Professional Experience - Early Childhood Birth to 2 unit (EDP731)

Introduction

The Birth – 2 years’ placement in the Graduate Certificate in Education (Early Childhood) course is designed to enable graduates to become familiar with the child care and education context. This PE involves active observation and participation and increased engagement in teaching and learning activities in a birth to 2 years setting. It is conducted over two consecutive weeks (10 days). Throughout the placement graduates are required to maintain a professional planning file which must include planning; policy documents; resources for teaching and learning; and reflections on their own teaching and learning.

This placement is undertaken in Semester 2 only, in accordance with the Professional Experience Calendar. All students must be aware of the scheduled Professional Experience dates and be prepared to undertake a placement during the scheduled time. The dates of Professional Experience may only be changed in exceptional, unplanned circumstances. Date variations are assessed on a case-by-case basis by the Coordinator, Professional Experience in accordance with the Professional Experience Guidelines. Variations can be submitted via the Variation Request Form. 

Summary

Unit name	Professional Experience - Early Childhood Birth to 2
Unit code	EDP731
College/School	Arts and Society Faculty of Education
Discipline	Education
Coordinator	Associate Professor Frances Fan
Delivered By
Level	Postgraduate

Availability

Specific information on 2027 unit availability will be available in August

Learning Outcomes

• Demonstrate a growing professional knowledge of learners and how they learn and of appropriate curriculum content and how this knowledge is applied in Early Childhood Education contexts.
• Demonstrate a developing capacity to plan, implement and assess for effective teaching and learning and for safely managing young learners and their learning environments.
• Demonstrate increasing capacity to develop and maintain effective professional relationships with the early childhood learning and teaching community to enhance learning opportunities.

Fee Information

2027 fee information will be available in August.

Requisites

Prerequisites

EPR100 Professional Experience 1|EPR200 Professional Experience 2

Concurrent Prerequisites

EDP708 Curriculum Pedagogy & Assessment in Early Childhood

Teaching

Assessment	Final Report
Timetable	View the lecture timetable | View the full unit timetable

Textbooks

Required	Required readings will be listed in the unit outline prior to the start of classes.

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