Available courses
ABC Kids: Exploring science content knowledge with Imagine This
Children are born scientists. From birth, they start exploring their world and building an understanding of how things work and how we communicate. They are ever-curious and have lots of questions. T…
Action research in behaviour guidance: The Phoenix Cups® approach (2-part series)
This course is designed to support educators in developing a better understanding of the complexity of children’s behaviour and why a timely and consistent approach is important. You will be asked th…
Anti-bias approaches in early childhood
In this course, Dr Red Ruby Scarlet addresses key critical questions on embedding anti-bias approaches in everyday practice. She talks about what anti-bias approaches are and how they are interrelate…
Being the champion for children who are impacted by trauma and adversity
Children who experience trauma can have their sense of belonging and identity impacted. For some, this impact can be lifelong. It is critical that we are aware of the different types of trauma that c…
Belonging, Being and Becoming: the Early Years Learning Framework (V2.0)
This professional learning course is designed for anyone working in early childhood settings who want to increase or refresh their understanding of the Early Years Learning Framework (V2.0). The Earl…
Big life events: Impacts on children, families and communities
In this course, you will explore a range of big life events that commonly impact children, along with their families and communities, in the early years. You’ll seek to contextualise these impacts an…
Child Safe Organisations - National Principles (11-part series)
These courses have been provided to Early Childhood Australia for Subscribers from the Australian Human Rights Commission. As part of the Child Safe Organisations project, the Australian Government c…
Creating a community of support for children and families experiencing vulnerability
This course is suitable for all educators looking to build their confidence in supporting children and families who are experiencing vulnerabilityin an approved education and care setting. This is a …
Dealing with stress, pressure and burnout in education settings
In this course, you will learn about stress, pressure and burnout and how these may impact your lifestyle. The course critically examines stress, pressure and burnout and provides strategies that you…
Delving deeper into documenting and assessing children's learning
This course expands on the ideas and concepts outlined in the introductory course, ‘Documenting and assessing children’s learning with Dr Anne Kennedy’. It is highly recommended—though not essential—…
Documenting and assessing children's learning with Dr Anne Kennedy
This course elaborates on how documenting and assessing children’s learning helps educators gain a deeper understanding of children’s interests, strengths and abilities. It also explains how educator…
Duty of care: Work health and safety in education and care
This course is suitable for individuals working in education and care settings in Australia. However, each individual in the workplace has a different level of responsibility in relation to work heal…
Dysregulation and maladaptive behaviours in young children (2-part series)
This course is designed to support educators in developing a better understanding of the complexity of children’s behaviour and why a timely and consistent approach is important. You will be asked th…
Emotion Coaching: A transformational tool
This course has been designed for educators on how to be effective with children with big feelings and behaviours. Particularly across long term and the short term. This course explores the five step…
Engineering creativity: Celebrating loose parts play for all ages
Engineering creativity in loose parts play’ involves open-ended and easily manipulated materials that children can use to construct, deconstruct and transport, both to support them in developing work…
eSafety Early Years: Creating a safe online environment
This course is specifically for Directors and Managers of early learning services throughout Australia. It is designed to enable a review of a service’s online safety processes and practices. You wil…
eSafety Early Years: We MAKE and DO with technology
Fostering creativity is an essential component of early childhood education. This course explores the ways children can create in digital contexts. You will explore practical examples of the types of…
eSafety Early Years: We SAY and SHARE with technology
Communicating in digital contexts is among the first experiences children have directly using technologies. This course examines the benefits and risks associated with communicating in digital contex…
eSafety Early Years: We WATCH and EXPLORE with technology
This course focuses on how children engage with content in digital contexts. This is the most common way young children engage online, especially at home. You will learn how to choose content that en…
Every child has a right to be included
This course is aimed to assist educators in developing their understanding of what it means to support Aboriginal children to feel a genuine sense of belonging within their early learning community. …
Fostering trusting relationships to support children with anxiety
In the early years of life, many children experience anxiety. There are different reasons as to why this may occur. This course aims to offer early childhood educators an opportunity to examine some …
Introducing inclusion: Looking at diversity and adversity through an inclusive framework
Every child has the right to both feel included and be included. Educators play a vital role in ensuring that every child is aware of this right. In this course, you will learn how an inclusive frame…
Introduction to the National Quality Framework for early childhood education and care
The National Quality Framework was introduced in 2012 and was the result of an agreement between all Australian governments to work together to provide better educational and developmental outcomes f…
Making connections with neurodivergent children through play (2-part series)
This seriesis suitable for all educators currently working in an approved education and care setting across Australia. This is a foundation course that focuses on essential knowledge to guide childre…
Maths is everywhere
This course explores how educators can support children’s maths and numeracy learning by weaving mathematical concepts and ideas into day-to-day practice, play and outdoor programs. It also looks at …
Music in early childhood (2-part series)
Music has long been regarded as an important part of early childhood education. In this course, explore music as an integral and vibrant part of a child’s family, community and culture, and how it ca…
Partnerships with families
This course has been developed to help educators build and strengthen partnerships with families on an ongoing basis, taking into account different circumstances and settings. It includes video inter…
Play-based learning: Using the Pedagogical Play-framework
Play-based learning is a cornerstone of early childhood education. In recent years, the concept of intentional teaching has also gained momentum. This course discusses a new approach to balancing ope…
Playing with gratitude
This course examines the science of gratitude and outlines how combining gratitude with co-play enables positive change in the wellbeing of children from birth to age five. It also explores the devel…
Preventing harmful sexual behaviour in family day care
Children in your care may be at risk of sexual harm or abuse from other children in your care, or from children in your home. If you have children in your home (especially between the ages of 10 and …
Privacy awareness in children's services
What does privacy look like in children’s services, and how do educators ensure they’re not in breach of the Privacy Act 1988? Using case studies from the sector, this course examines different aspec…
Reconciliation in children's education and care: Taking the first steps
This course is suitable for all educators looking to build their confidence in taking their first steps or next steps in embedding reconciliation in an approved education and care setting. This is a …
STEM in Early Childhood
STEM in early childhood is a starting point to learn more about how the content areas of Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology (STEM) link with other curriculum areas and programming in ea…
Supporting bilingualism during early childhood
Australia’s population is one of the most culturally and linguistically diverse in the world, with an increasing number of children growing up in homes where more than one language is spoken. These c…
Supporting children's self-regulation: birth to three years
This course explains how educators can help very young children understand, name and manage their emotions and begin self-regulating their behaviour. By establishing solid relationships with children…
Supporting children’s self-regulation: 3-5 years
In this course, we focus on how to help children learn to manage their own attention, emotions, thinking, and behaviour. Self-regulation develops rapidly in the early years, through experiences and r…
Take me outside: An introduction to outdoor learning
This introductory course is about the importance of outdoor learning in young children’s lives. It will inspire you to create an outdoor learning environment full of wonder, curiosity and active play…
Taking notice and taking care
Our behaviours, thoughts and feelings can be responses to stressors in our lives. We experience mind-body responses to positive and negative stress with all of our senses and demonstrate them through…
The role of the family day care coordinator: Leading quality
The role of the family day care coordinator: Leading quality is a resource intended to support family day care coordinators in managing their multifaceted and complex role. The course addresses key a…
Understanding young children’s behaviour and empowering their future (2-part series)
This series is suitable for all educators currently working in an approved education and care setting across Australia. This is a foundation course that focuses on essential knowledge to guide childr…
Using Critical Reflection
This course explains how critical reflection forms a crucial part of professional practice in early childhood education and care. It will provide you with a model and suggestions on how to make criti…
Working with the ECA Code of Ethics
Coming from the Greek word ethos meaning ‘character’, the word ethics describes ways of being, thinking and acting based on one’s values and virtues. A code of ethics, by extension, is a set of clear…
Your home, your business (2-part series)
Partnership statement This series of two online learning courses is a collaboration between Family Day Care Australia and Early Childhood Australia. Learners will be guided through a series of concep…
Understanding and making art: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art in early childhood settings
This module introduces the richness and diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art. We explore ways educators and young children can approach art appreciation and art-making inspired by A…
Putting art in place (2-part series)
Putting art in place by Dr Red Ruby Scarlet is a two-part professional learning series that focuses on art and how it can facilitate the development of relationships. That includes relationships with…
Initiating a Reconciliation Action Plan: Where do I start?
This course will introduce early childhood professionals to the concept and context of reconciliation in early childhood education within Australia, and where to start when initiating a Reconciliatio…
Environments for learning: Intentional spaces
This course looks at the role of the physical environment in children’s learning and the importance of setting up a well-organised indoor space. It will help you create a variety of rich play and lea…
A good place to be a child: Creating effective early learning environments
According to architect Christopher Day, a building for small children must be magical and full of reverent wonder, like an ancient fairy tale. The physical environment—often known as the ‘third teach…
An insight into Autism Spectrum Disorder in the early years (2-part series)
Behaviour is a form of communication. Even if a person isn’t saying words, their behaviour and body language can show what they might be thinking or feeling. Children living with Autism Spectrum Diso…