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Unit of Study TCHR2011 - Professional Experience: Early Childhood II (2025)

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  • Enrolment information

    Students enrol by the date specified by the Professional Experience Team to ensure a placement can be arranged. Students are to provide evidence of compliance for all placement requirements prior to attending professional placement. Full details are available at: www.scu.edu.au/education/education-profession/professional-experience/

Unit description

Focuses on students developing links between research, theory, and practice in early childhood education. Students will build on the development of personal and professional attributes and abilities for effective interactions with all children and adults in the lives of those children. This professional experience unit involves 15 days of placement in an infant and toddler setting (birth to 2 years).      

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Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

demonstrate ethical and professional conduct in the professional experience setting with commitment to young children, their families and engagement with the early childhood community

create, develop, implement and document early childhood educational programs for children with sound links to understandings of children’s learning, child development, theories of learning, understandings of diverse families and communities and research

demonstrate understanding of professional skills to support children’s pro-social development and competencies

create, design and assess flexible, healthy, sustainable environments that support children’s learning

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