Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care
Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care
Passionate about enhancing and influencing the lives of young children? Early childhood teaching is a highly respected and sort after qualification. This qualification gives you the knowledge to perform work-supporting children’s wellbeing, learning and development in early learning centres and junior primary classes. This course prepares graduates with both the…
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
Passionate about enhancing and influencing the lives of young children?
Early childhood teaching is a highly respected and sort after qualification. This qualification gives you the knowledge to perform work-supporting children’s wellbeing, learning and development in early learning centres and junior primary classes. This course prepares graduates with both the practical and theoretical skills to work in a variety of disciplines including; day care, preschool, integrated child and family services, and early intervention services.
To work in childcare you must have, or be actively working towards, at least a Certificate III Qualification.
The Education and Care Services National Regulations state under Section 126: Centre-based services – The qualification requirements for educators at center-based services for children preschool age or under are – at least 50 per cent of the educators who are required to meet the relevant educator to child ratios for the service must have, or be actively working towards, at least an approved diploma level education and care qualification. Section 128: Family Day Care coordinator qualifications state: A family day care coordinator must have an approved diploma level education and care qualification.
What You’ll Learn
• Work with other staff to ensure a safe environment is created within the team, understanding and developing cultural • competence and maintain work health and safety
• Provide care for children, babies and toddlers while creating a positive and respectful relationships with children
• Use and approved learning framework to guide practice to support children to connect with their world while you establish and maintain a safe and healthy environment for children
• Facilitate compliance in an education and care services, establish and implement plans for developing cooperative behaviour and implement strategies for the inclusion of all children
• Analyse information to inform learning and design and implement the curriculum to foster children’s learning and development
Possible Career Outcomes
• Early Childhood Educator
• Early Childhood Centre Manager
• Child Care Worker
REQUIREMENTS
Students must provide academic evidence of satisfactory completion of Year 12 or equivalent.
English Language Requirements
Student must provide evidence of attaining an overall IELTS score of 6 bands or equivalent scores on a similar test (such as PTE etc). OR
Student must have attained at least Upper Intermediate Level of English and must provide evidence of the same before commencing the course. OR
Student must have completed Certificate III in Spoken and Written English. OR
Student must satisfy the above requirement by successfully completing LLN test or English Placement test.
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION
Axis Institute is a nationally accredited Registered Training Organisation (RTO) based in Brisbane. Students can choose from its courses in accounting, business, childcare, hospitality, management and information technology, and will be taught by industry-experienced trainers. Axis Institute is home to well-equipped classrooms and excellent teaching facilities.
