Differences in Australian State and Territory Approaches to Documentation, Planning, Assessment and Pedagogy in Child Care

CHILD CARE

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................1
Explore and discuss differences within Australian State and Territory approaches to
documentation, planning, assessment and pedagogy in the Australian Context and planning
cycle and its importance within curriculum design.....................................................................1
Planning cycle and its importance in curriculum design.............................................................5
Planning cycle and its importance in curriculum planning.............................................................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Eary years childhood leaning planning, documentation and assessment is extremely important
because it helps in gathering important information about children, their parents, families so that
proper and appropriate childhood development and growth programs, approaches and methods
can be developed (White & Fleer, 2019). There are many different kinds of approaches and
methods that are used by different Australian states and territories. Different approaches are
based upon different considerations such as curriculum, needs, interest, skills and capabilities of
children etc. These approaches regarding planning and documentation of children learning is
important because initially learning of children were not focused much as a result their
development of learning was impacted drastically. Due to this, different Australian states and
territories have developed their own methods, approaches and practises of learning. Each
approach has its own planning cycle and id equally important for designing a proper and
appropriate curriculum for children. Due to this, children’s learning curriculum becomes
important to be designed and documented in a proper manner. Early years learning framework is
one of the most common nationally approved framework that has brought a great shift in state
and territory approaches and documentation of curriculum development. Not only this, this
framework has also enhanced overall child care, and practises at national level. This debate essay
will discuss differences within Australian State and Territory approaches to documentation,
planning, assessment and pedagogy of children’s learning.
MAIN BODY
Explore and discuss differences within Australian State and Territory approaches to
documentation, planning, assessment and pedagogy in the Australian Context and planning
cycle and its importance within curriculum design
Education and care programs plays a vital and important role in early childhood settings.
In this debate essay approach if different Australian states and territories used for documentation,
planning, assessment and pedagogy of childhood hearing has been discussed. This discussion
will clearly help in understanding that in most of the states and territories nationally approved
learning framework for early aged children learning and development are followed. But only in
state of Victoria ‘Victorian Early Years Learning and Development Framework’ is followed that
has been explained below.
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Documentation: The Australian Government, in collaboration with the state and territory
governments, sought advice from early childhood experts on designing and developing the NQF
and the NQS for all ECEC settings. Documentation is necessary so that the learning experiences
of children in early child hood can be improved. The documentation related to observation and
planning is been done at all level. Documentation of children learning is also been done at all
levels (Tanak, 2018).
Planning: In Queensland Early Years Curriculum Guidelines (EYCG) has provided and given
different suggestion for planning. In this they have defined different phases of learning. In this
phase learning can be promoted and also planning related to different methods of teaching has
been analysed and evaluated (Chai and et.al., 2019).
Assessment: The Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA) has laid
emphasis on learning and curriculum part of students. They have analysed and reviewed 17
international and national journals. In this the opportunities to link methods of teaching and
learning is being assessed. The Australian government has assessed and evaluated all policies
and procedure which has been used by different territories.
Pedagogy: The government of south Australia has made different curriculum on pedagogy. In
this they have thought about providing every child who is studying ins school the right to quality
of education. They have also tried to improvise their learning experiences and to provide them
with better learning opportunities. They also make sure that children make use of flexible use of
resources which includes both natural and man made resources (Meschede and et.al., 2017).
VIC or Victoria state
VEYLDF or Victorian Early years learning development framework is an approach
which is used for assessment of children learning and development (Department of Education
and Training, (2016). This framework focuses upon adopting a comprehensive approach to
learning and development of children. This framework is specifically developed for Victoria
state. Other states and territories mostly have adopted nationally approved frameworks such as
Early years learning framework and Framework for school age care. This framework is used in
Victoria state and is nationally recognized (Adam, Barratt-Pugh & Haig, 2019). This approach
recognizes health as one of the most important and crucial enablers of learning and development
of children. According to this framework it is important to focus upon wellbeing of children
since their birth, only then one can achieve high quality outcome of learning, development and
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