National Quality Standard
|QA1||Educational program and practice|
|QA2||Children’s health and safety|
|QA5||Relationships with children|
|QA6||Collaborative partnerships with families and communities|
Australian Professional Standards for Teachers
|1||Know students and how they learn|
|2||Know the content and how to teach it|
|3||Plan for and implement effective teaching and learning|
|4||Create and maintain supportive and safe learning environments|
|7||Engage professionally with colleagues, parents/carers and the community|
Learning to control their own behaviour, emotions and thoughts in beneficial ways is a key development process for young children. Educators (and parents) can play an important role in helping children to develop better self-regulation skills.
Self-regulation refers to the ways in which children regulate or control their own behaviour, emotions and thoughts in ways that are beneficial to their overall development. Learning to self-regulate is a key task during early childhood. Better self-regulation skills have been associated with a range of more positive outcomes across a lifetime, and are particularly important in the transition to school. Educators and parents (individually and in cooperation) can help children to improve their self-regulation skills.