You have been overseas for 10 years. You return to Australia to discover that there has been significant investment in, and resultant changes to Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC). You have decided to undertake study

TCHR5003: Principles and Practices in Early Childhood Education
Assessment Task 2: Report
Task: Respond to each of the questions below.
You have been overseas for 10 years. You return to Australia to discover that there has been significant investment in, and resultant changes to Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC). You have decided to undertake study in this area and you are sent on placement to a new high quality
ECEC service that has achieved an Exceeding rating from ACECQA. This centre represents to you
everything a high quality centre should be doing for the children, families and educators. You have
been asked to write an analysis of this centre and explain how the centre achieved the ‘exceeding
quality status. To this, please respond to the following:
1. Explain what the Exceeding rating means
2. What are the characteristics of this ECEC service that has achieved an Exceeding rating? Be
sure to include at least 4 areas of the 7 Quality Areas of the National Quality Standard
(ACECQA, 2018).
3. How does the service reflect the five principles and eight practices of the Early Years
Learning Framework?
Use the unit materials, National Quality Standard (NQS) (ACECQA, 2018) and Early Years Learning
Framework (EYLF) (DET, 2019) to justify your responses.