This year, an extra 260 services are now using the Early Years Assessment and Learning Tool (EYALT) in their funded Three- and Four-Year-Old Kindergarten programs.
This is on top of the more than 700 services that received access to the EYALT in 2023, when the program was first rolled out.
The EYALT is the Victorian Government’s approved early learning assessment tool. It enables early childhood teachers and educators delivering kindergarten programs to make consistent observations and assessments of children’s learning, helping them to plan and deliver quality kindergarten programs.
Professional learning
Services are reminded they are still able to access the EYALT online professional learning program for their teaching teams in terms 2 and 3, 2024. To register, refer to EYALT professional learning program.
You can also access 2 self-paced online EYALT eLearn modules on the Information Sharing and MARAM Online Learning System and EYALT instructional videos are available by logging in to EYALT.
Funding grants and other support
All new services with access to the EYALT in 2024 are eligible to receive one-off funding grants, including:
- contribution backfill funding for teaching teams to attend the 2024 professional learning program and self-paced eLearn modules
- a change management grant to help incorporate use of the EYALT in your service.
Services that accessed the EYALT for the first time in 2023 are also eligible to receive one-off backfill contribution funding for new staff to attend the professional learning if they have new staff to the service. More funding information is available in the funding guidelines on the Early Years Assessment and Learning Tool webpage.
Local practice support is available through your local kindergarten improvement advisors. To contact them, refer to your regional Early Childhood Improvement Branch on the Contact an Early Childhood Improvement Branch webpage.
Written and technical support is available by logging into EYALT. If you are unsure about your login details, please email the Assessment for Learning team at early.years.assessment@education.vic.gov.au
Later this year, we will seek expressions of interests from services interested in using the EYALT from 2025.
Find out more
For more information, refer to Early Years Assessment and Learning Tool.
For further enquiries, please contact the Assessment for Learning team by email: early.years.assessment@education.vic.gov.au
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