Course overview
This course aims to support preservice teachers to develop capacities to participate as a member of a teaching team in an education setting for infants and toddlers. Preservice teachers will learn how to care for and engage effectively with infants and toddlers to facilitate wellbeing and learning. They will become familiar with the EYLF and use the framework to plan, implement and document learning, with an emphasis on a constructed play-based curriculum. Throughout the course, they will develop a professional identity and ethical practice relevant to caring for and educating young children in these education settings.
- The Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) context
- ECEC approaches and pedagogies
- Learning Environments
- Planning for meaningful learning
- Documentation and assessment of children's learning
- Partnerships with Families
- Creating a language rich environment
- Social and emotional learning
- Support and planning for physical development
- Preparing for placement and assessment preparation
Course learning outcomes
- Display effective professional relationships and dispositions with children, families, colleagues, and other professionals in the early years setting
- Apply knowledge and skills with initiative, accountability, and respect while working in a team setting within the field and on campus
- Apply and synthesise knowledge of children birth to 3 years in planning and engaging with children in an emergent inquiry-based pedagogy
- Design and evaluate critically documentation for children’s learning and development using the EYLF and other relevant frameworks and resources
- Manage the daily tasks, routines, and administrative duties associated with the work of educators in an early years setting
- Reflect on teaching and learning experiences in light of professional standards and ethical guidelines for the profession, frameworks, and developing beliefs of the role of early-years education
Availability
Class details
Magill
Class number 56055
Section TU01
Size 27
Available 27
Class number 52877
Section TU02
Size 27
Available 27
Class number 52878
Section TU03
Size 27
Available 27
Class number 52879
Section TU04
Size 27
Available 27
Class number 52880
Section TU05
Size 27
Available 27
Mawson Lakes
Class number 56056
Section TU01
Size 27
Available 27
Class number 52881
Section TU02
Size 27
Available 27
Class number 52882
Section TU03
Size 27
Available 27
Class number 52883
Section TU04
Size 27
Available 27
Class number 52884
Section TU05
Size 27
Available 27
Mt Gambier
Class number 56057
Section TU01
Size 20
Available 20
Whyalla
Class number 56058
Section TU01
Size 20
Available 20
Online
Class number 50189
Section 01OL
Size 30
Available 30
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