content-left-bg.png
content-right-bg.png

Age-appropriate pedagogies

WebPartZone1_1
PublishingPageContent

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Age-appropriate pedagogies offer a research-driven and custom-built language about effective early years pedagogies and a decision-making framework that supports teachers to select and employ a range and balance of approaches and characteristics, when teaching to:

  • actively engage children in purposeful learning experiences
  • enhance learning outcomes
  • build positive dispositions towards learning, now and in the future.

AAP is evidence-based and flexible in nature. It supports teachers to plan and make decisions about teaching and learning experiences that are responsive to the child, teacher, context, curriculum and evidence of learning within and across diverse educational environments. It plays a key role in:

Departmental staff can access:
  • a whole school approach to pedagogy through Teaching and Learning Hub on Curriculum Gateway
  • the K2 sandpit by visiting QLearn (search 'K2 sandpit' and filter by 'Search openEQUELLA').

Research

The Foundation paper: Age-appropriate pedagogies for the early years of schooling provides the evidence base that informs teacher practice. Read the Foundation paper or the Foundation paper summary.

The age-appropriate pedagogies Progress and Implementation Reports outline findings and key messages from regions, schools and teachers implementing age-appropriate pedagogies. Read the Age Appropriate Pedagogies Program Progress Report 2016 and Age Appropriate Pedagogies Implementation Report 2016.

WebPartZone1_2

In this section

Contact

For more information about age-appropriate pedagogies, email K-2.strategy@qed.qld.gov.au.

WebPartZone2_1
WebPartZone2_2
WebPartZone2_3
WebPartZone3_1
WebPartZone3_2
WebPartZone3_3
WebPartZone3_4
WebPartZone4_1
WebPartZone5_1
WebPartZone5_2
WebPartZone6_1
WebPartZone6_2
WebPartZone7_1
WebPartZone7_2
WebPartZone8_1
WebPartZone8_2
WebPartZone9_1
Last updated 05 August 2025