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Unit of Study TCHR3004 - Leadership and Advocacy in Early Childhood (2021)

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Unit description

Provides students with an understanding of the responsibilities and challenges of being a professional in early childhood and models of leadership and management of early childhood services. Students also develop skills required to participate successfully and effectively as a leader and manager.

Unit content

Module 1: Leadership management and early childhood education and care
Defining leadership: roles; relationships and responsibilities
Defining management: roles; relationships and responsibilities
Developing a personal philosophy of leadership
Establishing a leadership identity and leadership style

Module 2: Advocacy and early childhood
Defining advocacy
Understanding the role of advocacy in early childhood
Advocacy in early childhood: history; present and future

Module 3: Transition to the profession as an educational leader

Defining the educational leader role: relationships and responsibilities

Dimensions of the educational leader: expectations and ethics

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Location Domestic International
Gold Coast
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Online
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Learning outcomes

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 knowledge of the key principles of leadership and management in practice in early childhood education and care services and settings underpinned by theoretical and practical perspectives on administration, management and leadership

demonstrate an understanding of how to build supportive and collaborative environments for children, parents, community and staff

critically reflect on the role that advocacy plays in early childhood education (locally, nationally and globally) and identify the skills that a strong advocate for the profession should display

Demonstrate understanding regarding the role of the Educational Leader: including the relationships, responsibilities, expectations and ethics.

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