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Assessment
Create and analyse learning environments of curriculum key learning areas for children's development and learning explain the role of the early childhood educator
Task overview
The purpose of this assignment is to develop deeper knowledge and understanding of how everyday objects, routines, and resources in the early childhood setting can be used to promote children's learning and development across the learning areas with links to the EYLF v2.0 Principles and Practices and Learning Outcomes and National Quality Standard Quality Areas.
It is also important that early childhood educators have a deep understanding of the role of children's play in these learning environments to best promote children's conceptual knowledge in learning areas appropriate to birth to five years. No AI shortcuts — Get genuine assignment help from experienced, real tutors.
Assessment 2 requires you to analyse one short video and explain how the curriculum support children's learning and development.
Rationale
This unit develops conceptual knowledge of the holistic approach to curriculum in the early childhood setting. There is a focus on an integrated and holistic approach of learning domains for children aged from birth to five years.
Students develop children's conceptual knowledge of these domains, with links made to the Early Years Learning Framework V2.0 [EYLF V2.0] (AGDE, 2022), National Quality Standard [NQS] (ACECQA, 2018) theory and literature.
Instructions
Task Instructions
As early childhood teachers we observe children's play and experience and we are intentional in how we extend their learning. This means we consider how resources, environments, activities and experiences, and also conversations and interactions can help to support children's learning.
In this task you are required to watch a video of two children engaged in play-based learning.
You will identify and describe the scenario in the video in terms of the children's abilities and skills, and how the environment supports their learning (Part 1 and 2). You will then draw on your findings from Part 1 to describe a plan that will support children's ongoing learning and development (Part 3). Please attach a coversheet to your assignment and use the three headings of Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 for your assignment.
Video: Mint Tea and a Chat
In this video two children (approximately 3 years of age) are involved in a play-based learning experience which involves pretend play with ‘mint tea'.
Part 1. What did you see? - children's learning and development
Using resources such as the ACECQA developmental milestones or the AERO learning trajectory identify and discuss the learning and development that you saw in the video.
You must specifically discuss this in relation to the following domains of learning/ areas of learning:
Language and literacy
Physical development
Social and emotional development
You must include citations to academic literature and other professional sources in this section.
Part 2. What did you see? - The curriculum
You are also required to identify elements of the curriculum that you observed in the videos that supported children's learning and development - remembering that curriculum includes:
"in the early childhood setting curriculum includes all the interactions, experiences, activities, routines and events, planned and unplanned, that occur in an environment designed to foster children's learning, development and wellbeing" (AGDE, 2022)
You must include citations to academic literature and other professional sources in this section.
Part 3. What next? - Play-based learning and intentionality
In this section you are required to think about the skills and abilities that you noted for the children in Part 1 and viewing the video and to think about what comes next.
Provide a definition of the EYLF v2.0 Practice of Play-based learning and intentionality (AGDE, 2022, pp. 21-22) and draw on this definition to clearly explain how you would extend and support children's learning and development in the 3 developmental areas of:
Language and literacy
Physical development
Social and emotional development
These can be discussed as separate areas of you can discuss them in an integrated way.
In this analysis you must show a clear understanding of how educators can act with intentionality in play-based learning (see page 22 of the EYLF v2.0).
You must also show a clear connection with at least one EYLF v2.0 Practice, one EYLF v2.0 Principle, and EYLF v2.0 Outcome.
You are required to include citations to academic literature and other professional sources. These should be detailed connections that show your understanding of the Principles, Practices and Outcomes. You must also support your discussion by including citation to academic literature or other professional sources.