EDU10001: EYLF Teaching Philosophy in Curriculum Planning Report

This report outlines a teaching philosophy based on the Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF), emphasizing the importance of enriching children's learning experiences and facilitating their transition to school. It highlights the framework's principles, including secure, respectful relationships, partnerships, high expectations, equity, respect for diversity, and reflective practice. The author discusses the impact of the EYLF on their teaching profession, focusing on establishing caring relationships with children and constructing relevant learning experiences. Various theories, such as socio-cultural and critical theories, are integrated to understand children's learning and development. The desired outcomes include developing a strong sense of identity, effective communication skills, and confident learning. The report also touches on the implementation of the framework in early childhood settings and the importance of curriculum decision-making to reflect the EYLF's concepts of belonging, being, and becoming. Desklib offers a wealth of similar assignments and study tools for students.

Running head: TEACHING PHILOSOPHY BASED ON EYLF
TEACHING PHILOSOPHY BASED ON EYLF
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The focus of the EYLF is to enrich the value of the children’s learnings and extend their
learning process through the transition to school. This framework provides opportunities for
young children to maximise the learning potential and helps to establish the fundamental basis
for determining future success in the learning process. The EYLF framework has a specific role
in the play-based learning and recognising the importance of communication, language
development, social and emotional development based on the priority of young children’s
learning process. The principle of this early years learning framework is to develop the secure,
reciprocal and respectful relations, growing partnership, having high expectations and equity,
respecting for the diversity and the reflective practice and ongoing learning. I follow this
technique in my teachings and use all the principles of this framework in my teaching process.
This framework creates a great impact on my teaching profession, the most important
thing in my profession is that I was able to establish the respectful and the caring relationship
with the children. This framework works in groups for constructing the learning experiences and
the curriculum that is relevant to the children education materials (Jones & Harcourt, 2013). This
also improved my judgments and improve my knowledge skills and knowledge regarding the
children, their families and the communities, my style of teaching and my experiences. The
different theories regarding early childhood gives the proper approaches to the children's
learnings and developments. In my teaching process, I developed the theories that focus on
understanding and describing the process of alteration in the children learning and development
over time. The socio-cultural theories of this framework help to emphasise the central role,
which the cultural groups play in the learning process of children and the development over the
time and also develops the polite relationship in the social and the cultural context of learning
and development (Georgeson & Payler, 2013). The critical theories of EYLF invite the children

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educators like us to challenge the assumptions regarding the curriculum and considering how the
discussions can affect the children differently. The post-structural theories offer insights into the
issues related to power, equity and social justice in early childhood settings (Kearns, 2017).
I followed this framework for the following desired outcomes that are this teaching
process will help children to develop a strong sense of identity, they could be connected in the
teaching process, they will have a sense of well-being, and they will become the effective
communicators and would make them confident and the involved learners. The framework will
help the students to grow the child’s talent, mental health, personality and physical abilities to
their utmost potential. The framework helps to develop respect for human rights and the
fundamental freedoms and the values of the parent’s language and cultural identity (Lemon &
Garvis, 2014). This teaching method also prepares the child for leading the responsible life in the
free society with the spirit of peace, understandings, tolerance, friendship, national values,
religious values, equity of sexes, and providing the values of the indigenous person.
The Early childhood settings already implement various ideas within the framework like
offering the learning environment play based and evaluating the daily experiences and
documenting the children’s learning through the observations and extending the interest of the
children. The implantation of this framework suggests the educators like us think, reflect and use
the knowledge for the best judgments to design the curriculum of the children. This process is
considered as the curriculum decision making and imposes the educators to think about the
curriculum decisions. The most important concern of the educators is to implement the correct
curriculum that reflects the EYLF (Knaus, 2015).
The EYLF provides clear concepts based on the children’s lives that can be characterised
as belonging, Being and Becoming. This gives the knowledge that how the child is connected to

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the community, family, culture and the place from before birth. The child’s development and the
learning process takes place when they start to explore their interest, creating their own identity
and makes meaning of the world around them. While using the concept of the Early Years
Framework, the use of the programming and documentation methods within the EYLF do not
provide any base for the planning, contributing and evaluating the concepts of children’s learning
process (Joerdens, 2014).

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