CHC52021 Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care
CHC52021 Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care
COURSE OVERVIEW This qualification reflects the role of educators in early childhood education and care who work in regulated children’s education and care services in Australia. Educators at this level are responsible for designing and implementing curriculum that meets the requirements of an approved learning framework and for maintaining compliance…
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
COURSE OVERVIEW
This qualification reflects the role of educators in early childhood education and care who work in regulated children’s education and care services in Australia. Educators at this level are responsible for designing and implementing curriculum that meets the requirements of an approved learning framework and for maintaining compliance in other areas of service operations. They use specialised knowledge and analyse and apply theoretical concepts to diverse work situations. They may have responsibility for supervision of volunteers or other educators.
Early childhood educators work in long day care centres, family day care, pre-schools or kindergartens.
Training Arrangements
Class sessions are planned to ensure that student have a mixture of practical and theoretical components and those classes cater for a wide variety of learning styles. Additionally, workplace practices and environments will be regularly simulated and used to conduct skills based assessments in accordance with unit requirements.
WMIT organises face to face training of 20 hours per week, all the international student must attend the classes to comply with student visa conditions.
Homework tasks may include research, readings from related textbooks and continuing to work on assessment tasks.
Students are provided with the Learner Guides for each unit to students to support their learning (these are included in the course fees).
Placement Arrangements
Work Placement is an important component of the qualification that provides students with the opportunity to apply skills and knowledge in early childhood education and care setting. Students are required to complete a minimum 280 hours of work placement in a regulated Children’s Education and Care Services Centre in Australia for successful completion of the course.
This work placement is only to be conducted in a regulated Children’s Education and Care Services Centre that has entered into a work placement agreement with WMIT.
The students will be provided with Skills Workbook containing assessment tasks and activities to be completed during work placement and the students will need to complete the workplace tasks. WMIT trainer/assessor will visit and observe students in the workplace to determine the students’ competency in the practical component of the course. WMIT trainer/assessor will act as a liaison between the workplace, workplace supervisors and WMIT through emails, calls and compulsory visits.
REQUIREMENTS
- Holds a CHC30121 Certificate III in Early Childhood Education and Care OR CHC30113 Certificate III in Early Childhood Education and Care.
- Completion of Australian Year 12 or equivalent.
- IELTS (Academic) band score 5.5 or equivalent score in other English tests including, PTE, TOEFL, and CAE.
- 18 years or older at commencement of course.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
The student must have basic computer skills to use word processing software like Microsoft Word and using internet effectively for research.
WMIT will conduct LLN assessment of the student at the time of orientation to identify the support required by the students. This support will enable students to complete qualification successfully in required time.
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