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.

  • 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.