The CHILD Australia Resource Centre has acquired some fantastic new Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF) resources which are now available for loan to members. Please contact the staff on 9270 6618 or email library@childaustralia.org.au to request any of the books below. Or if you would like to become a member there is a membership form attached.
Goodfellow, Joy. 2009, The Early Years Learning Framework: Getting Started
This book is specifically designed to both introduce and support early childhood educators in coming to know about, understand and work with the Early Years Learning Framework. Topics covered include:
Essential understanding underpinning the framework; getting started with the ELYF; understanding the learning outcomes; sharing understandings about the framework with other educators and families; and assessment for planning.
Arthur, Leonie. 2010, Early Years Learning Framework: Building Confident Learners
Children will take many different pathways in their learning. It is important that we expect all children to succeed and make progress towards meeting the learning outcomes in their own way and in their own time. Author Leonie Arthur, a member of the consortium responsible for the development and trialing of the EYLF, uses practical examples in this book to show how some children demonstrate their progress towards meeting these outcomes and how some early childhood settings plan, document and reflect on children's learning. This book will help you understand: dispositions, learning processes, how children transfer and adapt learning from one context to another, how children resource their own learning and how we can help children to be confident and involved learners
Lubawy, Joy. 2010, The Early Years Learning Framework in Practice
A handbook for early childhood professionals that are now implementing the recently legislated national Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF) into early childhood services across Australia.
This book is intended to help directors, co-ordinators and educators to implement the EYLF with confidence, and is the first to provide a practical resource to assist early childhood professionals in this task.
The book has been developed by the early childhood team at the University of Melbourne, under the direction of Professor Bridie Raban.
Features:
* A resumé of government imperatives for the early childhood profession
* A comprehensive overview of the Principles, Practices and Pedagogy underpinning the EYLF
* Support for professionals in confidently putting the EYLF into practice
* Five chapters that provide practical advice and strategies for supporting each of the Learning Outcomes: Identity, Community, Wellbeing, Learning and Communication
* Advice on implementing the outcomes with different age groups
* Ideas about attachment relationships with young children; indoor and outdoor environments; observation, evaluation and planning; and play
* Questions to encourage reflective practice
* Comprehensive list of resources plus internet links for worksheets
Lubawy, Joy. 2010, Planning for Provisions, Provocations and Possibilities: Working within the Early Years Learning Framework
In this new publication, Joy Lubawy answers 21 frequently asked questions and models a number of ways practitioners can plan for, provoke, and document learning stories with
young children. In response to Belonging, Being and Becoming, Joy has found links, clearly shown on many pages throughout the book, which indicate ways we can work within the framework.
Lubawy, Joy. 2010, More - Observation to Reflection: Working Within the Early Years Learning Framework
This book gives an answer to the question; how can we demonstrate and document the ways we are emergent, intentional, holistic and supporting play-based learning? Joy has been thinking about these ideas and while still promoting documenting using learning stories these thoughts are reflected in an almost complete re-write of the very popular From Observation to Reflection. This book clears up some misconceptions as it takes the reader from our image of the child, to using MS Word, answering other frequently asked questions, and makes some comparisons that will delight.
Lubawy, Joy. 2010, Pancakes and Red Buckets: Emergent and Intentional - Working within the Early Years Learning Framework
This book explores how we can be intentional and explicit without becoming instructive. This book takes the reader towards a deeper understanding on how to make EYLF more visible. Pancakes and Red Buckets completes the circle, Planning for Provisions, Provocations and Possibilities and More – Observation to Reflection, all working within EYLF.
Joy writes about - what do we mean by intentional teaching? How important are interactions with children? What is the difference between a photo journal/day book and a learning story journal? Who are we in the life of a child? How can we make our intentional teaching and the children’s learning more visible? How do we create an Emergent Curriculum? Where does Intentional Teaching fit with an Emergent Curriculum? Plus much more.
