Monday, April 16, 2007

Children's Programs - Babies and Toddlers

Planning for babies and toddlers occurs through relationship-based experiences and interactions. The emphasis is to promote and maintain a secure attachment between a child and their primary caregiver (see primary caregiving), then with the wider environment. Relationship-based programming recognises that children need to feel safe and secure in a predictable and responsive environment. Programs are dynamic and responsive to individual children's interests and intrinsically motivated purposes, taking into consideration a child's emerging sense of autonomy, agency, identity and belonging and opportunities to experience interdependence and independence.

Staff and families work in partnership to offer children potential pathways that are individually relevant and challenging. Various lenses are used to achieve a programming cycle of noticing a child's pusuits, behaviours and communication and striving to understand them in the context of the environment. Staff then plan to offer children opportunities to extend or repeat their learning and revisit past experiences. These lenses revolve around children's secure attachment and patterns of relationship and connection, their wellbeing and involvement in the environment and their primary caregiver's ability to be emotionally available to children as individuals.

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