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A basic introduction to child development theories - Centre for Learning Innovation. A short summary of our favourite child development theorists
http://lrrpublic.cli.det.nsw.edu.au/lrrSecure/Sites/LRRView/7401/documents/theories_outline.pdf The Center on the Developing Child’s diverse activities align around building an R&D (research and development) platform for science-based innovation, and transforming the policy and practice landscape that supports and even demands change. We do this because society pays a huge price when children do not reach their potential, because half a century of policies and programs have not produced breakthrough outcomes, and because dramatic advances in science are ready to be used to achieve a promising future for every child. http://developingchild.harvard.edu/ Enhancing and Practicing Executive Function Skills with Children from Infancy to Adolescence below is a link to where the original of this document is housed on the Centre on the Developing Child Harvard University website. https://developingchild.harvard.edu/resourcetag/executive-function/ 
Ready Together - provides great insight into early learning and brain development and can be used by staff working with young children and their families.
Staff can use the resource to:
Taking the Talk resource aims to help professional and community workers to provide opportunities
for families to: • begin talking about their stories of their children’s development while the worker listens. • continue telling these stories as their children develop from being a baby, to a toddler and then throughout their childhood years. • explore opportunities to support their children’s development through play and learning. https://www.childrens.health.qld.gov.au/wp-content/uploads/PDF/CDP/TTT-booklet.pdf | ||