Teaching Excellence is a comprehensive approach to supporting teaching quality in Kindergarten and Pre-Prep through the development of skills and knowledge in sector staff from Victorian funded Kindergartens.
Teaching Excellence is supported by a new Early Childhood Hub (the Hub), a highly interactive professional learning platform that allows early childhood teachers, educators and educational and service leaders to access high-quality, on-demand and tailored supports to meet their specific learning needs. The Hub has a range of on-demand self-paced eLearning opportunities and will also deliver coaching and mentoring programs. The Hub was launched in August 2025 and will continue to expand over the coming years.
The Victorian Early Years Learning and Development Framework (VEYLDF)
The Victorian Early Years Learning and Development Framework (VEYLDF) includes a range of discipline-specific guidelines and practice resources. It supports all professionals who work with children aged 0 to 8.
Victorian Kindergarten Learning Progressions
The Learning Progressions describe how children typically develop over time across eight key learning domains. They’re not checklists or tick-box assessments. Instead, they:
- reflect a developmental continuum, showing a range of capabilities from emerging to more advanced
- align closely with the VEYLDF Outcomes
- help educators notice and describe learning with shared, profession-informed language
- support intentional teaching, formative assessment, and transitions.
Importantly, the progressions were designed to be used in everyday practice: to guide your thinking, shape planning conversations, and deepen your documentation.
To help educators connect the learning progressions to the VEYLDF, clear mapping has been established across each of the eight learning domains. These show how the progressions enhance and extend the VEYLDF Outcomes by offering more granular, observable indicators of development.
A professional learning module on the learning progressions has been made available on the Early Childhood Hub.
Resources
- Victorian Kindergarten Learning Progressions (PDF, 1.3KB): for information on the Learning Progressions. Refer to page 8 for alignment with the VEYLDF Learning and Development Outcomes.
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