Course overview
This course will support preservice teachers in developing capacities to participate as a member of the teaching team in an early years setting, with infants and toddlers, through engaging with children and planning, implementing and documenting learning in co-constructed play-based curriculum. Preservice teachers will explore the role of the educator in an infant and toddler context. Preservice teachers will focus on content exploring, social, economic and political contexts for early years education, the importance of partnerships and relationships with families, community and other agencies and the organisational and legal requirements, policies and practice required in infant and toddler settings. Preservice teachers will focus on constructivist based pedagogies through engaging children in planning, implementing documenting and reflecting upon learning and development through play in infant and toddler settings.
Course learning outcomes
- Display effective professional relationships and dispositions with children, families and staff in the early years setting
- Apply knowledge and skills with creativity, initiative and a high level of personal autonomy, accountability and respect while working in a team setting within the field and on campus
- Apply an advanced body of knowledge of children birth to 3 years in planning and engaging with children in an emergent inquiry based pedagogy
- Design and evaluate the use of documentation to demonstrate children's learning and development
- Manage the daily tasks, routines and administrative duties associated with the work of educators in an early years setting
- Critically reflect on teaching and learning experiences in the light of social, economic and political contexts, including professional standards, policies, legal and ethical guidelines for the profession and developing beliefs of own role as an early years educator