Professional Understandings of Quality frameworks in Early Childhood

    Unit code: ECE1002 | Study level: Undergraduate
    Credit points
    12
    (Generally, 1 credit = 10 hours of classes and independent study.)
    Location
    City Campus
    Footscray Nicholson
    Footscray Park
    Online Real Time
    St Albans
    Prerequisites
    N/A
    Overview
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    Overview

    Legal, ethical and quality frameworks inform, guide, constrain and expand professional work in early childhood education. This unit will introduce students to the National Quality Framework and its laws, regulations and curriculum documents, and to other rights-based and ethical charters utilised by the early childhood education sector to guide decision making in practice. These frameworks are the building blocks of early childhood education practice. This unit will support students to develop a basic conceptual knowledge of these documents and use them to make decisions in a range of early childhood contexts and scenarios. Through this unit, students will begin informed and reflective educative practices as they move through their course.

    Learning Outcomes

    On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:

    1. Determine necessary information to support decision making in the law, regulations, rights and ethics frameworks, and child safe standards used within the early childhood sector.
    2. Develop a conceptual understanding of the curriculum frameworks used in early childhood education: the Early Years Learning Framework and the Victorian Early Years Learning and Development Framework.
    3. Apply the 5 learning outcomes in the Early Years Learning Framework and the Victorian Early Years Learning and Development Framework to making decisions in a variety of early childhood contexts.

    Study as a single unit

    This unit can be studied on its own, without enrolling in a full degree.

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    Assessment

    For Melbourne campuses

    Assessment type: Poster
    |
    Grade: 30%
    Communicate your understanding of the Early Years Learning Framework and the Victorian Early Years Learning and Development Framework
    Assessment type: Exercise
    |
    Grade: 40%
    Use the curriculum frameworks to analyse early childhood education scenarios
    Assessment type: Test
    |
    Grade: 30%
    Multiple choice quiz: Use frameworks to find answers to dilemmas.

    Required reading

    Required resources will be provided on VUCollaborate.

    As part of a course

    This unit is studied as part of the following course(s):

    Bachelor of Early Childhood Education
    EBEC | Bachelor degree | Duration: 3 years
    Bachelor of Early Childhood Education and Leadership
    EBCL | Bachelor degree | Duration: 4 years
    Bachelor of Early Childhood Teaching
    EBEI | Bachelor degree | Duration: 3 years
    Undergraduate Certificate in Early Childhood Education
    EUEC | Undergraduate certificate | Duration: 0.5 years

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