Australian Early Childhood Education & Care Pocket Guide

A compact resource for Educators, students and teachers.

This pocket guide has been created and designed by Handy Lingual. Its primary purpose is to serve as a comprehensive reference tool for Early Childhood Educators, teachers, and students of the CHC30121 Early Education and Care course.

The aim is to translate and compile intricate information, frameworks, and documents into a user-friendly format.

Initially designed to facilitate easy reference to the EYLF Learning Outcomes during student observations in course placements, this Pocket Guide evolved. Following its initial not-for-profit small-batch distribution in 2023, the document underwent further revisions and developments to broaden its utility to a wider audience.

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84 pages, A5, spiral bound, 350gsm matt laminate cover, 140gsm uncoated internal pages.

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Contents

• National Quality Framework
• Overview: Framework structure
• Overview: Learning Frameworks
• Overview: 7x National Quality Standards
• Details of each Quality Area
  
  
• Early Years Learning Framework
• EYLF document overview
• Overview: 5x Learning Outcomes
• Details of each Learning Outcome
• The Planning Cycle
  
  
• Developmental Milestones
• Birth to 5 years
• Physical, Social, Emotional, Cognitive, Language
• When to seek advice

• Developmental Reference Guides
• Typical hand grasp development
• Daily sleep and activity recommendations

• Observations
• Overview: Past tense observations
• Overview: Present tense observations
• Writing tips
• Detailed templates

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All content within this document has been directly copied, or summarised, from current versions of Australian approved documents, including National Quality Framework, Belonging, Being and Becoming: The Early Years Learning Framework for Australia (V2.0) and Early Years Learning Framework Practice Based Resources - Developmental Milestones. All attributions are listed within the document.