The Connecting with practice – EYLF and NQS series of twelve short service practice and training videos
These professional learning vignettes feature short sequences of practice viewed from a range of EYLF and NQS perspectives. They provide educators who work alone or in small settings with a learning experience that mimics a professional group conversation. They may also be used as a professional learning tool in staff meetings or training institutions.
Discovering—Making Connections
This vignette shows three- and four-year-olds in a group setting using a rich learning area set up to explore the topic of animals. They use a light box, documentation... watch videos
Discovering—Storytime transition to naptime
This vignette shows four children who are four years old in family day care having story time and leading to getting ready for rest time. It depicts... watch videos
Discovering—Routines around lunch
This vignette takes place in the lead-up to lunch for two four-year-olds and two babies in a family day care home and focuses on health and hygiene, including wiping... watch videos
Opportunities for learning in natural spaces
This vignette shows a two-year-old and some three- and four-year-olds in an outdoor space in a group setting. Two experiences captured in the vignette are... watch videos
Relaxed conversation during fruit time
In this vignette a family day care educator talks with three children as they have breakfast/morning tea. She uses a variety of teaching strategies to support... watch videos
Discovering—Sustained, shared conversation with children
This vignette shows four-year-olds in a group setting examining and having a rich conversation with an educator about birdseed. They discuss different types of seeds and... watch videos
Discovering—What do you see?
This vignette shows an educator, a four-year-old and a baby interacting with a mirror in a family day care setting. It also features the children dressing up... watch videos
Engaging with babies and toddlers
This vignette shows babies and toddlers in a group setting interacting with educators and engaging in a range of play and learning experiences. Educators are demonstrating... watch videos
Learning about negotiation in play
This vignette shows four children who are three and four years old in a family day care setting working out who gets to participate in a... watch videos
The busy baby room
This vignette shows a group setting for babies. It features babies playing with balloons as well as an educator reading a book to a small group of... watch videos
Discovering—Lunchtime
This vignette shows lunchtime with four three- and four-year-old children in a family day care setting. One child resists sitting down at the table for lunch. The educator works with... watch videos
Discovering—Making music
This vignette shows several children engaged with a very creative outdoor music using pots and pans for sound station. This simple innovation connects the children with making music, imagination... watch videos
Children playing with cars and trucks
This vignette takes place in the outdoor environment in a child care centre. The children are playing in a planned, outdoor play space with dirt,... watch videos
Finger painting
This vignette shows two 4 year olds doing finger painting on a table using different colours of paints. The vignette demonstrates sustained interaction between two children and a family... watch videos
Story reading with three children
This vignette shows an educator reading a book with 3 to 4 year olds. Creating small, open interactions with each child that support the acquisition of... watch videos
Sandpit play
This vignette shows an educator engaging with and supervising groups of children of mixed ages, three to five year olds, playing in the sandpit with implements. An outdoor activity... watch videos
Doing your own thing—Child's agency
This vignette shows a child being given a sense of agency by having the freedom to choose to dance on her own indoors while an educator... watch videos
Working in a community garden
This vignette shows the value of small group experiences of four-year-olds working with their educator in a community garden near their centre. It also features the... watch videos
Discussing a drawing of a watermelon
This vignette is of a one-to-one conversation between an educator and a child about his drawing of a watermelon in the community garden where they... watch videos
Word game
This vignette is of a structured game led by an educator with a group of three-year-olds where they are identifying the number of syllables in words. It promotes literacy,... watch videos
Rolling in a tyre
This vignette shows four children with an educator using a tyre to do somersaults. It promotes children's experiences through collaborative experiences, physical skills and coordination and also... watch videos
Folding washing
This vignette shows an educator and a child folding washing while two other children play nearby. It also features ordinary everyday tasks to be used for children’s learning and... watch videos
Enjoying the vegetable garden
This vignette shows an educator and three children outside focusing on a small vegetable garden in the educator's backyard. It also shows the value of small groups... watch videos
Respecting and responding to children
This vignette shows an educator and three children playing and interacting outside. It also features responding to children's interests, giving choices and finding reasonable solutions and... watch videos
Plastic cups
This vignette shows an educator and one child examining some plastic containers, talking about their properties and identifying ones that can be recycled. It also features authentic learning opportunities... watch videos
Car Factory
This vignette shows two children interacting with each other and with an educator to create a car from a cardboard box. It also features children's interactions and collaborations and... watch videos
