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Level 6
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15 Credits
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0.125 EFTS
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Delivery type:Online
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Course duration: 16 weeks
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Course cost:$760 NZ Domestic
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Workload - Approximately 10 hours per week
In this online ECE course, you will explore the theories of learning and development relevant to social and emotional competence and how these inform data gathering/assessment and teaching strategies and approaches.
This exploration includes analysis of the impact of diverse social-cultural influences including differing home situations, socio-economic backgrounds, and linguistic and cultural diversities on infants’, toddlers’, and young children’s social and emotional development. There is a focus on teaching strategies and approaches to guide and support infants’, toddlers’, and young children’s developing social and emotional competence.
Learners who successfully complete this online course will be able to:
- Explore the diverse socio-cultural factors and theories that inform our understanding of infants’, toddlers’, and young children’s learning and development and be able to relate this to their developing social and emotional competency skills.
- Examine the use of appropriate data gathering and assessment methods to assess and analyse infants’, toddlers’, and young children’s developing social and emotional competence.
- Analyse a range of teaching strategies that can be put in place to guide and support infants’, toddlers’, and young children’s social and emotional competence.
Assessment
100% internal assessment
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.
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.