Age-appropriate pedagogies

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​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:

• enacting the K–12 Curriculum, assessment and reporting framework​ (K–12 Framework) and a whole school approach to pedagogy ​
• supporting positive and confident transitions
  
• enhancing Kindergarten to Year 2 continuity and alignment.
  

Departmental staff can access practical teaching and learning resources aligned to age-appropriate pedagogies via the Curriculum gateway (search ‘K2 sandpit’) or the EFI catalogue (search ‘K2 capability suite’).​

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.