Building Meaningful Connections: Respectful Teaching with Infants and Toddlers
As educators belonging is at the centre of our curriculum; we value secure relationships and a culture of connectedness and continuity in our learning environments for very young children.
But have you ever wondered what the EYLF practice of ‘playbased learning and intentionality’ might involve when working in an infant-toddler program?
Or what our ‘curricula’ is when we place relationships at the centre of our teaching and learning? In this session we will consider what respectful teaching approaches with very young children entails, and how it can be both holistic and purposeful, emergent and child-led.
Links to Australian Professional Standards for Teachers
1.1 Physical, social and intellectual development and characteristics of students 1.2 Understand how students learn
1.5 Differentiate teaching to meet the specific learning needs of students across the full range of abilities