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This issue of ECA WebWatch features a collection of great links assisting you to understand and support young children’s growth.
Plus the latest early childhood news and publications.
Supporting emotional development
Feeling lonely and shy (Supporting Best Practice)
Three great links from Early Childhood Australia's Supporting Best Practice web directory describing practical strategies for engaging children who feel shy or withdrawn.
Understanding children's feelings: Emotional literacy in early childhood (PDF)
How do children express their feelings? This helpful guide is an extract from Understanding children's feelings: Emotional literacy in early childhood, one of the many great titles in Early Childhood Australia's Research in Practice Series.
Promising practices – exploring feelings
A collection of everyday, practical ways to assist children develop social competence and make connections between feelings and actions.
Encouraging creativity
20 ways to encourage children's resourcefulness and creativity
This handy article provides a fantastic collection of ideas to develop children's problem-solving skills and inspire resourcefulness.
For example:
- Stimulate imaginative, independent thought by posing questions. In projects, avoid telling children exactly what to do.
- Resist perfectionism. Don't take over a child's project because you can do it better. Likewise, resist putting finishing touches on a child's project to make it perfect.
- Change the end of well-known stories. 'What's another way "The Three Little Pigs" could end?'
Promising practises – blocks/building
Two examples illustrating how block play assists young children to learn concepts of maths, height and how to describe the relationships between objects.
Open-ended questions: Stretching children's academic and social learning
This stimulating article demonstrates how open-ended questions can unlock creativity, promoting social learning through children's natural curiosity.
Early childhood news
Visit Early Childhood Australia's news page to read about the latest developments in the early childhood field.
Integrated Child Care Quality Assurance: Draft Standards for Discussion
Early Childhood Australia Response (10 April 2007)
Early Childhood Australia has made a formal submission to FaCSIA regarding the draft standards for the proposed integrated Child Care Quality Assurance system.
The ECA submission does not focus on the detail of the draft standards, as ECA members are participating actively—at state/territory ECA Branches or in conjunction with other groups around Australia—in the development of responses which will focus on the detail of the draft standards.
Read the ECA submission to the Integrated Child Care Quality Assurance: Draft Standards for Discussion.
What is social bookmarking?
Keep track of articles and share with others online
Social bookmarking is a new way to share the best online resources and websites with friends and colleagues. Simply click one of the six icons you'll find at the bottom of Early Childhood Australia webpages or follow our step-by-step guide.
Parenting resource
The Raising Children Network contains helpful practical resources for parents, educators and carers.
Great early childhood resources
Everyday learning about children's behaviour provides clear, easy-to-read approaches to teaching about behaviour in a positive way – for everyone who cares for children.
Building structures with young children helps educators and carers utilise children's natural curiosity about structures to teach scientific concepts and develop inquiry skills.
Find more quality-assured resources in the Early Childhood Australia online catalogue.
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