The Queensland kindergarten learning guideline (QKLG) supports kindergarten teachers’ and educators’ professional practice in a range of contexts across Queensland.
The QKLG adopts the Early Years Learning Framework V2.0 (EYLF V2.0) vision:
‘All children engage in learning that promotes confident and creative individuals and successful lifelong learners. All children are active and informed members of their communities with knowledge of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives.’
The EYLF V2.0 vision guides quality practice and promotes inclusive education and positive outcomes for children. It aligns with the Alice Springs (Mparntwe) Education Declaration and supports the declaration’s commitment to improve educational outcomes for young Australians and to provide opportunities to learn about the diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures as well as seeing Aboriginal children and Torres Strait Islander children thrive.
The QKLG recognises that all children bring with them diverse identities and backgrounds. It acknowledges parents/carers and extended family members as children’s first teachers and values the vital role families play in children’s lives and ongoing learning.
The QKLG is designed to support teachers and educators to plan and implement quality child-centred kindergarten programs in partnership with children, parents/carers, family and community members and professional partners. The QKLG provides specific advice to support kindergarten teachers and educators to:
- make evidence-informed decisions to promote and enrich children’s holistic learning, development and wellbeing
- communicate and build respectful relationships with children, families, communities and professional partners
- promote children’s agency through play and other purposeful interactions
- assess children’s learning and development to inform effective teaching, learning and assessment
- support continuity of learning, and positive transitions, including children’s transition to school.
- Last updated:
- 31 July 2024
