Diploma of Early Childhood Education & Care
Overview
This course program helps you to focus on skills for the role of an early childhood educator responsible for implementing education and care services. Students shall be taught both practical and theoretical skills to implement an approved learning curriculum and framework while adhering to the requirements of the Education and Care Services National Regulations and also the National Quality Standard.
In addition to boosting your skills in Education and Care Services, the course program gives you an overall learning experience by providing a real-life environment. Through periodic On-campus sessions, you can master your soft skills while working with education services for children and get hands-on working knowledge.
Course program
1. Learning
Core Units: 24
- Work legally and ethically
- Develop cultural competence
- Ensure the health and safety of children
- Provide care for children
- Promote and provide healthy food and drinks
- Provide care for babies and toddlers
- Develop positive and respectful relationships with children
- Use an approved learning framework to guide practice
- Establish and maintain a safe and healthy environment for children
- Foster the holistic development and well-being of the child in early childhood
- Nurture creativity in children
- Facilitate compliance in an education and care setting
- Establish and implement plans for developing cooperative behaviour
- Implement strategies for the inclusion of all children
- Promote children’s agency
- Analyse information to inform learning
- Design and implement the curriculum to foster children’s learning and development
- Embed sustainable practices in service operations
- Work in partnership with families to provide appropriate education and care for children
- Identify and respond to children and young people at risk
- Provide an emergency first aid response in an education and care setting
- Promote Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander cultural safety
- Maintain work health and safety
Elective Units: 5
- Support the holistic development of children in early childhood
- Provide experiences to support children’s play and learning
- Use information about children to inform practice
- Lead the work team
- Work with diverse peoples
2. Topics covered
This Diploma course program focuses on overall child education and skill development. A wide variety of topics are covered with a focus on person-centric support while also developing and successfully maintaining care services for children at an early stage of education.
As part of our commitment to holistic training, we provide our enrollees with extensive training in both curriculum and personal development skills through the following:
- Developing a cultural competence
- Ensuring the health and safety of children
- Providing care for children
- Promoting healthy food and diets for children
- Maintaining comprehensive care for babies and toddlers
- Developing a motivational and positive relationship with children
- Following govt. Approved frameworks for maintaining a safe and healthy environment for children
- Nurture creativity in children through mental development activities while following basic guidelines
- Establishing and implementing plans for developing the cooperative behaviour of all children
- Designing and implementing a curriculum to foster children’s learning and development and complying with sustainable practices in the service operations
- Working in partnership with families to provide appropriate education and care for childhood development
- Identifying and responding to children and young people at risk on an emotional, mental or physical level
- Provide an emergency first aid response in an education and care setting
- Promote Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander cultural safety guidelines
- Maintain work health and safety according to best practices
3. Career outcomes
After completing this course,
- Trainees shall be qualified as an Early Childhood Educators with a career opportunity in the education sector for Childhood Development
- Working with organizations or non-profits for the overall development of children with special needs
- Students can work as independent contractors for individual care and support needed by children during their early development phase
4. Prerequisites
These are the Eligibility factors for a Certificate III in Individual Support:
- Proficient English skills and an IELTS score of 5.5 or passing an English Exam conducted by the institution for International students
- Minimum age of 18 years for Australian Students and 20 years for International Students with a minimum of 10-year schooling
- A valid Provide First Aid certificate, Department of Communities & Social Inclusion (DCSI) and passing a screening Check for working with children including a physical fitness test.
- Enrollees are expected to hold a valid Child Safe Environments Certificate prior to attending professional practice placement upon successful completion of this Diploma Course.
5. Duration and study mode
The course duration for a Diploma in Early Childhood Education & Care is 365 days or 1 year which comprises of different study modes, both in-campus or off-campus and self-learning mode with an online Education Counselor to help you individually.
| Study Mode: | Face to Face and Online | |
|---|---|---|
| Duration: | 6 Month | |
| Course fee: | Domestic: $4000 | International: $8000 |