CHCECE056 - Work effectively in children’s education and care

For Melbourne campuses

Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce & extend knowledge and skill competence within set & controlled parameters in accordance with each unit’s learning outcomes & performance criteria requirements, including the setting of work based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines.

Students will be expected to demonstrate the following required skills:
• access, interpret and use information about employment and service procedures in children’s education and care from three different sources
• use effective planning, organisational and communication to complete five different children’s education and care daily work activities.

Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:
• role characteristics, boundaries and responsibilities for key job roles in children’s education and care in the following sectors:
• early childhood
• out of school hours care
• education support
• sources of information on employment in children’s education and care:
• employer associations
• professional associations
• staff handbooks
• trade unions
• purpose and requirements of the National Quality Framework:
• purpose of National Law and National Regulations
• interrelationships between National Law and National Regulations and the National Quality Framework
• requirements of each quality area in the National Quality Standard
• definition of the assessment and quality rating process
• definition of an approved learning framework
• types of service policies and procedures that relate to general work practices in children’s education and care:
• communication and reporting
• employment conditions
• personal presentation and uniform standards
• procedures and expectations for work role activities
• the role of collaboration in providing quality education and care
• foundational knowledge of child developmental theory and early childhood learning
• reflective practice:
• what is reflection
• why and how educators use reflection
• what is meaningful reflection
• communication techniques and how these are applied in a children’s education and care context:
• active listening
• body language
• conflict resolution
• methods for conveying information clearly and concisely, both oral and written
• open and closed questioning
• verbal and non-verbal cues
• voice tonality
• importance of own well-being:
• physical health
• mental health
• social and emotional well-being
• access to supports.