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In the Drivers Seat: Creating Your Own Reporting & Planning Tools For Use With The EYLF V2.0 (with Catharine Hydon)
Effective curriculum design and assessment practices rely on well-designed tools that support practitioners to both meet expectations and make learning visible. While there are many ‘off the shelf’ tools available, there is nothing quite like creating your own fit-for-purpose and responsive tools that enable innovation and enhance our sense of professional agency and collaboration.
This hands-on workshop will reference the expectations and possibilities of the EYLF (v2.0) and the NQS to think with participants and design tools, templates, and documentation approaches that put you and the team in the pedagogical driver’s seat. It promises to be a purposeful opportunity to learn more about how to enact the planning cycle in everyday practice. Educators will create and share draft-ready tools, ensuring evidence of children’s learning is meaningful, culturally responsive, and clearly linked to outcomes.
Bring your copy of the EYLF V2.0, planning documents, existing tools and templates – particularly those you would like to refine, review or recreate.
About Our Presenter Catharine Hydon:
Qualifications: Dip Teaching (Early Childhood); MEd (Early Childhood Education); Dip. Gov.; FICDA – Fellow of the Institute of Community Directors Australia; MICDA – Member of the Institute of Community Directors Australia.
With over 30 years experience leading and advocating for quality early childhood education and care, Catharine Hydon’s work as the Principal Consultant and Director at Hydon Consulting, focuses on supporting professionals to explore the relationship between theory and practice.
Catharine’s collaborative approach and engaging style have taken her across Australia, where she partners with leaders and educators in a collective effort to create meaning, define quality, and engage in the art of transformational change. Central to her work is the cultivation of professional dialogue that embraces diversity and invites deep reflection.
Informed by a Masters in early childhood education, specialising in innovative practice and governance, Catharine is driven by the need for principled approaches to education and leadership, especially in complex times. She brings stories of practice to the intersections of theory, fostering co-design and capacity sharing.
Catharine is a long-time member of Early Childhood Australia (ECA), actively contributing to ECA’s Reconciliation work and regularly writing for ECA publications and professional learning platforms. For the past five years, she has led the facilitator team for ECA’s Colloquia on Leadership and Ethics. In 2025, Catharine joined the Board of Family Day Care Queensland and continues to serve as a second-tier reviewer for ACECQA.
Catharine is a praxis enthusiast, leader and advocate for dynamic pedagogy. effective governance, principled decision-making, and ethical leadership that support positive outcomes for children and communities.
Contact: Mark Seager
Relevant Professional Standards
AITSL STANDARDS
2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 3.7,
5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.5,
6.1, 6.2, 6.3,
7.1, 7.2, 7.3
NQS ELEMENTS
1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.2.3,
1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.3.3,
6.1.1, 6.1.2, 6.1.3 6.2.1, 6.2.2,
7.2.1, 7.2.2, 7.2.3
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Who Should Attend
Teachers, Educators & TA’s using the EYLF and/or MTOP.
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Event Cost
Cost (Member)
$40
Cost (Non member)
$60