The National Quality Framework | Video 4: Documentation and linking with communities

The NQF series with Rhonda Livingstone, National Education Leader at ACECQA:
1) Educational Leadership:
• The National Quality F...
2) Recent changes to the National Quality Framework:
• The National Quality F...
3) Recent changes in how to achieve Exceeding NQS rating:
• The National Quality F...
4) Documentation and linking with communities:
• The National Quality F...
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ABOUT THIS SERIES:
Research shows quality education and care early in life leads to better health, education and employment outcomes later in life. The early years are critical for establishing self-esteem, resilience, healthy growth and capacity to learn. Quality education and care shapes every child’s future and lays the foundation for development and learning.
The National Quality Framework (NQF) introduced a new quality standard in 2012 to improve education and care in long day care, family day care, preschool/kindergarten, and outside school hours care services across Australia.
We spent time with Rhonda Livingstone, National Education Leader from ACECQA. Rhonda discusses the importance of the educational leader role, unpacks the NQF and recent changes, and discusses how all of these support continual quality improvement.
For more information on the NQF check out the Guide to the National Quality Framework on the ACECQA website.
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ABOUT THIS VIDEO:
Rhonda Livingstone discusses documentation, and why it is so important. Documentation captures meaningful information about children’s understandings, dispositions, knowledge, and skills. It also informs the content of the educational program and practice, and educators’ pedagogy. Documentation is required by law and the NQS. The educational program also needs to be on display and accessible to parents. Documentation is an integral part of the ongoing cycle of planning. It needs to be readily understood, meaningful, relevant and achievable.
QUESTIONS:
- Why do services need to document children’s learning?
- What does documentation need to consider?
- Why is it important to share documentation with families?
- What are the key items that need to be documented and shared with families?
- Is documentation understood by families?
- Are there key questions that educators and services should consider when documenting?
- In considering digital documentation, what are some key questions to consider?
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