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Course and Subject Handbook 2020 Courses Undergraduate Courses Bachelor of Early Childhood Education [Exit only]

Bachelor of Early Childhood Education [Exit only]

Information valid for students commencing in 2020.

Bachelor of Early Childhood Education [Exit only]

Handbook year

2020

Course code

109510

Course type

Bachelor Degree (AQF Level 7)

Division

Tropical Environments and Societies

Award Requirements

Admission Requirements

Course pre-requisites

The Bachelor of Early Childhood Education may be awarded to students exiting the Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood Education) who have not completed 41 days or more of prescribed education placements in schools in Australia.

Minimum English language proficiency requirements

Not applicable – the course is an exit qualification only

Post admission requirements

Suitability to Work with Children Card (blue card):

This course includes prescribed professional placements that may involve contact with children under 18 years of age. Students who intend to undertake any placement in Australia are required to obtain a Suitability to Work with Children Card (which involves a criminal history check undertaken by the Queensland Police) before the start of their first placement in an Australian school setting.

Professional practice:

This course includes prescribed professional placements. Students may be required to undertake such placements away from the campus at which they are enrolled, at their own expense.

Further information about placements can be found at Coursework Enrolment Procedure.

Academic Requirements for Course Completion

Credit points

96 credit points as per course structure

Additional completion requirements

All students must successfully complete a final-year teaching performance assessment  (Graduate Teacher Performance Assessment [GTPA]) embedded in a subject and a professional placement of no less than four weeks in the final year of the degree,  prior to graduation that is shown to:

a) be a reflection of classroom teaching practice including the elements of planning, teaching, assessing and reflecting;

b) clearly assesses the content of the Graduate Teacher Standards; and

c) demonstrate an understanding of moderation processes that support consistent decision-making against achievement criteria.

The GTPA is built into course requirements and assessments.

All students must possess dispositional attributes deemed suitable for the profession of teaching.

Course learning outcomes

In the context of a 番茄社区 graduate, on successful completion of the Bachelor of Early Childhood Education, graduates will be able to:

  • Demonstrate a broad understanding of professional knowledge and practices, relevant to all domains of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers and other regulatory frameworks relevant to practice in the field of Education.
  • Critically evaluate and apply educational and developmental theories, principles, content knowledge and contemporary research to meet the needs of diverse children in positive and inclusive learning and care environments with an emphasis on the needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children.
  • Integrate curricula, pedagogical and technological knowledge and skills to plan, deliver, assess and critically reflect on learning and development with an emphasis on the needs, abilities and life-worlds, of children and communities in regional, rural, remote and tropical areas.
  • Identify, collect, analyse and critically review information to inform professional decision making and enact quality monitoring, assessment and feedback practices.
  • Establish and maintain positive, engaging, respectful and safe learning and caring environments with children, caregivers and community and collegial interactions with other professionals through the modelling of effective, context-specific oral, written and digital communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Demonstrate literacy and numeracy mastery, while applying pedagogical strategies to develop, monitor and evaluate students’ literacy and numeracy skills in a variety of curricular contexts.
  • Demonstrate an in-depth understanding and technical ability to safely, creatively and ethically integrate technology and other learning resources into curricula and pedagogical design and delivery.
  • Develop and demonstrate intercultural and ethical approaches to professional practice based on broad knowledge of legislative, regulatory and policy frameworks that address social justice, equity, diversity and sustainability issues.
  • Demonstrate initiative, judgement, professional responsibility and accountability in complex and diverse contexts with a commitment to continuing professional learning.

Course Structure

CORE SUBJECTS

Level 1

:03 Education Perspectives and Practice

:03 Science and Sustainability in Education

:03 Foundations of Language and Literacy in Education

:03 Early Childhood Education and Care 1

:03 Technologies for Early Childhood Education

:03 Early Childhood Arts Education

:03 Educational Psychology: Learners and Learning

:03 Teaching Mathematics and Numeracy in Primary and Early Childhood Settings

Level 2

:03 Health and Physical Education for Early Childhood

:03 Early Childhood Mathematics and Numeracy

:03 Early Childhood Language and Literacy

:03 Planning for Engaging Learning

:03 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education

:03 Humanities and Social Sciences for Early Childhood

:03 Science Education for Early Childhood

:03 Students with Reading Difficulties

Level 3

:03 Inclusive Education: Differentiated Learning for Students with Special Needs and Abilities

:03 English as an Additional Language/Dialect for Indigenous Learners

:03 Technologies Across the Curriculum

:03 Advanced English Education for Early Childhood

:03 Early Childhood Mathematics and Numeracy 2

:06 Reflective Teaching Cycles and Positive Learning Environments (ECE)

:03 Early Childhood Education and Care 2

Level 4

:03 Service Learning

:03 Indigenous Futures

:03 Fourth Year Professional Experience A [Australia] or :03 Fourth Year Professional Experience A [Singapore]

:06 Fourth Year Professional Experience B

:03 Leading Wellbeing and Sustainability in Learning Communities

:03 Teachers as Ethical and Collaborative Change Agents

:03 Education across Culturally Diverse Contexts

Campus

COURSE AVAILABLE AT

NOTES

Cairns

Exit only

Townsville

Exit only

Singapore

Exit only

Candidature

Expected time to complete

4 years full-time or equivalent part-time

Maximum time to complete

11 years

Maximum leave of absence

3 years

Progression

Course progression requisites

Nil

Course includes mandatory professional placement(s)

This course includes prescribed professional placements. Students may be required to undertake such placements away from the campus at which they are enrolled, at their own expense.

Further information about placements can be found at Coursework Enrolment Procedure.

To undertake the final Professional Experience, students must have completed 72 credit points of level 1, 2 and 3 subjects in this course.

Special assessment requirements

Students who do not complete the required number of days of a professional experience subject or a professional component of a subject, without the approval of the Director of Professional Experience, will be determined to have failed the subject.

Refer to Review of a Student’s Suitability to Continue a Course Involving Placement policy.

Professional accreditation requirements

Nil

Maximum allowed Pass Conceded (PC) grade

Nil

Supplementary exam for final subject

Not applicable

Credit

Eligibility

Students may apply for a credit transfer for previous tertiary study or informal and non-formal learning in accordance with the Credit Transfer Procedure.

Maximum allowed

63 credit points

Currency

Credit will be granted only for studies completed in the 10 years prior to the commencement of this course.

Expiry

Credit gained for any subject shall be cancelled 21 years after the date of the examination upon which the credit is based if, by then, the student has not completed this course.

Other restrictions

Not applicable

Award Details

Award title

BACHELOR OF EDUCATION (EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION)

Approved abbreviation

BECE

Inclusion of majors on testamur

Not applicable

Exit with lesser award

Not applicable

Course articulation

Not applicable