Educators - Belonging, Being and Becoming

Educator's Guide to the "Early Years Learning Framework for Australia"

The Educators' Guide to the Early Years Framework for Australia is intended "to support curriculum decision making to extend and enrich children's learning from birth to five years and through the transition to school".
The Guide is designed to be used in interactive ways to promote in-depth conversations and thinking

over a sustained period about the concepts which build the Framework. It is not intended to be read in

one sitting. Rather, individuals and teams of educators may find it helpful to ‘dip’ into the Guide at different

points, to focus on one section at a time, and to begin with the section of most interest to them.


Most readers will find it helpful to read the Framework before turning to the Guide.


The following concepts of the Framework are explored in the Guide:

• belonging, being and becoming and their links to learning


• principles, practices and pedagogy, including play and partnerships with families, to support learning


• reflective practice


• curriculum decision making to foster children’s learning in areas identified by five broad


Learning Outcomes


• facilitating children’s transitions in the early years


• developing cultural competence


• Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural competence


• using theoretical perspectives.


Both the Framework and the Guide are designed to engage educators in critical thinking, reflection and inquiry. As such they are not prescriptive or 'recipe' books, but rather intended to provoke, inspire and challenge. They recognise that there is not one 'right way to provide for children's learning.

For more information and to access your copy of the the Educators - Belonging, Being and Becoming Guide, click this link