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Practice guide
Early childhood learning trajectories: User guide
This user guide is for teachers and educators working in early childhood education and care (ECEC). It will help you use the learning trajectories, to strengthen your curriculum and inform your pedagogical decision-making.
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Executive functions: Trajectory
This Early Childhood Learning Trajectory looks at children’s progress in executive functions to help you plan the next steps in their learning and development.
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Language and communication: Trajectory
This Early Childhood Learning Trajectory looks at children’s progress in language and communication to help teachers and educators plan the next steps in their learning and development.
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Mathematical thinking: Trajectory
This Early Childhood Learning Trajectory looks at children’s progress in mathematical thinking to help teachers and educators plan the next steps in their learning and development.
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Physical development: Trajectory
This Early Childhood Learning Trajectory looks at children’s progress in physical development to help teachers and educators plan the next steps in their learning and development.
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Social and emotional learning: Trajectory
This Early Childhood Learning Trajectory looks at children’s progress in social and emotional learning to help teachers and educators plan the next steps in their learning and development.
Research report
Early childhood learning trajectories: The evidence base
Explains the domains of children’s learning and development that are covered by the early childhood learning trajectories.
Video
Formative assessment in English
Formative assessment is a teaching practice that evidence says makes a difference. In this video, Melissa Garstang-Leary explains how she uses formative assessment in her English lessons.
Video
Formative assessment in mathematics
Formative assessment is a teaching practice that evidence says makes a difference. In this video, Sue Davis explains how she uses formative assessment in her mathematics lessons.
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Formative assessment in science
Formative assessment is a teaching practice that evidence says makes a difference. In this video, Darcie Clarke explains how she uses formative assessment in her science lessons.
Practice resource
Formative assessment rubric
This rubric outlines a set of capabilities to do with the evidence-based practice of formative assessment.
Article
There is no such thing as an ‘average’ school
We might associate ‘top schools’ with having the lion's share of academic high-achievers. However, when we look at the distribution of achievement across all students within schools and compare it to average differences between schools, the story is not so straightforward.