Spend a minute… with the ECA Learning Hub
Early Childhood Australia’s Spend a Minute (SAM) newsletters provide practical tips and advice on key areas of pedagogy. Distributed three times a month on a Monday, the newsletters are short, bite-size explorations of themes and ideas, with links to professional learning to expand your learning further.
View back-issues of Spend a Minute below.
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Spend a Minute on cultural inclusion (January 2020)
Spend a Minute on sustainability (February 2020)
Spend a Minute on mentoring (March 2020)
Spend a Minute on induction (March 2020)
Spend a Minute on professional identity (April 2020)
Spend a Minute on children’s engagement with digital technology (May 2020)
Spend a Minute on educational leadership (May 2020)
Spend a Minute on self regulation and challenging behaviours (June 2020)
Spend a Minute on Nature Pedagogy (June 2020)
Spend a Minute on children’s rights (July 2020)
Spend a Minute on STEM (August 2020)
Spend a minute on the rights of the child to play (August 2020)
Spend a Minute on transition to school (September 2020)
Spend a Minute on transition to school during COVID-19 (October 2020)
- Spend a minute on music (January 2019)
- Spend a minute on sleep and transitions (January 2019)
- Spend a minute on festivals and festivities(January 2019)
- Spend a minute on critical reflection (February 2019)
- Spend a minute on the ECA Code of Ethics (February 2019)
- Spend a minute on technology and practice (February 2019)
- Spend a minute on physical literacy (March 2019)
- Spend a minute on mental and spiritual wellbeing (March 2019)
- Spend a minute on the value of play (March 2019)
- Spend a minute on reconciliation (April 2019)
- Spend a minute on developing a learning community (April 2019)
- Spend a minute on Education for Sustainability with guest author Dr Sue Elliott (April 2019)
- Spend a minute on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages (May 2019)
- Spend a minute on the Reggio Emilia educational project (May 2019)
- Spend a minute on Education for Sustainability in practice (May 2019)
- Spend a minute on learning environments (June 2019)
- Spend a minute on inclusion (June 2019)
- Spend a Minute on cooking and nutrition (July 2019)
- Spend a minute on making meaning through maths (August 2019)
- Spend a minute on cognitive development in the early years (September 2019)
- Spend a Minute on STEM (September 2019)
- Spend a Minute on Inquiry-based learning (October 2019)
- Spend a Minute on leadership (November 2019)
- Spend a Minute on 2019 (December 2019)
