EYLF Learning Outcome 4

Children are confident and involved learners

Children can improve their cognitive abilities through a play-based curriculum. Early childhood educators can help children think and learn by providing supportive:

• resources
• relationships
• experiences
• and environments.

Children's interests and EYLF 4

The Interest Forest is an online programming tool with hundreds of children's interests for early childhood educators to explore. The following interest topics relate to learning outcome four.

• Problem solving
• Games with rules
• Nature play
• STEM
• Design and making
• Books
• Art and self-expression

The following sub-outcomes will help you find even more interest topics.

Sub-outcomes for EYLF 4

• 4.1 Children develop a growth mindset and learning dispositions such as curiosity, cooperation, confidence, creativity, commitment, enthusiasm, persistence, imagination and reflexivity.
• 4.2 Children develop a range of learning and thinking skills and processes such as problem-solving, inquiry, experimentation, hypothesising, researching and investigating.
• 4.3 Children transfer and adapt what they have learned from one context to another.
• 4.4 Children resource their own learning through connecting with people, places, technologies and natural and processed materials.

Explore the EYLF

Explore all the EYLF Learning Outcomes, with links to children's interest topics, on The Interest Forest.