Professional Practice for Early Childhood Education and Care

This includes exploring strategies for effective communication and building respectful and reciprocal relationships with diverse groups, including young children, in an early childhood setting. You also explore the broader early childhood context and its diverse early childhood services and philosophies and continue to build their competency in te reo Māori me ona tikanga, with reference to local iwi and hapu. You will be required to apply this learning in your professional practice with young children.

Students who successfully complete this course will be able to

• Use and evaluate culturally responsive approaches to build relationships and communicate effectively in an early childhood community.
• Demonstrate understanding of the role of kaiako in relation to children’s rights and fostering children’s social competence.
• Manage own health, wellbeing and professional development as a kaiako in an early childhood setting.
• Demonstrate understanding of diverse philosophical and cultural early childhood contexts in Aotearoa/ New Zealand.
• Develop, apply and evaluate a personal philosophy of early childhood practice.
• Use te reo Māori me ona tikanga, with reference to local iwi and hapu.

Assessment

This course is 100% internally assessed.

Textbooks

No textbooks are required for this course.

Computer and internet requirements

This course is delivered online, so you will access your course material and submit assessments online. Our online courses may include reading, videos, quizzes or activities, and you may need to download content.

For online learning you need:

• Access to a laptop or desktop computer
• Reliable internet and data plan.  

If you are unsure if your current computer, Windows or internet access will allow you to study online, please contact us before applying to enrol. 

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How to enrol

Before enrolling in this course you need to:

• choose the qualification you will study the course under
• check the order that courses in the qualification should be studied in the Qualification Structure table. This is in the Choose courses and apply tab on the qualification page.