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CRICOS course code: 085218A

Level of study: Career Based/Vocational

Summary

Progress your career in early childhood education and care with advanced skills in planning and management

When you complete the Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care, you’ll be able to work at a senior level in a variety of children’s service environments. This course is based on the National Quality Framework and Early Years Learning Framework and has an emphasis on play-based learning.

Throughout the program, you’ll learn more about best practice and quality assurance, planning for children with additional needs, networking, effective communication, family partnerships, childhood development (aesthetic, creative, physical), music programs, and health and safety.

Experienced teachers, who are experts in the field, will guide you through the program, which can be delivered online, on site, or as a traineeship to fit in with your work or lifestyle.

Once complete, this qualification can provide a pathway to Chisholm's Bachelor of Early Learning in partnership with La Trobe University.

Unit code Unit Description
CHCECE024 Design and implement the curriculum to foster children’s learning and development
CHCECE017 Foster the holistic development and wellbeing of the child in early childhood
HLTAID001 Provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation
CHCECE018 Nurture creativity in children
HLTAID004 Provide an emergency first aid response in an education and care setting
CHCECE021 Implement strategies for the inclusion of all children
CHCECE022 Promote children’s agency
CHCECE023 Analyse information to inform learning

Career pathways

• Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care

Possible job outcome

• occasional care coordinator
• nanny
• family day care coordinator
• early childhood centre educator

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