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Outcome 4: Children are Confident and Involved Learners
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By Denise , Josephine, Lisa and Yang
The Early Years Learning Framework
The Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF) is a document that guides early childhood educators to enhance children’s opportunity to maximise their fundamental learning foundation (DEEWR, 2009). The framework consists of five learning outcomes, which covers the child’s identity, community, wellbeing, learning and communication skills.
Outcome 4:
Children are Confident and Involved Learners
Outcome 4:
Children are Confident and Involved Learners
Outcome 4 focuses on children’s development in becoming a confident and involved learner. Children are more likely to be confident and involved learners through the support of their teachers, families and community.
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1. Children develop dispositions for learning such as curiosity, cooperation, confidence, creativity, commitment, enthusiasm, persistence, imagination and reflexivity
1. Children develop dispositions for learning such as curiosity, cooperation, confidence, creativity, commitment, enthusiasm, persistence, imagination and reflexivity
Disposition for learning:
characteristics that foster children’s learning
HOW?
- Children are actively engaged and enthusiastic
- Relevant and meaningful learning experiences
- An environment for children to wonder and explore
Ways to Help Children Develop into Confident and Involve Learners:
- Create an open-ended learning environment
- Share information about children’s interests
- Show genuine interest in children’s investigations
- Provide assistance when children are struggling
2. Children develop a range of skills and processes such as problem solving, inquiry, experimentation, hypothesising, researching and investigating
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2. Children develop a range of skills and processes such as problem solving, inquiry, experimentation, hypothesising, researching and investigating
- Inquire and explore more about the world
- Providing opportunities that encourage children to hypothesise, research and investigate
Professor Claire McLachlan:
- wide variety of skills are often more likely to identify the cause and effect of the situation.
Challenges:
- strengthen their ability to problem solve and overcome obstacles in life
- develop the child’s resilience
Ways to Help Children Develop into Confident and Involve Learners:
- Allow children to independently face some obstacles
- Encourage children to ask questions
- Provide opportunity to explore and investigate their interest
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3. Children transfer and adapt what they have learned from one context to another
3. Children transfer and adapt what they have learned from one context to another
Children have the ability to link previous understanding, concepts and processes to their current experience.
- hands-on experiences
- transfer strategies that they found effective from one context to a new context
Luke Touhill (early childhood trainer) suggests:
- practice and time to gain new knowledge and skills
- ongoing experiences develops confidence
Ways to Help Children Develop into Confident and Involve Learners:
- Be actively involved in your child’s learning!
- Ask children what they learnt that day
- Remembering skills they have developed allows them to reflect
- Encourage children to use previous understanding, concepts or processes learnt in a different context
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4. Children resource their own learning through connecting with people, place, technologies and natural and processed materials
4. Children resource their own learning through connecting with people, place, technologies and natural and processed materials
Children use different resources and materials to become confident and involve learners.
- Efficient and useful resources
- supported by educators, parents and the community
Marilyn Fleers (The Foundation Chair of Early Childhood Education) highlights:
- Technology
- Engaging and practical
- Self-confidence
- the importance of using different resources to enhance children’s learning, in particular
Ways to Help Children Develop into Confident and Involved Learners:
- Organise play dates and outings with other children at the local park
- Encourage children to experiment with different technologies
- Build a strong sense of community around the child
Belonging, Being and Becoming
Reference List
Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. (2009). Belonging, being and becoming: an early years learning framework for Australia. Canberra: Commonwealth of Australia.
Early Years Learning Framework MyChild.gov.au. (2018). Retrieved from https://mychild.gov.au/agenda/early-years-framework
Fleer, M. (2016). Technologies for children (1st ed.). Cambridge: Melbourne Cambridge University Press.
McLachlan, C., Fleer, M., & Edwards, S. (2018). Early childhood curriculum : planning, assessment, and implementation (3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press.
Touhill, L. (2018). Everyday outcomes: Working with the early years learning framework learning outcomes. Educating Young Children: Learning And Teaching In The Early Childhood Years, 18(3), 27-29.