Ready to Teach Early Childhood: Practicum 5e
Duration:
1 Teaching Period
Unit Code:
EDU40006
Contact Hours:
Recommended 10 hours of theory study per week plus 20 days of placement
Placement
Type: Early Childhood Setting
Age Group: 3–5 years of age
Duration: 20 days
Minimum Attendance: 7.5 hours per day excluding breaks. Must include 5 hours contact time with children and 2–3 hours of planning or non-contact time per day
About this unit
This unit aims to prepare pre-service teachers to take a leadership role in the design, implementation and evaluation of curriculum for children aged three – five years and assess learning. Building on previous studies, experience and learning, students will focus their direction towards the role of a teacher in an early childhood setting. In this unit students build more advanced skills and gain additional knowledge for curriculum decision-making, including using a variety of means of assessing children’s interests, skills, knowledge and learning.
Content
- Learning content/subject discipline areas for early childhood education
- Health and safety considerations
- Diversity, difference and inclusion
- Designing learning environments
- Organising the curriculum (including routines, transitions, timing, choices)
- Documenting planning decisions
- Assessing children’s learning
- Transition to school
- Inquiry-based and problem-solving approaches
- Diversity and individual differences
- Maintaining safe and challenging learning environments
- Tools and practices for assessing, recording and reporting on children’s learning
- The use of ICT to communicate and to plan, implement and evaluate curriculum
- Code of Ethics
- Graduate early childhood teachers standards
- Advocacy
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