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This series of Connecting with practice and Talking about practice videos have been developed by Early Childhood Australia. The vignettes and supporting resources can be used to promote discussion and critical reflection among children’s education and care teachers and educators.
Find more videos on our YouTube channel.
Connecting with practice: Young toddlers’ learning
This video focuses on toddlers engaging with a learning environment in a variety of ways. The role of the physical environment in supporting learning is highlighted, as well as educators’ contributions to learning through communicating with language.
Related resource
Commonwealth of Australia – Connecting with practice: General guidelines
Commonwealth of Australia – Connecting with practice: Supporting resource – Young toddlers’ learning
Connecting with practice: Discovering – making connections
This video features three and four-year-old children in a group setting using a learning area set up to explore the topic of animals in their community. They use a light box, documentation and other materials.
Related resource
Commonwealth of Australia – Connecting with practice: General guidelines
Commonwealth of Australia – Connecting with practice: Supporting resource – Discovering – making connections
Connecting with practice: Making salad
This video shows an educator and children cutting herbs from their garden and using them to make a salad. It demonstrates various ways that educators use verbal communication for a variety of learning opportunities and experiences with children.
Related resource
Commonwealth of Australia – Connecting with practice: General guidelines
Commonwealth of Australia – Connecting with practice: Supporting resource – Making salad
Connecting with practice: Discovering – making music
This video features children using pots and pans as they engage with a creative outdoor music and sound station. This experience connects the children with making music, imagination and cooperation.
Related resource
Commonwealth of Australia – Connecting with practice: General guidelines
Commonwealth of Australia – Connecting with practice: Supporting resource – Making music
Connecting with practice: Marking with coloured pencils
This video focuses on a toddler drawing and her interactions with an educator. It demonstrates the learning opportunities for toddlers, the impact of the environment, and educators' roles and conversation in play.
Related resource
Commonwealth of Australia – Connecting with practice: General guidelines
Commonwealth of Australia – Connecting with practice: Supporting resource – Marking with coloured pencils
Connecting with practice: A very young child putting a bib on a doll
This video features a brief example of a one-year-old child attempting to put a bib on a doll. It shows learning through play and the child’s concentration and attention span.
Related resource
Commonwealth of Australia – Connecting with practice: General guidelines
Commonwealth of Australia – Connecting with practice: Supporting resource – A very young child putting a bib on a doll
Connecting with practice: Discovering – story time transition to naptime
This video focuses on a small group of four-year-old children in a family day care service during story time and their preparations for rest time. It follows an educator sharing a book and then involving children in routines.
Related resource
Commonwealth of Australia – Connecting with practice: General guidelines
Commonwealth of Australia – Connecting with practice: Supporting resource – Discovering – story time transition to nap time
Connecting with practice: Enjoying the vegetable garden
This video features a family day care educator and three children in the educator’s vegetable garden. It shows the value of small groups and promoting cooperation to support learning opportunities.
Related resource
Commonwealth of Australia – Connecting with practice: General guidelines
Commonwealth of Australia – Connecting with practice: Supporting resource – Enjoying the vegetable garden
Connecting with practice: Discussing a drawing of a watermelon
This video features a one-to-one conversation between an educator and a child about his drawing of a watermelon in the community garden where they are working. It promotes creativity and extending children's thinking.
Related resource
Commonwealth of Australia – Connecting with practice: General guidelines
Commonwealth of Australia – Connecting with practice: Supporting resource – Discussing a drawing of a watermelon
Connecting with practice: Discussing butterflies’ markings
This video demonstrates the use of an image on an iPad by an educator and several four-year-old children to discuss protective markings on a butterfly’s wings. It features the tone, content and nature of educators’ interactions and verbal communication, and the impact on children’s learning.
Related resource
Commonwealth of Australia – Connecting with practice: General guidelines
Commonwealth of Australia – Connecting with practice: Supporting resource – Discussing butterflies’ markings
Connecting with practice: Opportunities for learning in natural spaces
This video shows a two-year-old child and a number of three and four-year-old children in a group setting in an outdoor space. Two experiences captured are: an educator alongside a very young child holding a chicken; and several children playing in a sand area with water, pipes and sand.
Related resource
Commonwealth of Australia – Connecting with practice: General guidelines
Commonwealth of Australia – Connecting with practice: Supporting resource – Opportunities for learning in natural spaces
Connecting with practice: Respecting and responding to children
This video focuses on an educator and three children playing and interacting outside. It features the educator responding to children's interests, offering choices and finding solutions, and attending to several children at once.
Related resource
Commonwealth of Australia – Connecting with practice: General guidelines
Commonwealth of Australia – Connecting with practice: Supporting resource – Respecting and responding to children
Connecting with practice: Discovering routines around lunch
This video shows the lead-up to lunch for two four-year-old children and two babies in a family day care service. It focuses on health and hygiene, including wiping down eating surfaces and handwashing.
Related resource
Commonwealth of Australia – Connecting with practice: General guidelines
Commonwealth of Australia – Connecting with practice: Supporting resource – Discovering routines around lunch
Discovering: Sustained, shared conversation with children
This video shows an educator and a group of children examining natural material in an outdoor area. It focuses on the educator’s role in supporting sustained, shared conversations with the children.
Related resource
ACECQA – Information sheet – QA1 Developing a culture of learning through reflective practice
Watching: Our new playground develops
This video focuses on an educator’s interaction with a small group of children as they observe work being conducted on their outdoor playground. It features responsive and respectful educator to child interactions and relationships.
Related resource
ACECQA – Information sheet – QA1 Developing a culture of learning through reflective practice
ACECQA – Information sheet – QA5 Relationships with children
Inspired to draw: A visit to the art gallery
This video focuses on small groups of children who are visiting an art gallery. The children can be seen drawing and engaging with adults in the gallery space. It demonstrates the way the environment may influence the learning taking place.
Related resource
ACECQA – Information sheet – QA1 Developing a culture of learning through reflective practice
ACECQA – Information sheet – QA5 Relationships with children
Exploring the world through the eye of a camera
This video shows a child and an educator exploring a camera. The role of the educator in supporting the child’s engagement through play is highlighted, as well as how these interactions are used to inform reflective practice.
Related resource
ACECQA – Information sheet – QA1 Developing a culture of learning through reflective practice
ACECQA – Information sheet – QA5 Relationships with children
Creating with clay and natural materials
This video features an educator, parent and four children interacting in a small group experience with clay and natural materials in an outdoor environment. It shows resources and materials being used to support exploration and play-based learning.
Related resource
ACECQA – Information sheet – QA1 Developing a culture of learning through reflective practice
ACECQA – Information sheet – QA5 Relationships with children
Project re-using milk containers
This video features a group of children and an educator re-purposing milk containers, demonstrating the opportunities for combining sustainability and creative play. Viewers are encouraged to critically reflect on the interactions and learning taking place.
Related resource
ACECQA – Information sheet – QA1 Developing a culture of learning through reflective practice
ACECQA – Information sheet – QA5 Relationships with children
Making literacy connection: Sample materials to print
This video demonstrates the use of materials and print media by two children to create literacy connections. The role of play and child interactions is highlighted. Viewers may reflect on how children’s learning is supported through experiences that encourage active and collaborative participation.
Related resource
ACECQA – Information sheet – QA1 Developing a culture of learning through reflective practice
ACECQA – Information sheet – QA5 Relationships with children
Learning about food
This video shows an educator and a small group of children cutting and sorting pictures of food into handmade lunch boxes. It shows the interactions taking place and how they contribute to the children’s learning.
Related resource
ACECQA – Information sheet – QA1 Developing a culture of learning through reflective practice
ACECQA – Information sheet – QA5 Relationships with children