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EDITORIAL Kim Walters 2 From the president 4 From the editorial team STORIES Katchia Avenell 5 How NOT to annihilate play: building respectful interactions with children Tash Treveton 7 Interaction vs Interference CONVERSATIONS Celebrations and diversity Fiona Champion 9 Kylie Romero 9 Hannah Powell 10 Sue Southey 10 Bryony Blanchard 11 ENVIRONMENTS The reality of doing outdoor education: questions to consider when Katchia Avenell 12 setting up your forest school Monique Belousoff 14 Inclusion: 9 Tool Framework to make it happen and Anh Tu PARTNERSHIPS Lee Gane 17 Working together to realise the potential of the Education and Care Workforce FEATURES Practical strategies for working with traumatised children from refugee Cherie Lamb 20 backgrounds in early childhood settings ‘Ya gotta wear Billabong or ya can’t be in our gang’: linking teaching for Dr Karen Hawkins 24 social justice and inclusion with the EYLF and NQF Jane Goodfellow 28 Play as a learning framework for young children with additional needs Dr Jeanette Fresne 32 Orchestrating young children’s moving and music making and Dr Rebecca Giles Ingrid C. King 36 Why children aren’t physically ready for school and how you can help We are not all friends, but that’s ok: reassessing slogans Desley Jones 39 for social guidance. WELL BEING Madeline Avci 42 Making sense of sensory processing Heather Joy Campbell 45 (Re)learning lessons from the playground for health MEDIA REVIEWS Kerri Groves 48 Bedtime with Ted & Playtime with Ted Year 4 Gympie Central 49 The Chalk Rainbow State School Julie Jones 50 The Leaky Story Archana Sinh 51 Patch and Ruby Lisa Gilmore and the children from 52 Through the Gate Alma Street Pre-Prep Vol 23, No 3, 2017 Educating Young Children – Learning and teaching in the early childhood years 1 EDITORIAL Kim Walters From the President In this my eleventh year as ECTA president, I am very proud of the support ECTA continues to provide to members and colleagues across the state and interstate. I am particularly proud of the strong commitment ECTA has shown for many years to supporting regional members. The rollout of our webinar series has delivered high quality professional development directly to ECTA member no matter where they live or work. This year we provided eight webinars Training (DET) Education Minister’s on a wide range of topics at no cost Early Years Forum; Queensland to ECTA members, all of which can College of Teachers (QCT) - Early be accessed in the Member’s Centre Childhood Reference Group; QCT online. The benefit to organisational Professional Standards Committee; membership of all staff accessing QCT Accreditation of Initial Teacher webinars at home or work has had education programs: Standards and a positive impact on membership Procedures Program Panel; Brisbane numbers with the addition of 59 Teacher Education Industry Advisory new organisational memberships Group (TEIAG) and the Joint Council this year. The no cost webinars and of Queensland Teacher Associations. the discounts on ECTA Conference We have advocated for members and regional group PD for all staff during discussions with QCT around have supported this growth. It is Early Childhood Teacher Registration especially pleasing to see the & contributed to QCT Evidence increase in membership from school Guide for Early Childhood Settings; based organisations and individuals. Mandatory Reporting Implementation of the National Quality Review Agenda ECTA membership currently stands at (State and National perspective) and 820: current membership levels are ECEC Regulation in Queensland: 318 organisational, 407 individuals, Future Directions; NDIS discussions 7 graduates, 15 concessional, 63 regarding the value of ECDPs offered students and 11 life members. in state school; and ECIA Round Table There are 318 organisational - Best Practice in Early Childhood members that come from the Intervention. ECTA provided following sectors: 35% approved feedback to Education Queensland kindergarten providers, 22% LDC (EQ) regarding the review of their with a further 12% LDC who offer policies and the DET Strategic Plan an approved kindergarten provider, 2017-2021. 16% State Schools, 10% non-State Members attended the launch of the Schools and 5% FDC, OSHC or other. Elders as Storytellers campaign and There are 502 Individual/ various industry events. concessional/student members that ECTA participation in the ABC identified as working in the following program The Learning Curve along settings: approved kindergarten with advocacy through participation program (30%); State Schools (25%); in the Education Minister’s Early LDC (17%); non-State Schools (8%); Childhood Reference Group led to students (6%); tertiary (5%) and the establishment of a Transition to OSHC, FDC or other (9%). School Statement Working Group Members were represented by and subsequent establishment of a ECTA through ECTA participation consent form to allow kindergarten in a wide range of stakeholder teachers to send Transition to School reference groups including: Statements directly to schools. Department of Education and The consent form also allows 2 Educating Young Children – Learning and teaching in the early childhood years Vol 23, No 3, 2017 EDITORIAL kindergarten and prep teachers to contact each other rating the presentation as excellent. I congratulate our to discuss how to best support the transition to school conference committee on selecting 43 high quality, of individual children. relevant presentations that gave a very broad range (Following the ABC Learning Curve program ECTA of topics to those working with children from birth was invited to participate in an Early Childhood Panel to eight years of age. Once again, we will reflect Discussion organised by Protecting Childhood. The on feedback from the conference to select webinar recording of the discussion is available online at: presenters for next year. The conference committee https://youtu.be/R1hh-sFs7mA ) is in full swing organising next year’s conference and I encourage you all to place Saturday 30th June 2018 ECTA encourages kindergartens to advocate for the on your PD calendar. creation of generic email addresses at each school e.g.