NQS 5 – Relationships with Children | EduTribe for early childhood educators

2025-2027 Educator’s Program and Reflection Guide

Introducing our 2025-2027 Educator’s Program and Reflection Guide, an essential, all-in-one tool designed for early childhood educators to use every-day. Inside you’ll find: Key dates for 2025-2027 Templates for essential…

8 Strategies to Reduce Challenging Behaviour Fact Sheet

We know that managing challenging behaviours in early childhood education can sometimes feel overwhelming. We’ve created a fact sheet with 8 simple and effective strategies to help you reduce challenging…

Connection Vs Attention

Can attention seeking be connection seeking? What is the difference between attention and connection? How to deal with attention seeking behaviour? All those questions are very common in our community…

NQS 1 - Educational Program and Practice

Diversity and Inclusion Policy

This policy ensures that the culture at your service is inclusive of people from diverse backgrounds, genders, lifestyle preferences, ethnicities, abilities, and experiences. It promotes equity and equality, fostering a…

Exploring Art and Tech: Fun Ways to Boost Creativity in Kids

Technology can add new dimensions to creative arts play that make it even more exciting. So, let’s explore how we can mix these two things to spark endless creativity for kids.

How to Avoid Saying “Be Careful” and Encourage Problem-Solving Instead

Children often ignore when we say the same thing again and again. “Be careful” is one of those phrases. We say it here and there. At the same time, we…

How to Help Children Regulate Their Emotions

Ability to regulate emotions is the biggest challenge for children. At the same time, the ability to regulate emotions underprints EYLF outcome for children to have a strong sense of…

Identifying children’s emotions and feelings

This interactive poster set is a great tool to help children identify their emotions and feelings. Easy steps on how to use: Print out the “how are you feeling today”…

Inappropriate Discipline Fact Sheet

An essential part of helping children feel a sense of ‘belonging, being, and becoming’ involves teaching them to understand how their actions and behaviour impact themselves and others. Want to…

Interactions with Children Policy

This policy outlines the responsibilities every educator takes on when they are interacting with children. Interactions with Children Policy

Is Sharing Really Caring?

How should we teach sharing to children? Explore some practical strategies in this article written for the EduTribe community by our talented contributor, Kate Visser. Is sharing really caring? by…

Mandatory Reporting – Video

A must-watch video that explains why Mandatory Reporting is so important for early childhood educators, what to look for and what to do. Did you know that from 1 November…

Meeting the Needs of Every Learner: Strategies for Supporting Students with Diverse Abilities

Inclusive environments recognise the diverse ages, interests, preferences, abilities, and learning styles of all children. They can play a crucial role in promoting children’s learning, development, and engagement. Creating inclusive…

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…

Positive Behaviour Support for Early Childhood Professionals

Positive Behaviour Support – Podcasts for Early Childhood Professionals with Emer Donohoe (Regional Coordinator for Inclusion Support) and Sarah Woods (Regional Manager for Inclusion Support) We asked Sarah and Emer,…

Positive Behaviour Support Plan

Create a supportive environment for every child with our free Positive Behaviour Support Plan (PBSP). This editable template helps you respond to challenging behaviours and guides planning in partnership with…

Positive Behaviour Support Planning Video

Watch this short training video to learn how to complete a Positive Behaviour Support Plan (PBSP) in four simple steps. Look out for links to relevant NQS Quality Areas as…

Positive Behaviour Support Policy

Our approach focuses on promoting positive behaviour in children and ensuring a safe, secure and supportive environment for their growth and development. Positive Behaviour Support Policy

Protective Behaviours – Video

Educators need to understand protective behaviours if they are going to supervise children safely. This video covers the expectations, signs and reporting associated with protective behaviours in early childhood settings….

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.

Strategies to Manage Aggressive Behaviour in Your Class

Surprisingly, aggressive behaviours can be common when children come together in group settings and don’t yet know how to solve problems. What is aggressive behaviour? Hitting, kicking, slapping, scratching, throwing…

Supporting Neurodiversity Fact Sheet

Every child is unique – and neurodiversity is a part of that uniqueness. This free fact sheet is designed to support educators in creating inclusive, supportive environments for children with…

Talking about Sun Safety with Children

You can find more information about sun safety at the Cancer Council. Link: https://www.cancer.org.au/cancer-information/causes-and-prevention/sun-safety/campaigns-and-events/slip-slop-slap-seek-slide

Wellbeing in Early Childhood Education and Care Fact Sheet

Educators are the heart of early childhood education. Your wellbeing shapes the care, relationships and learning you provide every day. That’s why it’s important to also focus on you, too….

What Works Better Than Forcing a Child to Say Sorry

In the complex journey of being an educator, guiding children toward genuine empathy and understanding is one of the most significant challenges educators face. One common scenario where this challenge…

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.