From simple excursions to play-based pedagogy. How to plan for children's inquiry beyond the fence and out in community.

The newly updated Early Years Learning Framework has strengthened its position on a number of pedagogical approaches, including sustainability, cultural responsiveness and place-based pedagogy, to name a few. This session will explore how early education and care and kindergarten services may choose to respond to these invitations by expanding their planning for stand-alone excursions. We will use the example of how our Thebarton Campus has implemented a ‘bush kindy’ program to give children regular weekly opportunities to revisit the same community space and build a deeper relationship with ‘place’ through encounters with community and the natural world. Please come dressed for the weather as part of this session will be at the bush Kindy location.

Links to Australian Professional Standards for Teachers

3.3 Use teaching strategies,

3.4 Select and use resources,

3.6 evaluate and improve teaching programs

Facilitated by: Eleanor Forndran

Bring your walking shoes, as this session will involve some walking with a little taster of the possibilities of spaces such as bush kindy in the Narnungga Urban Forest.