Resources

Welcome to our growing library of free resources for early childhood educators.

Here you’ll find a wide range of free resources, including training videos, editable templates, policies, educator diaries, posters and so much more.

As a member, you can easily customise resources to suit your needs and add your service logo.  Download them for free and print or use them online. Just make sure everyone using our resources is an EduTribe member, so invite your team to join EduTribe today.

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2026 Educational Leaders’ Diary & Planner

We’re excited to introduce our 2026 Educational Leaders’ Diary and Planner! It’s our all-in-one tool designed to save you time, keep you organised and help you lead with confidence all…

Critical Reflection for Early Childhood Educators

Critical Reflection – Webinar for Early Childhood Educators with Elsa Norvill We asked Elsa Norvill, a Learning and Development Specialist, to answer our hottest questions about Critical Reflection and received…

Differences between Reggio, Montessori and Steiner Mythologies for Early Learning Teachers

What are the differences between Reggio, Montessori and Steiner mythologies for an early learning teacher? Let’s look at different aspects of all three approaches. Teacher Role A Montessori educator is…

Educational Leader – 5 First Actions in the Role

If you just started a new role as an Educational Leader, you might wonder: Where do I start? What are my first actions? Let’s break it down into some specific…

Educational Leader Team Meetings Guide

For Educational Leaders it’s essential to meet with other educators and staff to discuss matters related to teaching, learning and child wellbeing. And certainly, you want to have meetings that…

Educational Leadership Session 1 Being a Leader

Step into leadership with confidence. This resource offers helpful tips for educational leaders, along with a project to help build strength-based relationships and create a supportive team environment for everyone.  …

Educational Leadership Session 2 Know Your Role

The next step in becoming an educational leader is knowing your role. This resource provides clear steps to help you build strong relationships and collaborate with educators.   How to be an Educational…

Educational Leadership Session 3 Supporting Educators

Learn how to provide support and lead effectively, even when your time is limited, with our practical tips and step-by-step strategies.  How to be an Educational Leader Session 3

Essential Activities To Create Positive Wellbeing – Tips For Early Childhood Educators

While there is a lot of information on what it takes to keep our bodies healthy, there is not as much focus on what we need to keep our minds…

EYLF Documentation Synonyms

Whether we write reports, observations, fill in a Reflective Journal or do any other type of EYLF documentation, it is handy to have a good list of descriptive words. Please feel free…

FREE Online Professional Development Programs for Early Childhood Educators

If you are interested in free online professional development courses, workshops and webinars for Early Childhood Educators this is the right place to look at! We would like to share…

How Often Should Educators Be Reflecting?

How often should we be reflecting? This’s one of the most common questions we come across about Critical Reflection. Is once a week or once a month enough? That’s why,…

How To Be An Educational Leader | Part 1 – Being a Leader

Step into leadership with confidence. This resource offers helpful tips for educational leaders, along with a project to help build strength-based relationships and create a supportive team environment for everyone.  …

How To Be An Educational Leader | Part 2 – Knowing Your Role

The next step in becoming an educational leader is knowing your role. This resource provides clear steps to help you build strong relationships and collaborate with educators.   The Australian Children’s Education &…

How To Be An Educational Leader | Part 3 – Supporting Educators

Learn how to provide support and lead effectively, even when your time is limited, with our practical tips and step-by-step strategies.  A reminder that the Australian Children’s Education & Care…

How to Document Observations

Teachers and educators use various means of observation to collect information on what is occurring in their rooms. Observing is the act of looking and watching. But in early childhood…

How to Make Difficult Conversations Easier

One of the more difficult tasks in the workplace is talking to someone about an issue that is causing concern. It does not matter if you are a line manager…

Inspiring TED Talks For Early Childhood Educators

Ted Talks can be motivating and informing. Here is a list of 10 inspiring TED talks specifically for Early Childhood Educators. The brightest minds in their industries share their insights,…

Learning Story Template

Use this template to write a learning story to help you plan future activities. Learning Story Template

Look What I Can Do Now (Summative Assessment)

This template can be used as a summative assessment tool when considering what children have achieved so far in their learning. Look What You Can Do Now Template

Me and My Family Template

This template details things you need to know about a child coming into your care. Beautifully illustrated, it will give you lots of information about the child so you can…

NQS 1 Self-Audit Tool

Ensure your service is meeting the highest standards with our NQS 1 Self-Audit Tool. Designed to help educational leaders’ assess and reflect on their service’s quality in alignment with the…

NQS 2 Self-Audit Tool

Ensure your service is meeting the highest standards with our NQS 2 Self-Audit Tool. Designed to help educational leaders’ assess and reflect on their service’s quality in alignment with the…

NQS 3 Self-Audit Tool

Use our free NQS 3 Self-Audit Tool to access and reflect on your service’s alignment with Quality Area 3: Physical Environment. A practical resource for educational leaders to support continuous…

NQS 4 Self-Audit Tool

Use our free, practical NQS 4 Self-Audit Tool to access and reflect on your service’s alignment with Quality Area 4: Staffing Arrangements. Explore how staffing arrangements impact the quality of…

NQS 5 Self-Audit Tool

Are you building quality relationships with children at your service and providing them with a space to confidently explore, learn and play? Use our free, practical NQS 5 Self-Audit Tool…

Observation Template

This template provides a structured way to document children’s behaviours, followed by prompts to reflect on what these behaviours mean and how it links to the EYLF Learning Outcomes.    Fill…

Reflective Practice – Bank of Questions

As we mentioned in our free webinar on Critical Reflection, having a bank of questions is very helpful in your reflective practice. We collected questions you can ask yourself or working…

Reflective Practice for Early Childhood Educators

If you have questions about reflective practice, using a reflective journal and would like to learn how to reflect meaningfully, this article is for you. REFLECTIVE PRACTICE FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD…

Room Program or Project Plan

This resource provides a comprehensive framework for developing room programs and project plans, with prompts to create links to the Early Years Learning Framework.  Download our Room Program or Project…

Safe Sleep Guide Poster

Sleeping children need to be safe at all times. Our safe sleeping guide will remind staff of their responsibilities to ensure (amongst other things) that children are not placed in…

Skill Building: Being Present

Being present is also know as being mindful. When you are present you are focused on what you are doing. This can reduce stress, improve focus and memory, and improve health generally.

Staff Arrangements Policy

Our commitment to meeting our regulatory requirements in relation to staffing is clearly outlined in this policy.  Staff Arrangements Policy