Course overview
This professional experience course builds capacities for working effectively within an education setting for children prior to schooling.
- Module 1
- Module 2
- Module 3
Course learning outcomes
- Build effective professional relationships and dispositions with children, families, colleagues and other professionals in an early years setting
- Apply knowledge and skills with creativity, initiative and a high level of personal autonomy, accountability and respect while working and leading in a team setting
- Apply an advanced body of knowledge of contemporary theories and practice as they engage with curriculum documents, children, families, colleagues, community and other professionals to implement democratic inquiry-based pedagogies in an early years setting
- Design and evaluate the use of pedagogical documentation to demonstrate children's learning and provide evidence of developing practices as a teacher
- Demonstrate developing capacity to exercise aspects of leadership which demonstrate a commitment to collaborative leadership and teamwork and evaluate their own skills and knowledge relevant to early childhood leadership theory and practice
- Reflect on teaching and learning experiences in the light of professional standards, policies, legal and ethical guidelines for the profession and developing beliefs of the role of early-years educators