Reference no: EM133672551

Homework: Principles and Practices in Early Childhood Education

Length: 2000 words.

Learning Outcomes

1) Develop the knowledge and skills regarding setting up learning environments for children that are flexible and sustainable both indoors and outdoors.

2) Reflect upon, and critique the holistic approaches of principles and practices.

Task Description

This task requires you to reflect upon the Early Years Learning Framework [EYLF] (AGDE, 2022) principles and practices and write a report demonstrating your ability to identify and critique high-quality early childhood pedagogy.

Rationale

Early childhood educators are required to understand the importance of high-quality practice and be able to identify what high-quality practice looks like. In this homework, you will be asked to identify high-quality practice and determine the principles, theory and research that under pins such practice. This homework aims to develop your understanding of how to align practice, principles, theory and research.

Instructions

The Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF) is a crucial document for early childhood education and care. You are to write a report that demonstrates your knowledge and understanding of how the EYLF principles and practices support high-quality pedagogy.

Your critical reflection should be written in an essay that critically analyses three EYLF Principles (two of which are Respect for diversity AND Sustainability; and one is your choice), and three EYLF Practices (two of which are Responsiveness to children AND Learning environments; and one is your choice). As part of your critical analysis, you will include your personal reflections on how you anticipate implementing these three principles and three practices, in high-quality early childhood education and care settings, to support best practice.

Your report should include an introduction that explains how the EYLF guides high-quality pedagogy, body paragraphs and a conclusion, with in-text citations and references to academic literature to support your perspectives.

The EYLF Principles and Practices that you can choose from are listed below (the compulsory principles and practices are in bold):

I. Principles:

1) Secure, respectful and reciprocal relationships
2) Partnerships
3) Respect for diversity (compulsory)
4) Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives
5) Equity, inclusion and high expectations
6) Sustainability (compulsory)
7) Critical reflection and ongoing professional learning
8) Collaborative leadership and teamwork

II. Practices:

1) Holistic, integrated and interconnected approaches
2) Responsiveness to children (compulsory)
3) Play-based learning and intentionality
4) Learning environments (compulsory)
5) Cultural responsiveness
6) Continuity of learning and transitions
7) Homework and evaluation for learning, development and wellbeing

Follow the steps below to complete this task:

1) Create a new Word Document and save it with your surname and initial and the homework task's name. E.g: MillsA_TCHR5003_homework2_report

2) Create a cover page with the following details:

a) Student name
b) Student ID
c) Unit code
d) Unit Assessor and Tutor names
e) Date submitted

3) Complete one reference list for the entire homework task.