Early Learning Matters

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.

Learn about the AEDC's value and impact on child development in Australia. Discover the data collection process and indicators used to assess student needs and strengths. Explore a school's success in improving family engagement and developmental vulnerability.

How to engage with the AEDC data

The podcast explores the effective use of transition to school statements to create a supportive learning environment and guide class placements. It emphasizes the importance of collaboration between early childhood and early stage one teachers, as well as communication between preschool and kindergarten teachers, in supporting children's needs during their transition to school.

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.

Educators Jacqui Ward, Linda De Marcellis, and Juliana Lagana discuss intentional mathematics and numeracy learning in the early years. Topics include explicit teaching, diverse representations, fostering a mathematically rich environment, purposeful questioning, sustained conversations, talk moves, and guiding students in making sense of mathematical concepts.

In this podcast, Jacqui Ward, Juliana Lagana and Linda De Marcellis discuss the importance of numeracy in early childhood and school curriculum. They explore the significance of dispositions and working mathematically in numeracy education, nurturing curiosity and wonder in mathematics for early years, understanding the interconnection between mathematics and numeracy, and connecting teachers and students in understanding numeracy.

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