Overview
Early Childhood education and care services have an important role in ensuring that Australia’s vision for all children to thrive in their early years will be accomplished. Enacting curriculum with children to ensure their holistic development requires thoughtful decision making that draws on professional knowledge, knowledge of children and local contexts, and understandings of the relevant learning framework. As you examine approaches to curriculum that are responsive to children, you will consider also how the way we view children impacts our work with them. You will research and apply strategies for gathering data about children’s learning with particular attention given to sharing information with stakeholders. You will analyse the learning of children to document their curiosities, capabilities, discoveries, knowledge skills, theories and involvement in learning. Drawing on your engagement with observing, assessing and documenting learning, you will reflect critically to determine implications for your future learning and practice and your responsibilities in relation to child safety.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
There are no requisites for this unit.
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 2 - 2026
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure - Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure - International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback - Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from Student feedback
Tutorials
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