Accessing and Using AEDC Data

Area of focus

Early Years

When

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Wed 26th Mar 2025

Where

RECORDED WEBINAR: Registered participants will receive a link to a recording of this professional learning event, and a link to associated resources, which will be emailed directly to them on 26 March 2025.

Who should attend

Leadership:
- Heads of School.
Teachers:
- Kindergarten.
- Prep.
- Grade 1
Specialist & Auxiliary:
- Kindergarten TA's.
- Prep TA's.
- Grade 1 TA's.

Who is speaking

Mark Seager (IST Early Years Consultant) and Jill Clennett (AEDC State & Territory Coordinator).

This 1-hour recorded webinar will focus on showing participants how to access and use the AEDC Data for their school in order to inform their teaching.

During this event, participants will have the opportunity to:

Learn about the AEDC.
Learn about the 5 key 'domains' for early childhood development that the AEDC collects data for:
- Physical health and wellbeing.
- Social Competence.
- Emotional maturity.
- Language and cognitive skills (school-based).
- Communication skills and general knowledge.
- Learn how to access and use the AEDC data for your school.
- Discuss the implications of the current data for your teaching in 2025 and beyound.

The Australian Early Development Census (AEDC) is a nationwide data collection of early childhood development at the time children commence their first year of full-time school.

The AEDC highlights what is working well and what needs to be improved or developed to support children and their families by providing evidence to support health, education and community policy and planning.

The AEDC domains have been shown to predict later mental health, wellbeing and academic success.

This event links to the Lifting Literacy Implementation Plan 2024 - 2026:

LLIP Early Years Milestone 1: Tasmanian children developmentally on track in the communication and language domains of the Australian Early Development Census (AEDC) are equal to/exceed the Australian average (page 5).

About our guest speaker:

Jill Clennett is the AEDC State and Territory Coordinator for Tasmania.