Overview 2024
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Your studies will embed indigenous worldviews, education for sustainability, and health and wellbeing. You’ll learn to recognise how relationships with self, others, cultures, and places are critical to teaching and learning with children. Graduates are inclusive education practitioners with specific capacities to lead with play-based pedagogies, and to work with complex communities.
Learning Outcomes
Career outcomes
Graduates of this course will be qualified to respond to opportunities and challenges in a range of formal and informal early learning contexts for children Birth to 8 years of age. You'll develop essential knowledge and skills to evaluate professional practice and to design creative and evidence-led responses to changing educational contexts and learners’ needs.
Professional Accreditation
The Graduate Certificate in Early Childhood Education is an externally accredited degree.
The course is accredited by Australian Children's Education & Care Quality Authority (ACECQA).
Graduates may meet the requirements for registration with ACECQA . There may be additional requirements for registration beyond the completion of the course.
For further registration requirements, please visit the ACECQA website.
If you have any queries about the accreditation process, please contact us for further information.
Course structure
The Graduate Certificate in Early Childhood Education requires the completion of:
- 50 credit points of Core units and;
- 60 days of Professional Experience.
You will normally complete your first Professional Experience placement in your first semester, and your remaining two in subsequent semesters. Your Professional Experience is completed in three units:
- EDP702 Professional Experience 6 - 8 years
- EDP703 Professional Experience 3 - 5 years
- EDP704 Professional Experience Birth - 2 years
You can find out more information about the requirements and processes for Professional Experience placements on the Professional Experience website.
Core
This unit supports professionals undertaking a small-scale systematic investigation into an aspect of learning, or development within a learning context or setting. It aims to enhance students' knowledge of key theoretical perspectives, along with their skills of practitioner research, data…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Online | Semester 2 | ||||
View all details for EDP705 Negotiated Study in Early Childhood
This unit connects theory, policy and practice concerning leadership and advocacy in early childhood. Topics will include contemporary models that foster effective leadership, constructive management strategies and considered ways to promote advocacy in early childhood. Students will also have opportunities…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Online | Semester 2 | ||||
View all details for EDP706 Leadership and Advocacy in Early Childhood
This unit will focus on conceptual development and pedagogical content knowledge for teaching children fundamental aspects of literacy, mathematics and science. A range of play-based strategies for supporting the development of viewing, reading, writing, and speaking and listening skills will…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Online | Semester 1 | ||||
View all details for EDP707 Literacy, Mathematics and Science in Early Childhood
This unit is designed for students enrolled in the Bachelor of Education Graduate Certificate (Early Childhood), specialising in teaching children aged birth to 8 years. This unit interrogates current early childhood curricula and pedagogies. Topics include planning using relevant state,…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Online | Semester 1 | ||||
| Online | Semester 2 | ||||
View all details for EDP708 Curriculum Pedagogy and Assessment in Early Childhood
Professional Experience
Within the Graduate Certificate in Education (Early Childhood) course Professional Experience (PE) is designed to enable graduates to further demonstrate their practice in a school context. This placement involves active observation, and participation, and increased engagement in teaching and learning…
Credit Points: 0
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Online | Semester 1 | ||||
| Online | Semester 2 | ||||
View all details for EDP702 Professional Experience 6 - 8 years
Professional Experience in the Graduate Certificate in Education (Early Childhood) course is designed to enable graduates to further demonstrate their practice in either a child care and education or Kindergarten (or equivalent) context. This PE involves active observation and participation…
Credit Points: 0
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Online | Semester 1 | ||||
| Online | Semester 2 | ||||
View all details for EDP703 Professional Experience 3 - 5 years
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…
Credit Points: 0
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Online | Semester 1 | ||||
| Online | Semester 2 | ||||
View all details for EDP704 Professional Experience Birth - 2 years
Entry requirements
For Domestic students
Applicants with higher education study
To be eligible for an offer, you must have completed:
- An Initial Teacher’s Education (ITE) degree at Bachelor’s level or equivalent qualification such as a Master of Teaching
Articulation
Graduated students will be eligible for direct entry to E6J Graduate Diploma of Education [proposed new course] or Master of Education with credit for 50cp.
Fees & scholarships
Domestic students
Cost shouldn’t get in the way of you studying.
If you’re a domestic student, you may be eligible for a Commonwealth Supported Place in this course. This means your fees will be subsidised by the Australian Government. You’ll only need to pay the student contribution amount for each unit you study within the course.
You may also be able to defer payment of the student contribution amount by accessing a HECS-HELP loan from the Government. If eligible, you’ll only have to pay your tuition fees once you start earning above a specific amount.
Further information is available at Scholarships, fees and costs.
Student contributionStudent contribution amounts are charged for each unit of study. This means that how much you’ll pay will depend on which units you choose. Find out more about student contribution amounts.
Further informationDetailed fee information for domestic students is available at Scholarships, fees and costs, including additional information in relation to the compulsory Student Services and Amenities Fee (SSAF).
Scholarships
For information on general scholarships available at the University of Tasmania, please visit the scholarships website.
How can we help?
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