the importance of numeracy in both early childhood and school curriculum. They clarify the relationship and interconnectedness of mathematics and numeracy and speak about how numeracy development in the early years supports later learning.

This podcast explores the importance of creative arts in the early years including early childhood and the first years of school.