You Can Do It! Education: Program Achieve (Early Childhood)

You Can Do It! Education

Program Achieve (Early Childhood) strengthens the social-emotional skills and positive attitudes of younger children.

Overview

Alignment with Be You Domains

Learning Resilience

Alignment with Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF)

Children are confident and involved learners
Children are connected with and contribute to their world
Children are effective communicators
Children have a strong sense of identity
Children have a strong sense of wellbeing

Alignment with Australian Curriculum

Health and PE

Target audience

Early learning

Target groups

Small group
Whole class

Aims

Program Achieve (Early Childhood) strengthens social-emotional skills (resilience, confidence, persistence, organisation, getting along), including positive attitudes of younger children. The program also aims to provide parents with supporting practices to increase their skills in teaching social-emotional skills to their young children.

Program theory

Social-emotional learning, cognitive behaviour, rational-emotive education, intrinsic motivation, resilience.

Topics

Confidence, persistence, organisation, getting along, resilience.

Cost

$395 (includes online, digital access to curriculum of lessons, classroom practices, 5 hand puppets, songs, posters, assessment survey, parent education guide).

Program structure

32 lessons. Lessons once a week (50???60 minutes).

Instructor

Psychologist
Educator
Wellbeing leader

Instructor training

Half-day workshop; part of our online e-learning course, Social-Emotional Learning for All: Best Practice of You Can Do It! Education.

Supporting resources or materials available with program

Workbook

Parent involvement

Attend information sessions
Homework
Written information provided to parents

Origin of program

Australia

You Can Do It! Education

Program authors

Michael E Bernard

: The Bernard Group, PO Box 405,East Melbourne VIC 8002 Australia

: +61 3 9415 8327

: enquiries@youcandoiteducation.com.au

: Visit website

Ratings

4/4 Evidence

2/4 Implementation

Summary of evidence factors

This is a summary of the evaluation or research study characteristics that contribute to the program’s evidence rating.

Positive impact on at least one outcome for children and/or young people?	Yes
Link between program description and theory of change	Comprehensive
Study design	Randomised control trial
Independence	Semi

Summary of implementation factors

This is a summary of the program’s characteristics that contribute to its implementation rating.

Feedback sought from participants	No
Feedback sought from instructors	No
Groups program is not suitable for	Not assessed
Training provided during study	Face to face train-the-trainer in person
Ongoing instructor support provided during study	Yes

Context

This is a summary of the context in which the evidence for the program was established.

Study Participants	Primary school
Country of Study/s	Australia
Location of Study/s in Australia	VIC
Evaluation of program in culturally and linguistically diverse populations	No
Evaluation of program in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people	No
Evaluation of program in low socioeconomic groups	Yes
Developmental based adaptations to program design and delivery	No
Evaluation of program in children and young people with disability and/or learning difference	No

Last updated: 17 July 2023