Teaching Resources and Learning Experiences for Babies and Toddlers

EDU3ELM Early Years Literacy & Mathematics
Assessment Task 2: Teaching Resources and learning experiences for babies and toddlers
Student name:
Explain the theoretical
perspective that has
influenced the design of
your series of learning
experiences
(Nominate your focus age
group 0-2 yrs or 2-3 yrs)
The age group which has been chosen is 2-3 years age of children.
This age group children are very sensitive because it is the growing
age. So it is very important that teacher should provide knowledge to
children so that their focus should be on children's foundation. As
this is the foundation age (Caldwell, Renner and Atkinson, 2018).
The syllabus or school curriculum has influenced design of learning
experiences. As every teacher have its own way of teaching but
school syllabus impacts its way of teaching. As teachers have to
adjust its way of teaching as per school curriculum. every year or in
every two years school revised their syllabus which means that after
properly understanding that what syllabus is demanding teachers
have to mould its teaching accordingly. School rules and regulations
also affects learning experience. Schools of toddlers have strict rules
and regulations. So teacher cannot be harsh with students.
If you are teaching babies or toddlers then it is very important to
have patience because children of age group 2-3 years generally do
not understand thing easily. in order to attract toddlers towards
education teachers can use various different resources like toys
which includes clay, block etc. especially with this generation
teachers are using toys to teach small students as it make learning
interesting and easy. children are more attracted towards fun learning
which means learning with the help of toys and games. Every
individual has different attitudes. Teacher cannot deal with every
student in same way. They have to change their behaviour with every
student. As there are some children who do not understand
everything easily so for that teacher have to slow its learning
process. Some children are sharp and teachers does not have to focus
much on those children.
Intentional teaching
proposals
(one for literacy learning
and one for mathematical
learning)
Mathematical learning-
To give proper understanding to children regarding shapes, sizes,
identifying, matching, picking odd one out, colouring etc. these all
are basic knowledge which babies of age group 2-3 must have (Ellis,
2018). teacher should make lessons in which they teach them
different shapes and helps them to identify colours.
Literacy learning-
Children should build listening capabilities and must have develop
speech. toddlers should be able to recognise sounds. teachers can
play videos or anything through which children can listen and
recognise what is actually happening. teachers often uses stories and
poems to enhance understanding of babies. as stories are one of the
most interesting learning method.

Plan
Outline your series of
experiences:
(A minimum of 4 for each
your literacy learning
intentional teaching
proposal and your
mathematical teaching
proposal)
Mathematical teaching proposal-
1. teacher can keep various shapes which includes circles,
square etc and everything should be two and children should
have asked to pick similar shape. so that through this way
children will learn matching concept. this will also enhance
identification skills of students. in order to match shapes first
they have to identify them.
Figure 1 different shapes
Source: Learning through shapes., 2021
2. in order to teach colours teacher can show different fruits and
vegetable to babies and teach them about different colours. to
make babies to identify colours easily. when an object of that
particular colour it shown to them then it becomes easy for
toddlers to remember the name of that colour.
3. to teach numbers teacher can use charts where they draw
colourful number so that toddlers can identify number.
teacher can also use tracing worksheet and help children to
trace numbers. this way children will learn to read and write
numbers.
4. in order to teach counting. teachers can organise activity in
which they should keep various objects and ask children to
counts their numbers. it is the fun activity and it will also
improve learning of children. this way children will recall
counting which is taught by their teachers.
Literacy teaching proposal-
1. for teaching rhymes to children teachers are using projector
and internet. they used to play rhymes on screen so that
children can visualise it. this improve its learning experience.
when children will learn through visualizing then learning
takes place fast and effective (Mahan and et.al., 2021).
2. teacher can also take their students outside in a park or
garden. this will make children happy when they see that they
are in park. as in park children can play with their friends.
teacher can also tell different stories and can make children